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Talking of blank firing........
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04-14-2010 05:59 AM
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I have never been lucky enough to find a set even in all the years of getting quantities of surplus brens and equipment through.Or seen any on tender lists.Never say never.
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stencollector has a kit I believe.
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I seem to recall that the L4 blank barrel idea of the high tensile 1/4" bolt through the barrel, ahead of the gas port, came from the Canadian BFA barrel.
I ask about this kit because a film props supplier asked us about the adapted magazine dimensions
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I seem to recall that the L4 blank barrel idea of the high tensile 1/4" bolt through the barrel, ahead of the gas port, came from the
Canadian BFA barrel.
I ask about this kit because a film props supplier asked us about the adapted magazine dimensions
The canadian BFA barrel has 2 hardened steel pins through the throat of the barrel.
I'll see if I have any dimensions on the mags...
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I have the barrel and two or three mags with the inserts. The pins (to prevent the chambering of a live round) were a modification after the fact. My kit, nor any of the other barrels I have seen around, had the mod done. The few opportunities I had to try it out, they worked just fine.
If no-one else beats me to the punch, I'll show some pics in a couple weeks when I get back to civilization.
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I've got about 3000 rds of theCanadian crimped blanks. I'd sure like to find a couple of the blank magazines to be able to use them.
Sarge
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Watch this space Sarge.............. It looks as though SC will show us all the shortened magazine detail.
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Gents
I have an entire chest of 12 of the special magazines. I obtained one many many years ago and a machinist friend of mine made a dozen of the inserts for me. I may have some more floating around here in the shed. If anyone wants one of the mags I can get another run of inserts made.
We used them with various types of short blanks with a shot out barrel and some internally threaded restrictor's.
Gary
The greatest LMG to ever see service in the British Army...........................
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While on the subject of blanks, in Australia, preparing to go to Malaya at the Shoalwater Bay training area (Ugh.....) with 8 RAR, (where we were going to use pooled pom Ordnance stockpiles) we had 7.62mm L4A2's with .303" barrels BUT, the chamber area had been bored out and a 7.62mm chamber insert had been pressed into place.
The Mk2 type .303" barrels were painted yellow at the muzzle and had a bolt to choke off and divert the gas in the usual way. The muzzles retained the cone type flash eliminators of course. I understand that these were a proper ADE/Lithgow modification.
Any Australians aware of this Aussie mod to use shot-out .303" barrels as BFA's for the old, early 7.62mm L4's. Waste not, want not I suppose
Got any old EMEI's on these Son?
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