Top cocking M98 (without butchering)

yeah if you have that top cocking half m-16 ring thing up on it, you should try making a FAMAS style mod, that would be very cool

Yes, that's a M203 shroud along with a M249 stock and foregrip.

Ebay used to be a nice place to shop (now I think they've banned anything that CA residents are not allowed to look at). You should see the sten I bought there

JohnnyHopper wrote: Evil-Fingers - The coil is a spring to return the handle after cocking. The cocking handle is not attached to the hammer and it does not cycle when the gun is fired. It's hard to see, but there is a tab brazed to the bolt linkage and another one brazed to the steel rod on the cocking handle.

Ah ok and btw, you bought a Sten Gun...is it a replica or is it fully operational?

Its not like its an easy thing to find a new receiver for assault weapons anyway. Very, umm illegal.

what did u use to attatch the top cocking system to the linkage arm?

wow, cool.......ok, I'm lost but cool anyways

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Hairball!!! wrote: I want to hump it.

 

You do not want to rotate the hammer and then have to grind a new flat for the sear catch. I also would not want to file down the stock cocking knob/rod, that would be a huge pain.

What I did is a lot easier and quicker than it sounds.

All I needed was :
5 min to rout both halves of the reciever.
5 min to shape a piece of 1/16 spring/hard steel.
30 min to figure out how to hold the steel tab and braze it to the bolt linkage.
20 min of grinding/filing/sanding the brazed on tab.
The hardest part was then making the knob that bolts onto the tab. I spent several hours on that because I only had a dremel tool to work with. You could just as easily make the tab more narrow at the top and then braze a thin steel tube on it for the knob.

Look at it this way. My way, you only modify the receiver a small amount and do not do anything to the hammer. You simply attach something to the bolt linkage and what you do can easily be ground off if need be. Filling in the slot on the side of the receiver is also reversable since it's just epoxy. The only other thing I needed was half the the stupid plastic cocking knob that came with the rocketcock. I just cut it flush with the hammer and put it in to keep the aluminum insert in the hammer still.


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I want one,