smootik
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![[WTB] Thompson magazine catch lever Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: [WTB] Thompson magazine catch lever ![[WTB] Thompson magazine catch lever Icon_minitime](https://2img.net/i/fa/icon_minitime.gif) Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:26 am | |
| That thing was made of cast pot metal that just crumbled on me like a rotten wood...
I am looking for a proper (machined?) metal one (or two). | |
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ljerr2
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| | Subject: Re: [WTB] Thompson magazine catch lever Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:24 am | |
| guessing your talking about a Hudson Thomspon? | |
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smootik
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| | Subject: Re: [WTB] Thompson magazine catch lever Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:00 pm | |
| Yes!
MGC version is proper steel, right? Maybe it would fit a Hudson... | |
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ljerr2
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| | Subject: Re: [WTB] Thompson magazine catch lever Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:16 pm | |
| The later model Hudson Thompson seemed to have some really poor zinc mag catches. The earlier versions seemed to be just fine.
MGC is also made of zinc, just better quality like the old Hudson catches. The MGC will not fit the Hudson unfortunately.
You can make a real Thompson M1A1 catch work for you, but it will take a little fitting work and even then it is not perfect in function (in my experience). It looks great and won't break though!!!!
If you can get your hands on an earlier production Hudson catch, it should treat you just fine.
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smootik
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| | Subject: Re: [WTB] Thompson magazine catch lever Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:37 pm | |
| Thank you for the data, now I know what to look for.
Worst case I'll get a bunch of metal files and a chunk of steel ;-)
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