robot7247 ago

Adjustable ROF, should have been a thing for the MG-34/42 as well.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

dude heres a picture of the throttle

adjustable down to once a minute

they wanted to set it up at a specific spot and have a round go off automatically every minute for harassing area denial

it used an oil filled buffer that slowly squished oil out a hole

by making the hole smaller you increase the time it takes to squish out all the oil and fire again

robot7247 ago

I know, the arc vernier is ridiculously cool. I don't recall any other MG utilizing adjustable ROF. What is so ingenious about it is that it operates at all at such low rates.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

the thing is modern guns operate on a completely different mechanism so it would be much harder to implement on something built today

robot7247 ago

I should have specified I don't know of any man-movable MGs with variable ROF as an integral feature. Chain & gatling guns can have variable ROF (neither rely on recoil but motors). But nothing like Maxim did was ever repeated as far as I know. Likely size, weight, and complexity or discovery that it didn't add much at the mission level. Still ridiculously cool though.

Great post!

Deshy ago

Nice you rock and the 5th cheeky sneaky Toosday sneaked on me like a robber in the night... sorry...

thedirtypuma ago

I blew it. I forgot about the fifth Tuesday.

Awesome read though. The maxim is awesome. I also believe that Maxim thought that the machine gun would end all wars since casualties would be so high. That went well lol

How have you not done the gatling gun yet?

clamhurt_legbeard ago

honestly if you look almost everything ive done is 20th century or about there

i think the oldest are the winchester guns from the post civil war era

thedirtypuma ago

Checks out.

Have you ever considered doing a guns clammy doesn't like?

clamhurt_legbeard ago

no

this is about positive things

i dont want a whole series to encourage complaining lol

thedirtypuma ago

I remembered about the stippling now.

I'm still undecided is I do it to the glock

clamhurt_legbeard ago

ya

i remembered i did it to my shotgun too

still need to take pictures for you

thedirtypuma ago

I bought a wood burning kit for stippling. I may try it out on some AR mags first to get the feel of it then maybe move on to a firearm.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

very cool dude

if you have any things like caps or different sizes inserts for grips you can try on those first

WhoFlungPoo1132 ago

Awwww....sheeeeit. Shit just got serious.