To: w1n1
Can be fabricated at any well equipped machine shop, yes?
4 posted on
06/07/2017 10:23:49 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Can be fabricated at any well equipped machine shop, yes?
It helps if you have the schematic:
10 posted on
06/07/2017 10:37:16 AM PDT by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: BenLurkin
IIRC, it was made by the GM headlamp division, stamped out, for the most part, save for the machined bolt, barrel, and firing mechanism.
It was also field convertible to fire German 9mm SMG rounds.
To: BenLurkin
Can be fabricated at any well equipped machine shop, yes? If the machine shop has 80-ton stamping metal presses like the Anderson, Indiana Guide Lamp plant where most of the M3 and M3A1s were produced.
Of course, the design is simple enough that 2 1/4-inch muffler tubing and 1/16-inch 1020 carbon sheet steel can be used instead. But the economies of scale are more easily realized by stamping and robot welding a half-million or so at a time.
34 posted on
06/07/2017 1:35:48 PM PDT by
archy
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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