Meplat

I wish I had a PTRD that could be triggered... although if I ever get one, I might end up saying that every time someone else shoots it.

 

Although, there might be some kind of perverse reverse correlation between complexity and usability (ergonomics, controlability, etc) when it comes to SMG design. Sure, you can have very complex SMGs that are terrible to shoot, but are there any incredibly simple SMGs that are also easy and or comfortable to shoot?

Solothurn Si 100.

Everything that can be made from a milling, is.

Everything made from a stamping is done so under the greatest of protest and with great reluctance.

Everything else is made from leather, wood or spring steel.

As a result the things are fantastically well made, and heavy.

So it looks like they are making hip YouTube commercials for Meplat's demographic...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW3lei36D90

That's more for the DIY/Maker demographic and the shake&bake "rodder" crowd.

What is now sold as "Right Stuff" we used to get from Permatex as a grey label Delco/GM gasket compound.

Used to be some magical proprietary spoogeum, and we mainly used it on intake manifolds and coolant areas, occasionally on oil pans and valve covers.

Trouble with shit like that is, people use it as a cure all for bad shop practice, or where it does not belong.

It's okay for basic pan/valve cover/timing cover gaskets, but does not ever take the place of a good composition gasket on properly prepped surfaces.

All you'll get is leaks, and a fat bill for cleaning all that spunk out of your engine.

You want a good all purpose gasket compound, permatex 2 or the brushable  No3 "Aviation" sealants work, and for head gaskets or pan gaskets "Gasgacinch" (or good grade rubber cement/contact cement).

To be honest, the tar used in both types needs to be pretty hot to soften enough doesn't it? even the "Humiliating" version is supposed to be painful, to really drive the point home that they want said person out of town.

"hot" is relative. The stuff I use here will be well softened after an hour or three in the sun. It won't burn you, but is a pain to get off.

Weirdly enough this guy approaches the norm for gladiators.  Modern forensics on gladiator bodies show they carried quite a bit of weight - and not redneck built beefy weight but actual folds and mass, enough that their shoulder blades and hip joints showed wear patterns similar to a very heavy man.  A 5' 6" gladiator who died in England could have massed just shy of 150 and would have displayed jowls, a beer belly, and a heavy below waist fat.

 

The theory on why this is done is contained in lanista training manuals - the arms and weapons given the gladiators were fixed by precedents so no advantage could be gained there.  Advantage could be gained by being fat, as most weapons were slashing weapons (to give the audience a greater thrill, as slashing weapons combined with strategic armor would have given a long contest).

 

Someone his weight would have been unlikely to be a German soldier, but Gladiators could have eaten as much as 8000 calories a day of high fat, high carb meal and looked more like him than Kirk Douglas.

 

(Also note the shoulders, wrists, and jowls, my wife's HOUSE MD-like office mate told me she thinks this gentleman has Hashimotos complicated by Dysthymia.  She bases this on the fact that weight gain caused by overeating makes it impossible at that weight to bend the knees like this gentleman, and that his hands show water gain not weight gain.  When you hear miracle stories of people loosing 100 kilos it is often because they cure Hashimotos or one of the other major thyroid conditions.)

I doubt very highly that Sergeant Sugarcookie there is doing much comparable to a gladiator, other than the 8K calorie meal(s)

"Tarred and feathered" is a term one should use with care, because there are two forms: One is embarrassing and inconvenient, like having your house TPed, or your friends giving you a reverse mohawk and writing "PENIS" on your forehead while you sleep. The other is a horrible form of execution.

I prefer the version involving the roofing compound that comes off with solvent. Not the stuff that comes off with fire.

the whole "arrest and charge with treason" bit... See, I'd prefer they were ridiculed out of office, tarred and feathered then loaded into a cattle truck and hauled to the state line.  If you're going to get rid of a trough-sponging bipedal lamprey, may as well make a show of it..

I mean if you're going to punish scumbag politicians, simply trying them and then -possibly- hanging them is not really a sufficient deterrent to the surviving bureaucratic maniacs still prowling the halls of government...

(Unless you're going to stuff them full of candy, and let the townsfolk beat them like a pinata... That might work)

I only load 32 bullitz in ma clip for maximum TACTICUUL REALIZM!

 

Holy... What the..

It's fallshirmjager Otto Von Meatbunker, the bipedal sandbag!

Use him for cover! Advance on our enemy using his considerable bulk as a shield!

Really, does a Ju52 even have a way to carry external stores that large? Cause I cannot see Gefreiter Lardbody fitting through the troop door without using considerable amounts of butter..

And I'm assuming that's a reproduction uniform smock, something has me doubting the Germans ever made one like that in size "Hamplanet".

Yeah, I just found my manual and realized my French is weak.  The table has examples of grenades but the top entry is for HOT - 800mm.

 

M31 is 200mm

Mle. 1952 is 250mm

The current grenades are just 66mm rockets without the rocket and penetrates 300mm

The HE round for the French is just a 60mm mortar round (and a 50mm mortar round in the 1950s) for a comparison of effectiveness with a 40mm

 

Americans in the 1960s tested the French Strix and refused to adopt it because it was a blank fired grenades and US soldiers had nearly 20 accidents during testing where they fired it with live ammo.  Modern French grenades use live ammo.

An aside regarding rifle grenades-

Blanks (salutes) and Blanks (GLB's) are not the same, nor are they interchangeable.  Less than amusing things happen if you try to fire a rifle grenade using a salute.

U.S. rifle grenades used to come issued with two GLB's, one in the base of the grenade (where the spigot would go) with a spare usually clipped to the body of the grenade as a backup.

Pretty much the front third to half of the ONTOS is engine. Then there was a little room behind the driver for the crew to squat, and a few rounds for the 106's.

I used to have some components for the early (gas fueled ONTOS) but they got used on the XM-410.

Good.

 

Fuck the fucking fucker.

 

Former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted by federal grand jury

Wonder who he pissed off/did not cut into the deal, cause I'm pretty damned sure there are a whole shitpot of other lobbyists and congresscritters doing the exact same thing.

Betting he stepped on someone's toes.

 

 

 

Carburettor's don't produce lift Any low pressure generated above the lifting body will also pull down the top of the casing, so it's just a really inefficient air intake

I was just wondering what context you were making the reference to.

You're talking about ring wings or flying shirtcuffs then.

Wings themselves are literally doing the same thing a venturi (or a venturi spraybar) is doing, It's just in a wing's application the resultant effect is lift, and in a carb it's a localized low pressure area

That's why I posed the question. Guessing it was on that hot mess of a website somewhere..

Better to think of it as a machine carbine, than a SMG.  The thing was really created before the idea of what a SMG should be and how it should be used were firmly cemented.

That's why you had oddities like the LMG variant.

KitUp! has actual news, though.

it also has "Lance"....

I'll admit I have not seen it, but too much time dealing with surplus vendors and the junkies they draw has permanently damaged my cheese detector sensitivity.

"kitUp" at first mention sounds like a site where you pose with your collection of shrubsuits and airsoft..

The Reising is functioning in a very similar manner to the Thompson,save it's FCG is more spread out, and it's firing from a closed rather than open bolt.

 It does have a few more parts when compared to the M1 Thompson, but it's pretty much in the same realm of "meh, I don't see the issue" for me.

A Kriss Vector, MP5, or Zk383 are better examples of mechanically or functionally complex SMG's.

Yeah, it is pretty obvious over at Military.com's "Kit Up!" pages.

I don't even have to look at "kit up" to involuntarily cringe.

I can guess. Lots and lots of ubertacticool airsoft "plate carriers" in some multibeige tenchnicolor yawn of fashion camo, intermixed with chinese knockoffs of WW2 era kit..

Meplat would know, this is a common method of discipline for his underling workers.

Have to limit the beatings to the Harbor Freight  irons, as the K&E's are far too expensive to risk damaging on a bonehead.

Something about having an aerofoil inside a tube doesn't seem quite right to me

Like a carburetor?  Why is that so odd?

That "lance" character seems a bit touched in the head.

And by "touched" I mean " beaten with a tire iron"..

I really like my Enfield which is the same as yours if I remember right. I'll have to do the same trick when I get back home from Alaska. The only thing that I have to complain about is that short European length of pull (I have long monkey arms).

the buttstocks of the No1MkIII and No4 Mk1 were meant to be fitted, and were of 3 (well, two really) differing lengths of pull.

For a time you could find both original and reproduction "L" stocks, which would likely fit much better.

Considering the M1 was never intended to fire full auto, the way the M2 alterations were incorporated are pretty interesting.

The '28 and the M1 are functionally not that different. The M1 kept the pivoting hammer and firing pin of the earlier models, while making the bolt a simpler one piece unit.

The Blish lock was of dubious function in the pre M1's, so losing it was no great loss.

The M1A1 eliminated the hammer for a fixed firing pin. That was a step backward IMO, as I've seen M1A1's fire out of battery .

The fire control group, never really changed much at all.

Pretty much, the main differences between the M1 series and the earlier guns are concessions to simplify manufacture.

Huh, I've had loads of them apart, and never thought they were complicated.

Most of the functional components are overbuilt and finger friendly, and the silly things tend to keep working even with an incredible amount of fouling/crud infesting it.

To my knowledge that issue is "under consideration". Meaning they'll ignore it as long as possible while they distract people with maps and models.

The insults you'll receive when you suggest that US soldiers were not well trained... And hell, when I say that, I make it clear I mean well trained on the M16 specifically, but it doesn't matter...

There was also "Project 100,000" going on during the issuance of this new rifle, so I'm sure that led to all kinds of unforseen issues.

Specifically, the universe we live in.

I think he'd be out of his element in a universe of his own creation.  Cheeps strikes me as the kind of person who'd manage to drown in an inflatable wading pool.