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    Sten barrel nut ?

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    What Mk of barrel nut is this, I have had a quick look in The Sten Machine Carbine book but din`t see this exact one. If it is in there if someone could tell me which page, it looks similar to the Mk2.

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    A Mk1 barrel nut missing the middle row of holes! These do crop up occasionally on Mk2's and 5's, they're not listed/illustrated as such in any of the parts lists. I would imagine that they are a bit of a hybrid in a concession granted to a manufacturer '.....in order to make the best use of his existing facilities or materials' as the wording used to go. They're all made in two parts and that manufacturer might have had a stock of wrongly pre-punched sleeve parts. So he puts in a request for a concession. The Ordnance Board 'small claims committee' (don't ask why it was called that.....) investigate and come up with a quick yes or no.

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    Thanks Peter
    I might buy it as a manufacturing concession oddity! so it is a Mk1 I did think it might have been a MK2 type as it has 6 holes around the front and not 3 ?

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    If you buy one of every manufacturing concession for Stens, you'd probably have a warehouse full of bits! I seem to remember that there was a whole page of agreed manufacturing acceptances or allowances for the trigger mech cover alone!

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    Quote Originally Posted by boristhepig View Post
    Thanks Peter
    I might buy it as a manufacturing concession oddity! so it is a Mk1 I did think it might have been a MK2 type as it has 6 holes around the front and not 3 ?
    If you succeed in getting BRP Guns to ship one to the UKicon, please let me know as I'd like one as well.
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    get someone in the usa to buy it for you and post it on

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    Quote Originally Posted by philb View Post
    get someone in the usa to buy it for you and post it on
    You would be asking someone to violate US federal law...

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    Agreed unfortunately, this would need I think (rather ridiculously) to be shipped via an FFD ... Or is shipping of this class of component just prohibited completely now from a civilian perspective??

    Forum rules preclude a long rant about US federal firearm paranoia!

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    Marstar in Canadaicon - who will ship to the UKicon - have some Sten parts:

    Marstar Canada - Parts
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    If your country requires an import permit, Marstar Canadaicon will only send the parts after they receive a copy of the permit.

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