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Same for the Swedish K variant. As soon as it's available, I'm in!

Yeah, it could be added, but it would be kind of awkward. The RPD belt comes with a starter tab that would have to be on top of your proposed guide in order to work. The guide being attached to the top cover, it would be up in the air somewhere if you open the top cover to load the belt and...

One potential problem that comes to mind is the non-disintegrating nature of RPD belts. Having a trickle of individual links falling in front of your ejection port is one thing, but draping a 25 or 50-round segment of belt across it is bound to cause ejection troubles. The RPD gets away with...

Woohoo!! Another toy to play with!

Any chance of a Swedish K variant?

Make sure you check the contour of your reworked extractor with an empty casing under it to make sure it won't hit the barrel when it is held outwards slightly by the casing.

It's been a while since I fooled around with one of those, but I think you are correct in that the extractor is a modified AR extractor and making one should consist of grinding the outer surface of it until it matches the contour of the tapered front of the bolt. The cross pin hole and hook...

There are two flats on the selector that work with the spring to keep your selector in either the "semi" or "full" position. If you don't have sufficient spring tension, the selector will rotate as you are firing and keep you from reliable full-auto operation. The spring doesn't just retain...

The 10-year ordeal of the old federal assault weapon ban seems so long ago that it's easy to forget what a pain in the poop it was. The only "high capacity" magazines you could buy were those that were made "pre-ban" so all sorts of oddball foreign magazines like the PAM-2 mags here were...

You have PAM-2 mags that have been altered to be used in the AR15-9mm. Note that the upper sleeve has been totally ground off on one side to make the mag narrow enough to fit in the AR magwell. If they were altered for use in the 9mm MAC, both side of the sleeve would have been ground to taper...

Yeah, the casing might possibly crack there, but only after quite a few reloadings. I would use new factory ammo without any hesitation.

Also, it's pretty easy to restore the stops on the Sten mags. I took an old surplus screwdriver and shaped the blade so one side was still flat and the other was a rounded shape that tapered to the end. By tapping that into the flattened magazine stops, they came right back up, They looked...

Yeah- Beretta made many little pistols that never even had extractors. The barrels would "tip up" to load or empty the chamber and when fired, the casings would self-extract and toss themselves out into the ozone with no extractor needed.

The location of the ejector in the Sten is important, but in relation to the ejection port, not the magazine. Way back when DLO was starting out building Stens, there were several he put together with the ejector welded in too far to the rear. My buddy Carl Silver wrote an article for the...

You have to remember that in a blowback-operated firearm like the Sten, the extractor isn't pulling the casing out of the chamber, the casing is driving the bolt to the rear. The casing WILL be firmly held in the bolt face even if the extractor isn't installed. The extractor only provides a...

I'll offer a theory as to the origin of this magazine. I once had a project for an extended MP-5 magazine which involved cutting and splicing two old straight MP-5 mags into one 50-rounder. After the job was done, we gathered up the remaining left-over parts, which included the cut-off top of...

Front sight looks to be an M60 front sight with the top lopped off and a replacement sight of the appropriate height added. You can see the notch on the underside that was intended to allow the M60 to pivot on the bipod just so far. The forearm is definitely a modified Thompson horizontal...

First thing I would try is a nylon spacer in the back of the receiver to restrict the travel of the bolt to the rear. The shorter the distance it travels, the faster the cyclic rate is. Nylon (or some other plastic) is cheap and easy to work with. The final design might be rubber os some...

Where would one go to find the current Carlson Comp product line? My search skills are apparently weak.

I tried one of those rate reducers in my M10/45 and found that it reduced the cyclic rate around 100 RPM (via PACT timer). So yes, it worked, but not really enough to matter in the real world.