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| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38110 | 15 Mar 17 09:22 |
| LWMan. The 1/2 liter, 500ml variety. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38110 | 14 Mar 17 20:35 |
| John I hope those were not one gallon plastic bottles of drinking water that Gumby had to drink ... cool magazines. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 38110 | 14 Mar 17 14:47 |
Magazines are easier to fabricate thru repetition. Fortunately I hope to be making Vickers guns in the future so this was time well spent. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 38109 | 14 Mar 17 14:46 |
Gumby fills the magazine racks. |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38100 | 13 Mar 17 16:32 |
| Skye, I have made a few magazines from wood discs. This was easier and produced a better product. I was fortunate that the bottle caps were the scale to match the future Baboon's Vickers. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 38097 | 13 Mar 17 13:40 |
| Also meant to say thanks for the insight on the operation of the Lewis gun. I knew from the design, it wouldn't work with an interrupter mechanism, but didn't know about the gravity-feed system. I can see now, how and why they were prone to jamming. That must have been very frustrating and frightening at the same time. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 38097 | 13 Mar 17 13:36 |
| Very nicely done. That's a great idea how you fabricated the cartridge..... er, magazine..... rack. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 38100 | 13 Mar 17 13:34 |
| Using bottle caps was a smart idea. Very nicely done. I did mine the hard way and fabricated the Lewis cartridge from scratch. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 38100 | 12 Mar 17 14:51 |
Two magazines down, five to go! Unfortunately the magazines evolve from water bottle caps not Guinness sad😭 |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38098 | 11 Mar 17 21:21 |
| I was the benefactor of a serendipitous epiphany this morning when I realized that water bottle caps could be converted into Lewis gun cartridge magazines. I must make five more for the magazine racks! |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38098 | 11 Mar 17 21:02 |
| That's it! Good one! |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38097 | 11 Mar 17 19:18 |
| The doctor is in. Please take a magazine off of the rack and wait until called! The magazines only held 40 rounds and relied on gravity to drop cartridges into the gun. Lewis guns would not function inverted nor could they be outfitted with an interrupter cam/gear to permit firing through a prop. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 38098 | 11 Mar 17 19:16 |
Water bottle cap! |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38097 | 11 Mar 17 19:09 |
| John that ammo magazine looks familiar ...? |
| John M Oshust, Image # 38097 | 11 Mar 17 18:00 |
Working on the gunners pit. Magazine racks for extra 40 round Vickers magazines. |
| Huey V77, Comment for image # 38085 | 09 Mar 17 14:08 |
| Yep, we've entered the " Old Fart Zone." LOL (I'm from the same era.) |
| Don C, Comment for image # 38085 | 08 Mar 17 21:33 |
| That is just great, sir. By the way, I learned to drive on a '56, later wrecked a '53 and early in the marriage had a '52 with the first "powerslide" - what a tank! |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38085 | 08 Mar 17 17:07 |
| Putting friends in the trunk then going to a drive in movie. We were such holligans! |
| rayl, Comment for image # 38085 | 08 Mar 17 16:17 |
| $0.18/gal when the gas war was on, Schiltz or Blatz beer ($1.50 for a case) and a carload of hooligans. Sigh. |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38085 | 08 Mar 17 15:34 |
| Rayl. Thanks. '54 Chevy, sweet. I had a 53
with three on the tree and a 56 that I put 3 on the floor. Those days I would buy a dollars worth of gas, get a free drinking glass, and drive all night! |
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