M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

[No1_sonuk]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

Wouldn't some kind of box with wheels be better?

[Panoptes]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

At £280+, probably not worth it.

[nice_guy_andy]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

Very nice and well done!

Ive only ever seen a C2 sight attached for SF (Sustained Fire), I never got to carry the sight just the gun or the tripod.

The bipod looks too new to me though...

[robharris21]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

Pan that's lush. i need to get me a big-unwieldy gun to wave about

the last time i used one it was a Top m60.... nearly bloody killed me... nice to see the look on people faces tho :D

[Millzy]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

Really liking this project Pan, it's half the reason I'm thinking of starting up again lol (That & the SCAR in your sig )

Massive congrat's to you & your lady friend on the impending wee one! I'm already an uncle but I shall (all been well) become a triple uncle by September! Hehe.

[Panoptes]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

... nice to see the look on people faces tho :D

The holes in people's faces are even better! :D Lol

Cheers all. This was one project I simply had to do.

[ste887]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

At £280+, probably not worth it.

gorilla box on wheels?

[Panoptes]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

Got me an AIM50 Operational drag bag for it.

[OMEGA1]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

Hey,

I'm looking for the same flashhider you have know. You said in one of your first posts that it was a replica. Where did you buy it? I've looked everywhere but didn't find it yet. They have it in the U.S.A. but no international shippings for it.


Thnx

[Panoptes]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

I bought it after being PMd - someone had one going spare. I wasn't even aware they had been made. Got a link? Or are you talking about a real steel version? I'm assuming it would have been a run for a project or something?...

[OMEGA1]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

http://www.ohioordnanceworks.com/Par...MAG58Parts.cat

Thnx for the quick reply

[No1_sonuk]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

Using that photo, and a couple of dimensions, someone could make those. The hard part would be working out the shape of cutter needed for the forward part of the slots.

If someone has a blueprint, that info could be on it.

[steel tiger]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

Could you post instructions on how you attached the GPMG flash hider

[Panoptes]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

I'd like to but it's jammed-in pretty tight and I don't want to undo it again. I used a series of metal and plastic collars/collets found in my spares box to create a tight but maleable 'jacket' on the threads. I then tapped-on the flash hider. Non-permanent but nice n' solid.

Ok, the 50 round contact mag is ON!

Put up a bit of a fight but a file-down here and a file-down there and she clips-on just fine. Mighty strong, too... unlike that horrible, flimsy M240 box mag thing it comes with. It'll take one hell of a whack to get this thing off so it can be properly thrown around and skirmished now.

Just waiting for an A&K box mag now (Echo-1USA wanted $318 for a spare M240B mag!). Then the fun will really begin as i engineer the gubbins into this...

The 50 round contact magazine is of course much smaller than the full-size one and I estimate a fill will be 1000-1500 rounds, rather than the 3500 currently at my disposal. This suits me fine though as it'll enable the 'simulation' of belt changes as I run out of ammo (top cover has to be raised before you can open the box mag and refill.

Watch this space!

[riddick 1811]

Re: M240B > L7A2 GPMG Conversion

that thing keeps looking sweeter and sweeter the more pics you add