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    mg08 parts

    I guess what I am seeing the pics is that I need more than I originally thought.
    I need to fabricate or buy a repro or original (ha ha), of the locking bracket for the front of the sled as well I can see i am also missing the block on the bottom of the gun that marries with the sled to allow it to swing side to side. as well as the top semi circle sled bracket for the gun.

    help even with good pics would be appreciated.

    thx Sean

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    mg08 parts

    Ok so I have figured out the problem with the sled locking mechanism and solved that problem. I think the biggest issue I will have is finding / fabricating the bracket for the top of the sled to hold the gun.

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    MG08 fittings

    Highburn I have just seen your posts.
    You are fundamentally correct. The yoke and the traversing gear are the 2 bits reqired, and often the most common in absence!!
    Over the past 2 months there have been on ebay repro ypoke straps for the sled. Complete traverse gear assemblies are hard to find. Please email me mark.finneran@hotmail.co.uk
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    Seeking items for the German MG08, MG08/15. LMG08/15 & T Gewehr.

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    Seeking items for the German MG08, MG08/15. LMG08/15 & T Gewehr.

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    MG08 team.

    who says the Germans do not have a sense of humour!!!
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    When I was a kid back in the early 60's We used to go to the ball diamond in a small Ontario town where my cousins lived. There was an MG08 sled mount that sat behind home plate, I spent many an hour
    hosing down the enemy trenches. I often wonder about it's fate, probably the scrap yard. In recent years I purchased, at a flea market in northern Ontario a wooden stocked MG08 on a bipod with a stencil on the water jacket that read CANADIAN WAR TROPHY 148th Battalion it had formerly resided in a now closed Legion, I moved it on to a friend but would now like to get it back I heard it said some years ago that the Germans claimed that the Britishicon fought for honor but the Canadians fought for souvenirs seems plausible when you see the mg's that still grace small town squares and cenotaphs

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    War Trophies

    Actually the comment about Canadian War Trophies has some weight. Statistically Canadaicon was by far the nation with the most ''bring backs''. Canada still has all the records of where the items went so MGs artillery pieces etc to schools, Legions etc is a great research project all on its own. Like UKicon, regrettably Royal Legions are suffering, even before COVID so historic pieces are indeed in danger.

    Seeking items for the German MG08, MG08/15. LMG08/15 & T Gewehr.

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