Marushin MP40 falling to bits Posted by Claymore

Last edited by Cerwyn on Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:41 pm; edited 5 times in total

Marushin MP40 fallimg to bits

***Originally posted by Claymore***

As the title says, thought i would post this to see if it helped anyone with some ideas as to why it happened, this is of course in respect to the problem i put on the problems page so wont go into it anymore but at least you can see what happened and something maybe to watch for with the 40

Marushin MP40 falling to bits ***Posted by Claymore*** Th_MP40BREAKS

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Post by Doc

Have you taken a look at the locking lugs at the rear of your tube and inside the lower receiver , perhaps instead of squared edges they have rounded off ?

also take a look to see the mag housing is still firmly glued to the receiver .

Id perhaps try a harder spring in the take down knob too .

quite an impressive vid to show the effect though .

DOC
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well im new to the forum but i can see your from flintshire north wales by your tshirt lol im from shotton myself is there a decent club around i can join i miss skirmishing Wink

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Hello captain dan, welcome to the forum ,

It could be worth you looking at http://www.ukairsoftzone.co.uk/forums/ , scroll down their first page till you come to the list of skirmish sites throughout the UK.
I'm sure a search will find you a site relatively near to you.

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much appreciated my friend

oops edited this one

much appreciated my friend very very usefull information im glad i found this site , brilliant guys

captain dan wrote:: much appreciated my friend very very usefull information im glad i found this site , brilliant guys

It's a pleasure Dan We aim to please and make everyone, especially newcomers to the Modelgun hobby welcome and try helping make the hobby as enjoyable as possible.

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Cerwyn wrote:: Marushin MP40 fallimg to bits

***Originally posted by Claymore***

As the title says, thought i would post this to see if it helped anyone with some ideas as to why it happened, this is of course in respect to the problem i put on the problems page so wont go into it anymore but at least you can see what happened and something maybe to watch for with the 40

Cerwyn! Long time no hear! How are you doing? I have been very busy with life and am getting back into the model gun world again. Did you ever find a solution to this problem? Mine just started to do it too. I haven't touched it in over a year, it fired fine then, but now it is falling apart as well.

Welcome back Romagnus It's great to hear from you again How's Army life treating you I'll PM you later so we can catch up

As for Marushin's MP40, there are two possible causes for the model coming apart as in Claymore's video.

Firstly, as happened in Claymore's case, the lugs moulded onto the rear of the upper reciever tube and into the retaining ring of the lower receiver had worn. The recievers lock together by twisting both together to lock the lugs, bayonet fixing style.Being plastic, the lugs had worn enough through being taken apart and reassembly so many times stoppng them locking together. The cure is to replace the recievers as a set. Fortunately these parts are available.

Second possibility is that the Take-down pin isn't sitting correctly in the hole drilled into the upper reciever. Pull the bolt back and place in the Safety slot. Look into the reciever tube through the bolt's charging handle slot and you should see the Pin sitting in the hole, it should be flush with the inside of the tube. If it's too low, the in won't hold the reciever securely during firing. It it's too high, the bolt can strike it causing it to lose its hold on the tube.

Careful adjustment should sort the Take-down pin out but make sure the hole drilled in the reciever tube it fits into hasn't worn or cracked.

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also member of Living History Reenactment Groups.

Hi Claymore, could you re-post this video if you still have it please
Thanks mate,

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also member of Living History Reenactment Groups.

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