Machine gun manual : $b a complete manual to machine gunnery, containing details of Maxim, Vickers, Lewis, Colt, Hotchkiss, together with drill (elementary and advanced) fire orders, notes from the front and a mass of other useful informationDouglas, H. (Composer)
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Machine gun manual : $b a complete manual to machine gunnery, containing details of Maxim, Vickers, Lewis, Colt, Hotchkiss, together with drill (elementary and advanced) fire orders, notes from the front and a mass of other useful information
Douglas, H. (Composer)
Machine gun drill and tactics; Machine guns
Cock lock, remove fusee spring box and spring, turn crank handle
upwards, hold it with right hand and fusee with left, move recoiling
portion, with gun horizontal, backwards and forwards, to see that it
works freely and that barrel goes home. Weight necessary to move
recoiling portion should not exceed 4 lbs. (converted guns 7 lbs.)
tested by placing loop of spring balance over knob of crank handle, and
pulling to rear when handle is slightly above the horizontal.
ASSEMBLING THE GUN.
Reverse all the foregoing operations with the exception that the
recoiling portions must be replaced before the packing and packing
gland. In order to assemble the barrel and breech casings, they will
have to be turned upside-down—_i.e._, the filling hole down, and the
bottom plate of breech casing uppermost—they should be positioned by the
crosshead joint pin. Care must be taken that the ejector tube spring is
in position before joining the casings together. When assembling the
feed block the longer of the two bottom pawls must always be placed at
the front. When assembling the tangent sight, it will be found
convenient to place the slide on the stem before attaching the milled
head; in this position the pinion is prevented from turning with the
pawl when engaging the arms of the slide spring outside the lugs in the
pawl.
REPLACEMENT OF DEFECTIVE PARTS OF THE LOCK.
Should any of the components belonging to the lock become defective they
can be replaced from the spare parts, without stripping the lock right
down. Proceed as follows:—
(i) =Sear.=
Fully cock, lift the sear, and let the firing pin engage with the
tumbler and trigger; with the lock on the bench, left side up, drive out
the sear axis pin, and remove the sear with its spring.
(ii) =Tumbler.=
Fully cock, thus engaging the firing pin with the sear; drive out the
axis pin of tumbler, pull the trigger slightly, and lift out the
tumbler.
NOTE.—Care should be taken not to allow the screwed head to lift the
sear when once the tumbler has been removed.
(iii) =Trigger, Lock Spring or Extractor Levers.=
Release the lock spring, drive out the lock spring axis pin, remove the
keeper bracket, extractor levers and lock spring; if the trigger is
defective, drive out the trigger axis pin and remove the trigger.
(iv) =Firing Pin.=
Proceed as for (iii), but do not remove the trigger. Remove the tumbler
axis pin and tumbler, raise the sear, push the screwed head out of its
way, and the firing pin will drop out.
(v) =Gib, Gib Spring, or Extractor Spring.=
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