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Teaser

2005-02-21T12:52:45Z

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...

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-22

2005-02-22T19:58:39Z

If it's not a Vickers MG lock, it's a Maxim MG lock that got misplaced in your Vickers kit. Right?

Comment from YaRdApE on 2005-02-22

2005-02-22T17:55:40Z

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.

Comment from YaRdApE on 2005-02-22

2005-02-22T16:52:31Z

...feedpawl? *don't laugh too hard plz*

Comment from cw4billt on 2005-02-22

2005-02-22T15:56:05Z

AFSis - wondered where you guys were. Been waiting for you in the "HOO-AH!" post... Ow!

Comment from AFSister on 2005-02-22

2005-02-22T15:32:31Z

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.....

Comment from cw4billt on 2005-02-22

2005-02-22T13:01:41Z

Don' need no steenkeeng drawgs. Sorry (Darn--I always do that on tequila...).

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-22

2005-02-22T11:47:06Z

I see the drugs are kicking in, Bill. You've got to keep an eye on those dogs...

Comment from cw4billt on 2005-02-22

2005-02-22T11:29:30Z

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...

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T04:38:10Z

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

Comment from Neffi on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T03:42:44Z

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...

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T03:39:38Z

MG Lock?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T03:26:43Z

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...

Comment from Neffi on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T03:24:11Z

ooh ooh MG34... used drum mags in the AA role... [pant pant]

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T03:21:43Z

No, wait...not magazine, it's not the aircraft version. My final guess, part of the trigger mechanism.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T03:08:06Z

And Blob... since when do belt-feds have magazines? Let's see who jumps that comment first...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T03:02:27Z

Blob - go look at the Maxim folder... or the Maxim posts in the Machine Gun/Gun Porn archives...

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T03:01:18Z

Magazine release, perhaps?

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T02:47:02Z

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?

Comment from Chris Denny on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T02:09:43Z

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.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T02:09:04Z

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.

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T01:59:35Z

Is it a barrel release for a Vickers/Maxim, then?

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T01:56:54Z

Dang, you have a Bren, too? I'm olive-drab with envy.

Comment from Phil on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T01:26:00Z

breech assembly/disassembly tools

Comment from Neffi on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T01:20:05Z

...ruptured case extracter for da Vickie??

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T01:02:27Z

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!

Comment from CRFan on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T01:02:12Z

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.

Comment from Phil on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T00:57:29Z

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

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T00:47:31Z

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...

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T00:40:13Z

It's the barrel release mechanism for a Bren gun. Either that or a cigarette lighter.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T00:37:50Z

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?

Comment from AFSister on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T00:25:27Z

Corkscrew. I'm tellin' ya- it's a corkscrew. Even has a cute little foilcutter and a re-corker. Very convenient.

Comment from Chris Denny on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T00:17:19Z

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.

Comment from Justthisguy on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T00:01:36Z

I'm going with the Fingerspitzengefuehl. Degtyarev lockwork.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-22T00:01:09Z

Just so it's clear... it's a firearm component...

Comment from purple raider on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T23:52:59Z

Looks like a Shock Puller.

Comment from Barb on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T23:29:34Z

Thanks, AFSis! No breakage here, wouldn't waste a nice wine.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T22:52:47Z

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...

Comment from Cowboy Blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T22:45:38Z

And it turns an M-5 Stewart tank into a lowrider, right?

Comment from TIM C on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T22:39:02Z

A Jack or some other type of hoisting equipment.

Comment from AFSister on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T21:37:34Z

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*

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T21:33:53Z

Or a mounting attachment for a Boys Antitank Rifle?

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T21:29:39Z

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.

Comment from Barb on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T21:12:52Z

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.

Comment from spd rdr on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T20:22:57Z

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.

Comment from AFSister on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T20:21:18Z

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!

Comment from Sgt. B. on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T19:10:48Z

Yet another piece of equipment to chuck down the TC's hatch to see if the gunner and loader are on their toes...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T19:00:53Z

Nope. I've provided another hint.

Comment from Justthisguy on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T18:32:07Z

A cannon lock. Is that round smooth part on the left where you tie the lanyard?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T18:11:12Z

My comment was on visitors, not commenters!

Comment from Barb on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T17:15:37Z

Consider the topic, John! I have no idea what the first pic is, and the 'obtuse hint' was not terribly helpful ;-)

Comment from GEBIV on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T17:12:09Z

Government Issue automatic nose picker. (For those really hard to get loogies.)

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T17:06:18Z

Hmmm, about 60% of normal weekday traffic at this point... which indicates an awful lot of readers are gov't/bankers surfing from work!

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T17:00:30Z

Ivan?

Comment from Neffi on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T16:48:35Z

...errrr.. that would be Ivan, natch

Comment from Neffi on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T16:44:56Z

Ian Hogg's favorite paperweight!

Comment from Sgt. B. on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T16:36:49Z

Wuz looking at that and came to the same conclusion... It'd be difficult to elevate the weapon...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T16:22:50Z

All three are *not* correct.

Comment from Mike on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T16:19:05Z

Belt buckle pistol from WWII?

Comment from Sgt. B. on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T16:17:23Z

Pintle, machinegun... M60 series?

Comment from Neffi on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T16:02:11Z

Hammer, Ordnance, Armourer for the use of, MK1* too easy....