Sometimes they are just a pain in the ass.
I went to get the Lewis gun put back together today (it's been down since last year), and while putting it back together, I knocked the feed arm on the floor. The feed pawl spring went off into the wild gray yonder, and I sure don't have a spare. So probably not going to be shooting it next week.
I brought along the 1919, because it's got a history of being an absolute beast to get the backplate off of. After having to take it apart the hard way (the driving spring guide pin wouldn't lock into the bolt. If you've been inside of a 1919, you know that spring is serious business, and not to be messed with), oh look, the belt feed arm is being held in by ... nothing. The spring, washer, wire, all just gone. It's ghetto-engineered back together but I don't know if it's operational.
And these are just small issues compared to what I usually do to these guns. I love them, but like a retard with a fuzzy animal, I love them to death. Sigh.
ATF just said I could take home an even more weird and unusual gun - a Hotchkiss. I'm sure the ensuing disaster will be epic!
I love machineguns, but...
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Re: I love machineguns, but...
Remember, when things go flying look in the deepest, darkest, hardest to get to, spot in the room. 
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Re: I love machineguns, but...
In my house, thats where the black widows live. I do not reach bare hands under anything in the basement.Jakeiscrazy wrote:Remember, when things go flying look in the deepest, darkest, hardest to get to, spot in the room.
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Re: I love machineguns, but...
You forgot "dankest".Jakeiscrazy wrote:Remember, when things go flying look in the deepest, darkest, hardest to get to, spot in the room.
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On the other hand, if you keep your garage workshop cleaner than most doctor's offices, miracles happen. Spring found!
Let this be a lesson to us all, to clean the damn garage occasionally.
Let this be a lesson to us all, to clean the damn garage occasionally.
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Re: I love machineguns, but...
Just remember, if your decide they are to much trouble I'm completely willing to take them off your hands for free! 
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
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Re: I love machineguns, but...
Jakeiscrazy wrote:Just remember, if your decide they are to much trouble I'm completely willing to take them off your hands for free!
Hahahahahah lolz
giggle giggle, snerk snerk, sniff... NO!Now is the time for all good men to get off their rusty dustys...
Re: I love machineguns, but...
Well okay, but my rates for filling out paperwork are pretty steep...Jakeiscrazy wrote:Just remember, if your decide they are to much trouble I'm completely willing to take them off your hands for free!
Re: I love machineguns, but...
they are "bedsheet guns". This is a smithing expression for guns that you take apart or put together ONLY while "wearing" a bedsheet draped over you, with another sheet under you. that way, the parts cant fly very far, and they show up well against the white background. 