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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

This gun is going to be a work of art I agree, a great bit of engineering , do you have your own workshop ? its modest but yes i have a workshop , so...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

OK I'll judge it by eye , I can make it the exact same diameter as the barrel ,the thread is 14mm and the barrel 17mm so that's easy ,it just needs th...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

Just made up a compensater/sight base and it looks too short , 36mm is the measurement from the cad file but i'm thinking at least 46mm would look bet...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

that's fine i like them , just not sure what period they were for but i don't expect too much nit picking on the design from anybody.

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

didn't have loads of time today but the outer barrel is extended and threaded for the flash hider and front sight ,easy enough job as it's steel ,just...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

Do you want the cooling fin's around the barrel above the front hand grip like this ? or plain like this ? i think this is the earlier version need...

12 years ago
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Re: Which side?

The reason why we recommend basic infantry first is that to the best of our ability's we try to re create the forces that were present at the battle w...

12 years ago
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Re: Which side?

There's a bit of a north south divide , down south there's load's of German's further up country there's more allied , generally you get more action i...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

i should patent a lot of stuff , the muzzle flash idea has been copied ,sterling's etc ,i had the first sten running off a version 7 gearbox ,variable...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

Just measured the main tube ,I had deliberately left it long but I was only out by 25mm ,there would be ample space for lipo battery's or for a very s...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

Cool that covers just about everything I need ,thank's .

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

Finished for the day now ,the last thing I did was cut the bottom of the main tube for fitting the gearbox ,it all fit's nice and snug ,next thing to ...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

a few pictures detailing the hop conversion and gearbox support. the main receiver tube is deliberately left long for now and i'll cut to lengt...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

If you can get the length of the main receiver tube ,barrel length and flash hider length the the rest can be pretty accurately guessed .to some exte...

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

Also made a sleeve that joins the gearbox and hop and ensures perfect alignment once fitted inside the gun.

12 years ago
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Re: Anyone fancy making me an Owen gun?

Well I finally started cutting metal today but before i go into that I'll give a quick overview of what's planned . What we plan is to make as faithfu...

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