Post by Mark

Thanks for your MP40's information!

The MGC mp40 bolts vary considerably over MGC's long production run. I have seen a few variants of the bolt face as well as the bolts body itself.

Like the bolts, the magazine housings also vary. The reasons are possibly for ease of production more than any thing else. I think that MGC used up allot of tooling over the years on the MP40's production run and they just couldn't replace the original tooling easily. So I think that they replaced it with less expensive tooling that made the magazine housings out of two pieces of stamped steel instead of the single, folded stamped housings that they used in the past.

The MGC MP40 has lots of variants that is why I started the registry..
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Post by schultzsgt

You can't un-block the barrel it is an insert put into the barrel when the barrel was cast. There is no way to remove it without ruining the barrel. It was put in there to prevent bullets from being fired through the barrel an to comply with the regulations at the time on non-guns
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Post by Doc

OK ...just when you think there isnt that much more to learn about MGC MP40s ....

quick quiz ....whats this



ok not much of a quiz as its two MGC end receiver caps ..


only thing is is that the left one is cast zinc ????

inside view ..



if you are familiar with MGC MP40s then you`ll know inside the end cap is the C shaped bracket with the screwed on stud that locates the recoil assembly ....well on the left one that stud is a piece of the zinc casting .

normal steel cap fitted to pistol grip



zinc one fitted to same pistol grip



now before someone suggests it is from a marushin or TRC or Nakata ...Id point out I have all of those models and the MGC one is totally different ...whats more this zinc one has not been cut altered .. machined in any way and any marks are from wear and tear the gun has had from being handled a lot .

Its also fits the MGC pistol grip 100% perfectly the same as the steel type .

Now I`ve handled some 50 + MGC MP40s and never ever seen anything like this before ....

Ok so will probably only really interest retentive chaps like Mark and myself but thought you other MGC owners may have liked a look .

By the way the rest of the gun is a standard late version common MGC MP40 .

weird no !

DOC
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