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01-04-2011 09:24 PM
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Re: My Collection - Part 1
Best Regards
Vegard T.
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Looking for militaria from HKB 31./977, HKB 32./977, HKB 38./977 or militaria related to Norway
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Re: My Collection - Part 1
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Thanks guys - glad you like them - though confess they do not look their best at the moment and I hope to be able to spend some time on them soon - any recommendations on what gives the best finish? The .50 on the extreme right is probably the most corroded I have seen as the schoolboys who removed it hid it in a ditch - a friend "parkerised" (spelling?) for me. I was going to stick to just cleaning the others as best I can, probably with a soft or even brass rotary wire brush & then oil applied with a rag.
Will try to get a photo of my other 20mms soon.
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Only just found this thread!!
Very very nice I can feel myself going green. Ha
I don't suppose you have a spare top cover for an m2 50cal you could part with for a project I've got?
Andy
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Woah that 20mm barrel has seen one hell of an impact. Man I would not have liked to have been in the cockpit behind that. Ouch!
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Nice collection Nick,
I'd love to have one of those in my display. As for the finish I would personally go for getting it parkerized, But the barrel on the far right one looks a bit too far gone to re-finish. You might try to find a replacement barrel. You could get a worn out one for display fairly cheap.
Good luck in your restorations
Burt
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Thanks for your comments:
Burt - the parkerized one worked quite well and was done some 15 years ago and has remained stable - trouble is the mate who did it emigrated to Oz! Don't think I can really send him another to do through the post! The .50 second from the right is a trawler brought in item, the barrel itself is actually not that bad, but the shroud has had it - I have another spare one I may swap over - the gun the spare shroud is off was rendered "safe" by EOD - with semtex! and is beyond repair :-(
Andy - Sorry, no spare breech covers - I actually need two myself - if you look at the best two guns they are missing - They were in a complete A-26 turret that I loaned to a museum - but without my consent, they pulled the turret to bits and the guns - I only found out when the museum closed. I went to collect the turret, but found the stripped frame was sat out side rusting and the gun mounting section was missing, as were the guns - I eventually found them in a storeroom, but the breech covers and oil buffers had been removed and had vanished :-(
Diomac - in the P-39, the engine is behind the pilot, so on impact, it came through the cockpit and hit the back of the gun, squashing it against solid limestone - the aircraft suffered engine failure (turned out to be a dropped valve) and the pilot waited until he cleared a nearby village before he bailed out - sadly he was too low for his chute to deploy properly and he was killed - a brave man indeed.
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