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
│(iii) A. If (i) │(iii) A. (1) │(iii) A. (1)
│and (ii) fail, │Badly filled │Carefully examine
│examine feed │belt, or a belt │the new belt.
│block slide. If │with worn or │
│jammed, No. 1 │loose pockets. │
│holds up the │The cartridges │
│crank handle and │projecting │
│opens the cover. │unevenly from the│
│No. 2, with the │belt prevent it │
│assistance of No.│entering or │
│1, removes the │passing freely │
│feed block, and │through the feed │
│replaces it by │block. │
│the spare one. │ │
│Meanwhile No. 1 │ │
│forces down the │ │
│horns of the │ │
│extractor, and │ │
│places the crank │ │
│handle on the │ │
│buffer spring. As│ │
│soon as the spare│ │
│feed block is in │ │
│position, No. 1 │ │
│closes the cover │ │
│and pulls the top│ │
│cartridge of a │ │
│fresh belt into │ │
│position and lets│ │
│go the crank │ │
│handle. │ │
│ „ │(iii) A. (2) Belt│(iii) A. (2) See
│ │box not being in │that the new belt
│ │line with the │box is in line.
│ │feed block; the │
│ │belt does not │
│ │lead up correctly│
│ │to the feed block│
│ │and becomes │
│ │jammed. │
│ „ │NOTE.—The effect of a fault in feed
│ │is that the top pawls, being
│ │engaged behind a cartridge in the
│ │belt, are held fast when some
│ │obstruction, such as above,
│ │prevents the belt from passing
│ │freely through the feed block. The
│ │recoiling portions, being connected
│ │by the top and bottom levers to the
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