Just need a bit of advice in parts for a TM Thompson.
I have managed to get a TM Thompson that needs a fair bit of work doing to it and would like to know if it can use standard parts for the follwoing or whether they have to be version 6 specific?
1) Piston and head
2) Spring guide
All help appreciated.
piston head ,piston and sping guide from a v 2 box will fit perfectly .i would recomend a bearing spring guide and silent type piston head,and a piston with at least the last three teeth in metal and if its an old gun new bearings would be a good idear while you have the box appart.the make of the parts is up to you but you get what you pay for .
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
Cheers mate much appreciated 
+1 on the bearings. I had to downgrade my new Cyma M1A1 when I bought it. While I had the box apart, I replaced the plastic bearings with metal.
BTW, why the "silent-type piston head"? Surely the sound is part of the gun's personality...
the silent piston heads do a number of other benificial things.
1 noise reduction
2 reduce impact with cylinder head(silent heads have dense foam padat front) reducing likleyhood of failure of front of gearbox(important on guns runing at 300+fps)
3 inproves alignment of gear teeth on piston and sector gear (ever noticed that the second and third tooth on piston get their tops sliced off) improving piston life.
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
