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BUT, I still say that it's simpler to modify ONE mag catch than six or twelve magazines. It's simplcity itself to modify the mag catch. Silver solder a 3 or 4mm thick piece of steel across the front nose and file it to form a bulbous nose shape. Gently file, fit, file, fit, file, fit....., carefully as you go and it'll all fall in place. Believe me, they didn't spend too much time and money on the conversion. Over the next few days I'll photograph one and get some whizz-kid to put it up.
On second thoughts, given the total area of the block of steel you're going to use, soft solder will probably suffice.......
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07-09-2013 03:46 AM
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I'm with you in spirit Peter - really I am, but even by your own description, the process is a matter "art" not science. Lots of grinding, and shaping in an attempt to get it right. And if you miss - you've just killed you mag release (or bought yourself a bunch more grinding). Not as easy as slapping a flat piece of metal on the front of a few mags. (how many mags can you have?) At least on my rifle, the mag is about 1/8 of an inch too short, which means I'd have to put a rather large chunk of metal on the front of the mag catch and really work it in. At this point, I'm inclined to see how the first mag I epoxyed the piece of metal works and then maybe look towards soft soldering or something on the other two mags I have.
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I'm reminded what my instructor in watch school told us. Alter or fit the part to the watch not the other way round.
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Wise man that instructor Gary!
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Anyone have any 8mm mags for sale ?
I have two, but could use a few more...
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I have a few extra ZB-39 mags. PM me if that's what you're looking for.
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Post no 10. [/quote]a LARGE amount of 7.92mm ZB guns without magazines were captured by S/African forces during a raid into German West African territory during the war[/quote]
Sorry to go back that far, but I only read this today. Could you provide more detail please of where and when and who? Or references I could look up? I would really like to know more about this.
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Several hundreds were captured and a request went back to the UK for magazines to use with them. But after a bit of too-ing and fro-ing with correspondence, they were told that Canada was in the process of tooling up for 7.92mm magazines that were made to be interchangeable (?) and that was the end of the matter. Whether they got the Canadian magazines or just got extra supplies of standard Brens is unknown
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Thank you. Any detail of the place of capture, any dates, names, so I can do some research about the operation? Looks like fascinating history.
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Thinking about this today and my records aren't available at the moment. But the South Africal wartime archives will be the place to go to find out more, for the benefit of everyone. I feel sure that the incursion took place in what is now Namibia - if that was once German territory.
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