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"French"-"Broken" Sten Stocks
Last edited by Flying10uk; 01-01-2017 at 07:49 AM.
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01-01-2017 06:58 AM
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De-militarised in order that he can possess them?
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I'm trying to set up a link to the eBay page but is proving difficult at moment.
Managed it.
Last edited by Flying10uk; 01-01-2017 at 07:52 AM.
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It would still fit on the gun and be somewhat usable. You could still shoulder the gun with it.
It’s probably the type that uses a small pin to hold the button/key on. Not really a robust method of attachment. The pin could easily be sheared. Also, the shaft of the button/key is weakened by the hole for the pin.
There are probably a large number of them because the pin attachment method makes them more prone to failure than the other types.
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It just seems odd that the same vendor has had a number of these stocks, all from France, and all with a broken button/key.
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The butt would simply rotate about the return spring cap axis Vince. And as a result would become semi-uncontrollable in my opinion. But regardless of this, it is a simple fix that'd take all of 15mts to do including turning up a few buttons, countersink hole, fit button shaft and braze
As an afterthought - and because it was designed by the arch genius Harold Turpin I wouldn't mind betting the the actual button was a standard stock off-the-shelf diameter to boot
Last edited by Peter Laidler; 01-01-2017 at 11:13 AM.
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Is it the same vendor who claimed he found it at a market stall in France?
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I think so. Perhaps the market trader had some sort of bazaar accident and somehow managed to break off all the button/keys???
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Yeah. He’s probably “romancing” them. Some dealers do that here too. Make up a story to add some romance to whatever they are selling.
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He doesn't seem to have anyone interested yet but it does look like a genuine original example and a fairly simple repair job to make it usable. I did a thread some months back on this type of repair. Here in the U.K. there are some/a few fake or reproduction Sten stocks appearing on some of the U.K. deactivated Stens for sale. I believe that some of these repro Sten stocks originate from India, but the "give away" that they are repro is the laser cut plates that make up the assembly. The "Faker" has even reproduced the makings on the stock in the case of the fake stock which came with the last U.K. deactivated Sten that I purchased. This was despite me telling the dealer that I didn't want a reproduction stock and he insisting that it wasn't. In the end I went and purchased another genuine stock separately. For something like this a reproduction item does nothing for me, in interest terms.
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