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Teaser

By The Armorer on February 21, 2005 | | Comments (60)

Here's a teaser for an upcoming series of posts I'm working on. Another multi-day fest of Gun Pr0n!

Anybody besides JMH and Neffi (c'mon guys, it's not like it's a challenge for you - this would be like having a pro player on a high school team) want to hazard a guess as to what this is? For? Etc? You two can respond email so you can still count your coup points...

I'll give you something I usually leave out - scale. This is a little larger than life size.

Update: Here's a really obtuse hint. Just cuz' SWWBO's gone and I'm feeling mean.

Otay. Here's another hint.

Yet another hint...

Final (I think) Update:

Okay - we're getting close now. CRFan - I'm jealous you've got an MG08/15!

Final hints - look at the pic, look at the pics below - and tell me which one you think is which - and why... because there is a key difference, and it is the key difference between any weapon with Maxim in it's name and a Vickers (vice a Maxim-Vickers... which, has Maxim in it's name, but sometimes you guys don't keep tips like that in mind). I dunno about you guys - this really wasn't intended as a "What is it?" post like I've done in the past - but this one has been fun for me.

Pic 1.

Pic 2.

Pic 3.

Pic 4.

Okay - one of 'em is a red herring for Phil! Wanna take a guess at what that is, Phil? It's not the obvious one...

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By Neffi on February 21, 2005 10:02 AM
Hammer, Ordnance, Armourer for the use of, MK1* too easy....
 
By Sgt. B. on February 21, 2005 10:17 AM
Pintle, machinegun... M60 series?
 
By Mike on February 21, 2005 10:19 AM
Belt buckle pistol from WWII?
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 10:22 AM
All three are *not* correct.
 
By Sgt. B. on February 21, 2005 10:36 AM
Wuz looking at that and came to the same conclusion... It'd be difficult to elevate the weapon...
 
By Neffi on February 21, 2005 10:44 AM
Ian Hogg's favorite paperweight!
 
By Neffi on February 21, 2005 10:48 AM
...errrr.. that would be Ivan, natch
   
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 11:06 AM
Hmmm, about 60% of normal weekday traffic at this point... which indicates an awful lot of readers are gov't/bankers surfing from work!
 
By GEBIV on February 21, 2005 11:12 AM
Government Issue automatic nose picker. (For those really hard to get loogies.)
 
By Barb on February 21, 2005 11:15 AM
Consider the topic, John! I have no idea what the first pic is, and the 'obtuse hint' was not terribly helpful ;-)
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 12:11 PM
My comment was on visitors, not commenters!
 
By Justthisguy on February 21, 2005 12:32 PM
A cannon lock. Is that round smooth part on the left where you tie the lanyard?
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 1:00 PM
Nope. I've provided another hint.
 
By Sgt. B. on February 21, 2005 1:10 PM
Yet another piece of equipment to chuck down the TC's hatch to see if the gunner and loader are on their toes...
 
By AFSister on February 21, 2005 2:21 PM
I'm with Barb on this one (although I do work for a financial company and am off work today- LOL!). Looks like some fandangled (technical term, ranks up there with "whatchamacallit", "thingy" and "thingamajig") corkscrew to me. Pass me the wine, willya, Sanger? You bottle hog!
 
By spd rdr on February 21, 2005 2:22 PM
It's part of one of those thingamajigs. You know, the kind that go BANG really loud and wake up the neighbors? Like guns. That's it. Kinda like guns.
 
By Barb on February 21, 2005 3:12 PM
The hints are so-o-o helpful, thanks! Could you pass the bottle over here next, AFSis? I'm at work, but I need something to drink anyway.
 
By cowboy blob on February 21, 2005 3:29 PM
Blech...I can't get either of your hints to open in either IE or MF. But it's obviously the hatch release handle on a Panzerkampfwagen Mk IIc.
 
By cowboy blob on February 21, 2005 3:33 PM
Or a mounting attachment for a Boys Antitank Rifle?
 
By AFSister on February 21, 2005 3:37 PM
Barb- catch. And don't spill. No party fouls allowed at work- gets the boss really angry. See John? I HAVE been paying attention to your lessons in weaponry. spd rdr confirmed my suspicion that this is, in fact, a thingamajig. And here you thought I'd been goofing off in Tech Terms 101! Of course, everyone else is claiming this is a part to a gun thingy, but I'm sticking to the corkscrew theory. Yellow Tail, anyone??? *hic*
 
By TIM C on February 21, 2005 4:39 PM
A Jack or some other type of hoisting equipment.
 
By Cowboy Blob on February 21, 2005 4:45 PM
And it turns an M-5 Stewart tank into a lowrider, right?
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 4:52 PM
Jack... that's a good guess in some respects. Completely wrong, but understandable. A lotta you guys have never *seen* an armored vehicle jack up close, have you. I did say the pic was slightly larger than 1:1...
 
By Barb on February 21, 2005 5:29 PM
Thanks, AFSis! No breakage here, wouldn't waste a nice wine.
 
By purple raider on February 21, 2005 5:52 PM
Looks like a Shock Puller.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 6:01 PM
Just so it's clear... it's a firearm component...
 
By Justthisguy on February 21, 2005 6:01 PM
I'm going with the Fingerspitzengefuehl. Degtyarev lockwork.
 
By Chris Denny on February 21, 2005 6:17 PM
It is the lock from a Maxim or Vickers machinegun, which are the same thing only with different names because Vikers was just the first company licensed to produce the Maim designed gun.
 
By AFSister on February 21, 2005 6:25 PM
Corkscrew. I'm tellin' ya- it's a corkscrew. Even has a cute little foilcutter and a re-corker. Very convenient.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 6:37 PM
Chris - you are close - but they aren't the same thing. There is a significant difference between the Vickers-Maxim and the Vickers. Between any Maxim and a Vickers. So, to keep it from being just a guess... if you think that's what it is - which is it, and why?
 
By cowboy blob on February 21, 2005 6:40 PM
It's the barrel release mechanism for a Bren gun. Either that or a cigarette lighter.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 6:47 PM
Hmmmm. Blob, that's so out in left field I'm tempted to trot downstairs and take a picture of the barrel release of a Bren...
 
By Phil on February 21, 2005 6:57 PM
Since you are a red leg and I see what I think is an optic I'd say the head assembly for a primitive (antique) aiming circle
 
By CRFan on February 21, 2005 7:02 PM
I wish I had about 10 of them for my 08/15--the only one I see for sale is $550 retail. The lock is the heart of the gun.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 7:02 PM
I am indeed a Redleg, and I own about eight or nine - I'd have to go count - different aiming circles... but this ain't one of 'em!
 
By Neffi on February 21, 2005 7:20 PM
...ruptured case extracter for da Vickie??
 
By Phil on February 21, 2005 7:26 PM
breech assembly/disassembly tools
 
By cowboy blob on February 21, 2005 7:56 PM
Dang, you have a Bren, too? I'm olive-drab with envy.
 
By cowboy blob on February 21, 2005 7:59 PM
Is it a barrel release for a Vickers/Maxim, then?
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 8:09 PM
Blob - Heh. I hate to break it to ya, son. I have a Mark I and a Mark II. Someone hasn't been paying attention on the Castle tours... All - make sure you check the updates. There's new pics up there - and no, Blob, that ain't a barrel release. To get the barrels out of either of those guns you had to unload 'em, pull off the backplates, remove the recoil plates with the barrel secured in them by the trunnions. And then ya hadda repack your asbestos seals.
 
By Chris Denny on February 21, 2005 8:09 PM
OK I would say it is from a vickers as it has more parts and see,s to have a higher level of fit and finish than one would see on a Maxim made in russia like yours.
 
By cowboy blob on February 21, 2005 8:47 PM
Well, it's a Vickers part because it's in the Vickers folder...and the post's subject line is "gun pics / machine guns" but damned if I can tell what it is, perhaps the rear sight?
 
By cowboy blob on February 21, 2005 9:01 PM
Magazine release, perhaps?
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 9:02 PM
Blob - go look at the Maxim folder... or the Maxim posts in the Machine Gun/Gun Porn archives...
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 9:08 PM
And Blob... since when do belt-feds have magazines? Let's see who jumps that comment first...
 
By cowboy blob on February 21, 2005 9:21 PM
No, wait...not magazine, it's not the aircraft version. My final guess, part of the trigger mechanism.
 
By Neffi on February 21, 2005 9:24 PM
ooh ooh MG34... used drum mags in the AA role... [pant pant]
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 21, 2005 9:26 PM
I'd argue that point. You could argue they were just round boxes for the belts. No springs were involved, you couldn't just load 'em with bullets sansabelt (heh) and expect 'em to fire...
   
By Neffi on February 21, 2005 9:42 PM
Well, ok- but a magazine is just an enclosed box containing cartridges to be fed to the mech of the gun, independent of a seperate source (ie ammo box). The saddle drum for the MG34 is kinda a hybrid, eh? Belt feed within a magazine... hmmmmmm mebbe you could say a true belt gun has a feed pawl, while a mag gun relies on springs within the magazine to force the cartridges into play. So the MG34 (sans feed tray cover) will accept a magazine, but is still belt-fed for all that... my head hurts, I'm going beddies...
 
By cowboy blob on February 21, 2005 10:38 PM
While you're all wracking your brains, contest on my blog, no weapons involved...Sorry. Lotsa weapons elsewhere, though! http://cowboyblob.blogspot.com/2005/02/where-is-it.html
 
By cw4billt on February 22, 2005 5:29 AM
No wonder the scruples keep getting out--you took the trandimensional sub-quantum heavy-left router off their cage! I will not be responsequence for the consibles to any etaoinshrdlu...
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 22, 2005 5:47 AM
I see the drugs are kicking in, Bill. You've got to keep an eye on those dogs...
 
By cw4billt on February 22, 2005 7:01 AM
Don' need no steenkeeng drawgs. Sorry (Darn--I always do that on tequila...).
 
By AFSister on February 22, 2005 9:32 AM
pft. Bill- you broke out the tequila at 5AM! And didn't invite me, Cass, Barb OR Cricket? I would have brought limes and salt, and Cricket has been working so hard on her Mexican menu. hmpf. I thought we were friends.....
 
By cw4billt on February 22, 2005 9:56 AM
AFSis - wondered where you guys were. Been waiting for you in the "HOO-AH!" post... Ow!
 
By YaRdApE on February 22, 2005 10:52 AM
...feedpawl? *don't laugh too hard plz*
 
By YaRdApE on February 22, 2005 11:55 AM
Scratch that...it's the biocanooten valve off the Johnson Rod... ...or it's the stabilizer joint from a Belgian waffle maker... It's a toughie.
 
By cowboy blob on February 22, 2005 1:58 PM
If it's not a Vickers MG lock, it's a Maxim MG lock that got misplaced in your Vickers kit. Right?
 
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