Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. I used to work in facility that produced among other things (1) the rocker arms for ICE engines. We had one Tool and Die maker that worked full time maintaining the die sections of the progressive die due to the wear caused by the process. The single most impressive operation was stamping a small hole on the order of 1mm through steel about 2mm thick. 1) The other things include complete engines, rear ends, body stampings and finished cars all under one roof.
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  2. Father told me and my brothers that when in Italy they got to shoot a couple of these. He basically said that you could rest the magazine on your left hand and fire it.
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  3.  @missano3856  I agree about Pakistan. Israel not as much. They only way they use nukes is if they literally are facing annihilation. Today Iran gets all the notice but how many other states have weapons programs. Or the capability. Japan for instance could have nukes very rapidly if they decided they needed them. I'd be willing to bet that Tiawan has a nuclear program. Australia if they felt sufficiently threatened by Indonesia or found themselves outside the US umbrella.
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  4. Sir, you have just invented an internet meme. All it needs is Monty Python jumping out and yelling "Let's all ignore the Italians!"
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  5. I suspect, and of course can not prove that while this may of been a trials rifle afterwards it was restocked and given either as a presentation piece or intended to be used as a sporting rifle. This speculation is based on the rather nice looking checkering. If a presentation piece any documentation might of been lost due to WWI or WWII
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  6.  @RMJTOOLS  Better a pair of remote operated 20mm turrets from the B-36
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  7. Its damn hard to move silently through that type accumulated dead leaves and branches
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  8. Anti Tankette Rifle?
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  9. The Soviets were perfectly happy with the idea of the workers siezing the means of production. As long as they where Soviet workers.
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  10.  @dakkadakka9189  Not all German cars are excersises in excessive engineering. The original VWs are good example. A simple and very well built vehicle to move you from point A to point B. But then Germans also built the Trabant. A simple poorly built vehicle that might move you from point A to somewhere short of point B. If people think the Germans are maniacal about designing overly complex pieces of machinery they haven't thought about the Swiss. The Swiss build excellent watches", firearms and machine tools. Just pray you never have to work on them "One of the dirty little secrets about the Swiss watch industry is a lot of the parts are made just over the border in France.
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  11. I've wondered if somebody in the era this rifle is from had tried a paper cartridge similar to the old paper hulled shotgun shells. given some of the problems with early copper cased and brass foil cartridges. Well it seems some one did.
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  12.  @rikulappi9664  Not only does Sasha get to fire 15000 rounds on semi-automatic. He also gets to load all the rounds by hand into the mags.
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  13.  @cases2939  The duck hunt "gun" was actually a crude tv camera
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  14. "The "CZ factory was contracted with...." It was probably more of case you will make these and you will like it.
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  15. The French may had the better rifles. But the Prussians had the better artillery. Plus the French started the war didn't they?
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  16. All it needs is a big Hollywood hoop.
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  17. ​ @davepeters4955  I hate to think what their bikes were like. See through tires so you could see how much air was in the tires?
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  18. Ocean Brutality. Recovering the kettle bell is gonna be a little tough.
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  19. Didn't pretty much every nation with a domestic firearms industry look at German weapons post WWll. I am excluding those countries that were building licensed copies with no experience of domestic design work. One thing a lot of countries did as they began to industrialize was look at establishing their own firearms industry along with railroad networks. Building railroads if you produce any of the items domestically gets you a steel industry. Even if all you produce is your own rails. A domestic firearms industry is going to get you a core of trained machinists and tool makers that can then train others. On another note. The first major consumer product that offered a precision made product was the wood pencil industry (1). First you have to form the cores from graphite and a bonding agent. These have to be quite uniform. Then the wood halves of the pencil body need to be machined in multiple bodies. The cores inserted and the halves glued together. The grooves for the cores need to be the proper depth. Too shallow and the body won't close. Too deep and the cores fall out. Another commercial product that relied early on precision machinery was the mass production of pins and sowing needles. Of course all of this. Indeed everything produced by an industrial process rests on a machine tool industry and national or international standards of measurement. 1) The author of On Walden Pond. His family owned a pencil factory.
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  20.  @Jebu911  Perfect is the enemy of good enough. Ian makes the point about the current 40mm launcher being awkward to carry etc. The China Lake 40mm pump certainly beats it hands down on that matter from all appearances. Yes fix the problems in the original. Just dont get creative with "improvements". As to the property rights I have a post on that further up the comments.
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  21. Just so long as it doesn't turn into a firearms version of Orange County Choppers
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  22. The video or videos of Ian shooting FG-42s are very impressive. One I think is titled Is the Hype Real? The answer was yes. In one portion he fires a full magazine and all if the expended brass lands forward and to the right in about a six foot circle. That shows just one small detail that the designers thought out. Regarding any possible fragility of these weapons. Just what was the expected amount of service for one of these weapons. If it is only expected to last x number if hours in combat or x number of rounds building them to last 10x's as long is a waste of resources. As a side question. I'm sure there is probably data in the various archives. How many rounds did the average rifleman fire total in WWll?
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  23.  @itatane  With Pvt Mackenzie from British Muzzleloaders being the Scottish branch of the clan. Bloke travelled to Alberta or BC to do a series of videos with him. One thing I enjoy about British Muzzleloaders is his historical approach not only to the particular firearm but also the context of its usage in both field exercises and training.
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  24.  @hobblesofkarth3943  Oh, you mean those formerly Irish immigrants 🤯
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  25.  @hobblesofkarth3943  As would the residents of Kentucky and Tennessee. Only they'd run you over with their pickum-up trucks and got out the squirrel rifles
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  26. I remember a show on the History Channel about the original ice road guys. One comment was, "-40's not bad, -50 is cold, -60 is damn cold".
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  27. Needs wheels
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  28.  @SpacePatrollerLaser  I knew the Elbonian Defense Minister had a funny sounding name. P something or other
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  29. I know you used to be able to order them from Gander Mountain. Look up Cattleman's Carbine. There are also repos of Remingtons
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  30. Americans tend to associate the word 'crayon' with the wax based crayons used by children in school or coloring books. In other countries the word is often associated with pencils too. In Europe what we called color pencils are sometimes referred to as crayons. I'm not sure but I think the crayons used by lithographers* are primarily oil based and are a whole different ball game than Crayolas *Traditional lithography involves drawing the scene in reverse on a porous stone (hence the litho) surface and then pressing the the paper under high pressure to transfer the image. A lot of the Currier and Ives prints were lithographs. The down side is you can only get a limited number of prints before the master image either needs to be refreshed or the surface prepped for a new image.
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  31. When I saw the oil resivore (sp) my first thought was it had an oil filled recoil mechanism. I wonder how a cylinder off a rear hatch on a car or gas cylinder for a hood would work. Small, light and they take a surprising amount of force to compress.
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  32.  @craigwinter3792  The reference is "Wisdom According to Oddball". Another is "an FG-42 gives you a nice edge".
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  33.  @VRichardsn  It seems a lot of people dismiss the Italians as much as the French. On an individual level they can be just as good as any other nations soldiers. But in WWII the Italians and the French in 1940 suffered from poor leadership and morale. Plus the Italians never should have gotten involved to start with. They simply did not have the resources to fight a major war with Britian and France. Bennie the Bozo smelled blood in the water with France on the ropes. I think he expected the Brits to cut their losses. But th hey gave the British a hard time in North Africa for a while. North Africa was a place that if you were kicked out of Benghazi and Tobruk as the British were by the Italians eventually the other side would outrun their supply lines.
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  34. ​ @Longshot762x51  A blacksmith/welder l worked with built his own smooth bore cannon. DOM steel tubing with a second section of tube heat shrunk onto the breech end. Breach end was threader with the plug screwed in and welded in place. Bore sized to use aluminum cans. He'd shoot into the hill behind his house.
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  35. The Germans never really perfected sub-machine gun use and tactics. That was done by the mobs stenogaphy department in Chicago. The Germans lacked one essential piece of equipment. A Buick or Cadillac sedan.
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  36. Yah, right after Marty and Doc Brown gave him a ride in the DeLorean
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  37.  @AshleyPomeroy  I think that would be pretty much the case in most navies. The engineering path is not the usual path to ship command. The captain's real job is to fight the ship. In the days of sail you had something similiar with captains and sailing masters.
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  38. Wascally Wabbit?
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  39. Does it come in pink for the female officers?
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  40.  @losonsrenoster  Yes, the command staff were all finalists in the Upper Middle Class Twit of the Year.
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  41. The hand held rock mk1
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  42. No matter the score, did you find it enjoyable? That's the important part.
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  43. In terms of production facilities run by the military building military designs the worst example I can think of is the US Navy and Navy's Board of Ordinance's MK-14 torpedo during WWIl. That is sad tale.
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  44.  @tarmaque  One time period where we might have seen a brass/paper rifle case is post ACW in black powder single shot rifles. Would a case in 45-XX have worked. I can see where water proofing would be an issue. Plus could the cases be treated so they are combustible leaving only the brass base for extraction. Denying any hostiles the possibility of reloaded cases. One issue I see is bottle mech cases. And yes I remember cellulose shot gun shells. And at the time people complained about the new fangled plastic shells.
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  45. Interesting and absolutely beautiful piece of the gunsmiths art. I wonder just what the felt recoil is. More than makes up for not taking that dual. 50BMG water cooled mount to the range. Considering that shooting it would cost the equivilant of a small nation's GDP. Its understandable. 😉
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  46. Especially when the Pathfinders are the Spanish Inquisition
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  47. They easily could have had a motor driven test stand with an offset pin that engaged the trigger with the gun locked in place.
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  48. The important parts of the missile are the electronics. As I understand it the control surfaces are either neutral or full over.
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  49. Plus they would automatically clean themselves, stone out any dents and dings and in general be "schpick und schpan"
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  50. As a retired machinist I know what you mean. Plus you get the well meaning individual who offers to put in his 2 cents. After yuo are past the point of no return. We had a boss checking on what his people were doing on th heir jobs. One guy had a job in the lathe. Taking about .020 off. The boss steps in, stops the feed starts another cut after cranking the tool in and stepping up th he feed. "Thats how yo run a lathe". The reply was "that was my finish pass".
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