I lost it at "I got a Dremel, so i'm a gunsmith!" in a perfect Barney (Simpsons) voice. 🤣 My first gun was a junkyard mutt of a .45 (NOT going to call it a 1911). Series 70 Commander slide on a full size Safari Arms frame with a huge, deep finger groove. Spotted several of the individual flaws, but not all, and completely missed the big one...some S00per Geenious had "polished" the ramp of the barrel *and the feed ramp in the slide* to the point where it wouldn't feed reliably with a safe barrel (several millimeters of case wall showing at the top...I like being able to count to ten without taking my shoes off). Kept it for several years, then regretfully "retired" the frame after letting a friend pull the usable parts off it. You live and learn. And pay for the parts and labor to try to make a wreck whole again.
Genius! I like how you describe verbally what you are thinking. I hope you have an apprentice. Good smithing is an art. I know a kid that is working for a very old saddle maker. He will one day be able to call himself a saddle maker. The secrets of his trade will live on. Gunsmiths, not AR lego assemblers, are getting rare. Just my two cents worth.
Always a pleasure to see you work on a firearm. Wow is the Bergman Bayard an intricate mechanism. I'm impressed that you know so much about firearms that you can reason how a part needs to be installed (up/down/left/right).
I had to hang up my apron on 12-31-21, after a 12 year run. Health, lack of work due to covid, and being ruled and regulated to death finally did us in. I hope you have as many years of continued success as you want brother. Thanks for sharing with us. God bless. Rev. D.
with the junk laws of transfer and "ownership" the left keeps trying to push, Im not surprised. Its a way to make gunsmithing illegal. A smooth move by our neighbors from the Marx side of the street.
Hello Mark, I really enjoy your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and techniques for conserving firearms. I have built a steaming rig like the one "Bob" used on your video, and I have since conserved several firearms for folks. It's amazing to see the finish come to life while carding! Thanks again, and God bless you.
Historic firearm, expert gunsmithing, informative commentary, witty and dry humour. No other channel like it. Many Thanks Mr Novak, Best Wishes from the UK.
To Mark and all the fine crew at your shop: Have you ever noticed a difference when doing a boil out if using distilled water vs hard water vs soft. Thank you for all the hard work and hours it takes to make these videos, the world is in your dept!
I was using a boil out tank that also gets used for hot bluing. It struggled the turn the parts black. After draining and refilling with tap water it started turning black. Depends on what your tap water puts out but acidity DOES play a roll
Damn I'm glad you are doing a gun so far gone it ain't worth saving. About ten years ago I did an 1899 Winchester model 94. OMG ridden hard and put away wet does not accurately describe this gun. It kind of looked like great grandpa beat the holly dog doo out of this gun, and rarely maintained it. Then he died. The gun (Grandpa's gun!) was kept, wrapped in a blanket, stuffed in a closet, and forgotten...in about 1950. Then I got it. To get it apart took about 2 weeks. I had to drill out two screws (I actually managed that!) The extractor and firing pin were broken, corrosion, the magazine front hanger was RIPED out of the barrel and flopping in the breeze. And the front stock end cap hanger still had drilled out screw in it. Oh and the magazine spring was rusted in pieces. Did I mention how pitted inside and out the barrel was? The rear site was also rusted in 2 pieces. The gun was a wreck. But the action still worked, the wood was good, and I wanted it so bad I figured I could do some fancy aviation maintenance on it, and get it running again. I did. $150 worth of parts and springs, the softest touch I could justify on the barrel (Deep pits!), I cleaned the wood with steam and a soft towel. I saved the Lyman tang sight. I used oil and 000 steel wool on everything but the wood, and I got a working (still looks old, but it's not) model 1894 made in 1899. I worked up a super light lead load for it, and it shoots great. It looks old, it works like old, and shoots lead just fine. I'm happy with it. The gun wasn't worth trying to preserve. Instead I got a working nineteenth century rifle I could afford. And it still looks old, pits and all. Yes I did a bubba!
I'm no pro, and I do not do this for a living, but Mark and crew have Helped me learn and grow and conserve tools. Thank you, recently conserved my Grandfather's first tool he bought when he came to America, and he passed 2 weeks after I finished. 🇺🇸
When I worked in maintenance at a local hospital 40 year's ago, we weren't aloud to use WD-40 because it collected so much dust and dirt. When I worked on the electric bed's and would have to lube them, I would use a bar of soap. I can't remember that far back, but we only used one or two kind's of soap.
Seeing the baggie of corrosive ammo made me wonder just how many completely serviceable weapons were destroyed in the last twenty years or so by people not cleaning after firing them. Cheap surplus corrosive ammo and a couple of generations of shooters that have only known non-corrosive ammo is not a good combination.
I did a "Rust Blue job" with a CPAP ozone generation steaming system on a reproduction musket and pistol barrels, then for yhits and giggles? I electro plated over with a zinc (or silver? hard to remember) copper solution on one, and a zinc (or silver? hard to remember) nickel on another and it took over the rust blue? Both looked period correct lighter or darker grays, and both are very well rust resistant a year later hanging in my open shop with roll up doors open all the time day or night. Love this stuff! Thanks SO MUCH for Providing Knowlege with new Ideas! Love how Fearless you are! Like doing CPR the patient is Dead already! you can only bring them back!
Yes Sir. YOU do awesome work Mark been watching you for a few years. Love your approach to it all. Firm but very SAFE as well . Thanks for instruction without B.S 👍👍 You do your craftsmen 100% honor! You ARE A MASTER Thanks again seeya on the next.
Damn, that's a fancy tip! Thanks dude. Twirl it around and you'd have a little steel wool Q-tip for getting into pin holes and such. Or use 0 or 00 and then use that Q-tip to torture your enemy. 🤷🏻♂️
Thank you for giving your method and info. I was able to pick up a ufix-it colt from century arms I was able to rust blue it this weekend. Times and humidity were a little different here in AZ but got it worked out. Thanks 👍
Another answer to a question nobody ask.. It is well known that germans love building most complicate things ever.This gun is one of them. Great video!
38:55 A sure sign that someone has handled guns properly for a hell of a long time. The gun stays put in the middle of the screen and pointed down range while Mark moves back and forth multiple times and all around it. It's not just for framing.
I wish I could post a pic of the inside of a Colt New Service I bought when I opened it up to clean it. There was so much gunk in there I was amazed the cylinder rotated. Good video Mark.
The m1 carbine magazine is opposite as well, the spring needs to be oriented so it pushes up on the rear of the follower, I was having problems with my last round and realized I I put the spring oriented toward the front as you would think it should be, I verified spring toward the rear was proper with examining a few different unwrapped GI magazines,
Electricians: Will spend hours making sure an offset in conduit is perfect for a customer. Will also spend seconds wiring up their own shit just good enough to work.
When I was an auto technician, my shop foreman once told me about how the oil in his truck was 9,000 miles old and the tires hadn't been rotated ever since installation when new. I was horrified. "Why??? We have a beautiful shop right here! Just clock out and do it! We yell at customers about doing maintenance on schedule but you don't do it to your truck? Wtf?" He said "I work on cars all day long. The last thing I want to do is work on one more, my own. I just want to go home and relax. On the weekend, I don't want to work on anything either. I just want to relax. It'll last long enough for me to trade it in. I don't give a shot if it lasts over 150k miles. I ain't keeping it that long." He had a point. Still, I take great care of my vehicles. I know that if you take care of them, they will last nearly forever.
Ah old forgotten machining techniques. Oddly enough someone likely did free hand the machining for that side plate, but not directly. While each operation was likely done separate, a pattern maker would have likely machined a "pattern", that would then be used with a trace mill or a piloted end mill to cut the shape. After CNC machining became prevalent pattern making as a profession pretty much disappeared. As for the magazine well I would point towards a shaper or scraper. They were a quite common type of machining equipment until the 60-70s, when they fell out of favor to faster machining process. They were not well suited to the carbide transition. Then they almost completely fell out of common knowledge in the 90s after WEDM started to become more prevalent.
Yup, I remember hydraulic tracers going for a song at auctions back in the 80s, along with cam operated screw machines and big turret lathes. Most got stripped of what was usable and the rest scrapped.
Imagine the potential how long the guns you have saved will circle around for the next generations! Some of them will for sure be there after hundreds of years from now :)
I have a llama 1911 semi clone? Dont know how else to describe it. Someone tried to fit a 9mm 1911 barrel to it. Looked pretty good except the ramp was ev idently tinkered with and blew the case out into mag and mag well... yikes. So now i load one round in mag cycle mag, then remove the mag to test fire semi auto pistols.(provided they fire with no mag of course) found an orig. Barrel and put it back. Chambered in 9 largo. Gun is marked 9mm/38 on slide. I can only assume 9mm largo or 38 acp. As i dont think 38 super had really caught on in spain when gun was mfrd. Best guess is early to mid 40's. That 9 largo is getting hard to find. I just use 38 super brass and load to largo or acp data... its been a reliable and fun shooter... As always, good stuff Mark.
Steinel is making 9mm Largo...just got 250 rounds from them and it looks nice. Starline is also making the brass now and then....got another 500 cases so I'm set. My FedOrd 714 Mauser C-96 is chambered in 9mm Luger but the magazines were for the 7.63 Mauser and are way too long for the Luger so it would misfeed badly. Have a chamber reamer that's going to deepen it to Largo which fits nicely in the mags. Yes it's going to be quite the Frankenstein but I'm thinking it'll work well. Oh...mags are non-existent for the Schnellfuerer's unless you want to pay $400 for an original. Gun came with a 20 and a 10 rounder but I just got a couple new 20's from Triple K that look great and were under $100. :)
I wonder if a mild acid bath... maybe as slight as pickling vinegar would remove the finish caused by the fire fighting chemical? It would only need to remove that finish. I have taken the zinc plating off of bolts in an hour with vinegar.
9 largo, 9x23, 38 super, 38acp and at least a couple im not mentioning. I have a llama 1911 knock off, sort of chambered in that. Previous owner thought it was 9mm luger. Sigh. Fortunately it worked and didnt destroy anything. In his defense the slide is marked 38/9mm. Meaning of course 38acp/9mm largo. Great vid once again Mr Novak.
WD-40, I call it Die Scheiße! At 26:58 when the spanner was made for the twin hole screw I like to make the drive with two round pins in the end; in that way one won't leave burs at the edges of the holes in the screw. Alot of those pistols have to have a straight arm to fire and eject properly.
Interesting observation about the Bergman and the 1911. Can you explain the thinking of more modern guns such as the Walther GSP still using a forward of trigger magazine?
Bravo, Mark. I don't own a Bergmann, but I've always admired their looks, similar to Mauser's C96. Regardless, I learned half a dozen useful tips for working on one's own guns. thx - Z
I have been watching you videos for some time now, now after I boil the gun in water Can I substitute mayonnaise for the french onion dip that you spread on it after?
You solved a problem for me on my 7.65 Beretta of misfeeds I got due to the MAGAZINE SPRING NOT BEING FITTED to lift the nose of the bullet when feeding. Thank you
I lost it at "I got a Dremel, so i'm a gunsmith!" in a perfect Barney (Simpsons) voice. 🤣 My first gun was a junkyard mutt of a .45 (NOT going to call it a 1911). Series 70 Commander slide on a full size Safari Arms frame with a huge, deep finger groove. Spotted several of the individual flaws, but not all, and completely missed the big one...some S00per Geenious had "polished" the ramp of the barrel *and the feed ramp in the slide* to the point where it wouldn't feed reliably with a safe barrel (several millimeters of case wall showing at the top...I like being able to count to ten without taking my shoes off). Kept it for several years, then regretfully "retired" the frame after letting a friend pull the usable parts off it. You live and learn. And pay for the parts and labor to try to make a wreck whole again.
Looking at all that machining makes one realize how much we’ve taken CNC machining for granted. What a piece. Thanks for sharing!
There is something about watching, listening and learning from a true craftsman...thank you!
Simple enough to understand complicated enough to be interesting. One of my favorite videos.
Genius! I like how you describe verbally what you are thinking. I hope you have an apprentice. Good smithing is an art. I know a kid that is working for a very old saddle maker. He will one day be able to call himself a saddle maker. The secrets of his trade will live on. Gunsmiths, not AR lego assemblers, are getting rare. Just my two cents worth.
Always a pleasure to see you work on a firearm. Wow is the Bergman Bayard an intricate mechanism. I'm impressed that you know so much about firearms that you can reason how a part needs to be installed (up/down/left/right).
Regarding not removing the 120 year old extractor spring: sometimes, being the master of your craft means knowing when to leave well enough alone.
I had to hang up my apron on 12-31-21, after a 12 year run. Health, lack of work due to covid, and being ruled and regulated to death finally did us in. I hope you have as many years of continued success as you want brother. Thanks for sharing with us. God bless. Rev. D.
with the junk laws of transfer and "ownership" the left keeps trying to push, Im not surprised. Its a way to make gunsmithing illegal. A smooth move by our neighbors from the Marx side of the street.
Getting a dive into a Bergman pistol, then being able to see it fire. Holy hell, man. Good job!
41:00 I we love watching you work on them. Thanks again for bringing us a fine old piece of firearms history.
Mr. Novak once again blessing us with his wisdom.
Another amazing episode my friend. I enjoy the oldies just as much... Great work and talent.
To see this old Lady brought back to life is almost heartwarming.
You just have to love Bergmanns (and Mannlichers, and Steyrs, and...).
These aren't just youtube videos they are for future generations of kids to learn about how to preserve our history. I like your style sir
One hour until I have to go to work with a new 45 minute video to watch, PERFECT!
And this is why Anvil gets more of my money than broadcast TV
Love seeing the old War Horses brought back to life!
Another old classic runs again, really like the special tools you make.
One of the best, great gun, great methods, must be near the pinnacle of manual machining work.
Made my weekend sir. Can't get enough of watching you work, and I deeply appreciate the effort that goes into showing it. Thank you!
Hello Mark, I really enjoy your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and techniques for conserving firearms. I have built a steaming rig like the one "Bob" used on your video, and I have since conserved several firearms for folks. It's amazing to see the finish come to life while carding! Thanks again, and God bless you.
Wow, I learn something new with every video. Thanks Mark.
Historic firearm, expert gunsmithing, informative commentary, witty and dry humour. No other channel like it. Many Thanks Mr Novak, Best Wishes from the UK.
"Tweaker," one of those words I learned in the USAF in an Avionics shop.
To Mark and all the fine crew at your shop: Have you ever noticed a difference when doing a boil out if using distilled water vs hard water vs soft. Thank you for all the hard work and hours it takes to make these videos, the world is in your dept!
Tap water for everything. Possibly might consider distilled for rust blue of a high-end from scratch job, maybe
I was using a boil out tank that also gets used for hot bluing. It struggled the turn the parts black. After draining and refilling with tap water it started turning black. Depends on what your tap water puts out but acidity DOES play a roll
Damn I'm glad you are doing a gun so far gone it ain't worth saving.
About ten years ago I did an 1899 Winchester model 94. OMG ridden hard and put away wet does not accurately describe this gun. It kind of looked like great grandpa beat the holly dog doo out of this gun, and rarely maintained it. Then he died.
The gun (Grandpa's gun!) was kept, wrapped in a blanket, stuffed in a closet, and forgotten...in about 1950. Then I got it. To get it apart took about 2 weeks. I had to drill out two screws (I actually managed that!) The extractor and firing pin were broken, corrosion, the magazine front hanger was RIPED out of the barrel and flopping in the breeze. And the front stock end cap hanger still had drilled out screw in it. Oh and the magazine spring was rusted in pieces. Did I mention how pitted inside and out the barrel was? The rear site was also rusted in 2 pieces. The gun was a wreck. But the action still worked, the wood was good, and I wanted it so bad I figured I could do some fancy aviation maintenance on it, and get it running again.
I did. $150 worth of parts and springs, the softest touch I could justify on the barrel (Deep pits!), I cleaned the wood with steam and a soft towel. I saved the Lyman tang sight. I used oil and 000 steel wool on everything but the wood, and I got a working (still looks old, but it's not) model 1894 made in 1899. I worked up a super light lead load for it, and it shoots great. It looks old, it works like old, and shoots lead just fine. I'm happy with it.
The gun wasn't worth trying to preserve. Instead I got a working nineteenth century rifle I could afford. And it still looks old, pits and all.
Yes I did a bubba!
NICE. Keep doing this
Thank you for taking the time to do these videos. It's really appreciated.
Outstanding video love when something everyone says it's not worth the effort turns out just fine thank you for sharing five stars sir
Marks my most favorite guy, love seeing the firearms and your years and years and years of wisdom
The secret life of the Bergman Bayard 1910. Excellent trip down the rabbit hole.
One of the best looking firearms ever created
I'm no pro, and I do not do this for a living, but Mark and crew have Helped me learn and grow and conserve tools. Thank you, recently conserved my Grandfather's first tool he bought when he came to America, and he passed 2 weeks after I finished. 🇺🇸
Excellent video! I never miss one, you are the best life coach ever!
Another great video Mark and Bruno. Thanks
When I worked in maintenance at a local hospital 40 year's ago, we weren't aloud to use WD-40 because it collected so much dust and dirt. When I worked on the electric bed's and would have to lube them, I would use a bar of soap. I can't remember that far back, but we only used one or two kind's of soap.
Grease is oil suspended in soap after all
Seeing the baggie of corrosive ammo made me wonder just how many completely serviceable weapons were destroyed in the last twenty years or so by people not cleaning after firing them. Cheap surplus corrosive ammo and a couple of generations of shooters that have only known non-corrosive ammo is not a good combination.
I did a "Rust Blue job" with a CPAP ozone generation steaming system on a reproduction musket and pistol barrels, then for yhits and giggles? I electro plated over with a zinc (or silver? hard to remember) copper solution on one, and a zinc (or silver? hard to remember) nickel on another and it took over the rust blue? Both looked period correct lighter or darker grays, and both are very well rust resistant a year later hanging in my open shop with roll up doors open all the time day or night.
Love this stuff! Thanks SO MUCH for Providing Knowlege with new Ideas! Love how Fearless you are! Like doing CPR the patient is Dead already! you can only bring them back!
Gack, Mung, Angel Piss..... I love these videos! You are a great teacher Mark.
OUTSTANDING.
STILL THE GREATEST JOB IN THIS WORLD.
GOD BLESS
GODSPEED
Yes Sir. YOU do awesome work Mark been watching you for a few years. Love your approach to it all. Firm but very SAFE as well . Thanks for instruction without B.S 👍👍 You do your craftsmen 100% honor! You ARE A MASTER Thanks again seeya on the next.
Your constant digs at black rifles and tupperware guns always has me dying with laughter. Another stellar job as always.
That's also what clp looks like after a month.....lol. Awesome video as always.
Mark and Bruno - Thanks For Keeping History Alive...Stay Safe, God Bless...
If you put a 1” split in a chopstick, you can jam a small piece of 0000 in it and make a carting brush with actual steel wool
Damn, that's a fancy tip! Thanks dude. Twirl it around and you'd have a little steel wool Q-tip for getting into pin holes and such. Or use 0 or 00 and then use that Q-tip to torture your enemy. 🤷🏻♂️
I am successfully getting folks to THINK
I love Marks official terminology he uses..lol it's great
I've always been fascinated by this pistol and it's development. Thanks for the video!
The mechanics of old firearms is an amazing thing to behold. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for giving your method and info. I was able to pick up a ufix-it colt from century arms I was able to rust blue it this weekend. Times and humidity were a little different here in AZ but got it worked out. Thanks 👍
I was about to comment "that's very reminiscent of a C-96," when you said as much.
Which reminds me that I haven't done my usual Christmas cleaning yet... Well, I know what I'm doing tomorrow.
The fryer works great for small parts, been using mine for 30 years now. Still working.
Love your videos Mark. One of the best channels on RUclips.
Another championship winner of a program Mark. Compliments to all involved.
Another answer to a question nobody ask..
It is well known that germans love building most complicate things ever.This gun is one of them.
Great video!
She may not be the best looking girl there anymore, but she'll still be the belle of the ball.
Thanks Mark.
You guys do a great job explaining all the in's and outs. Thanks for taking the time
I like the USS Key West cover in the background.
Plankowner,,,,,,you were a bubblehead?
@@marknovak8255 A-ganger on the Key West 1993-1998. Arrived as an E-2, left an MM2.
38:55 A sure sign that someone has handled guns properly for a hell of a long time. The gun stays put in the middle of the screen and pointed down range while Mark moves back and forth multiple times and all around it. It's not just for framing.
Aaaah, this version is my favorite pistol ever! I love the chonkier grips and just the overall design of it.
And Thats why we watch this channel. Amazing work and a beautiful handgun. Thank you!
Absolutely one of my all time favorite designs.
I don't know how I missed this. Thanks, guys. I always appreciate the videos. 🤙🏾
wonderful piece, thank you chief.
I wish I could post a pic of the inside of a Colt New Service I bought when I opened it up to clean it. There was so much gunk in there I was amazed the cylinder rotated. Good video Mark.
This made my Friday night! Thank you Mark!
All ways love your videos. I hope there’s more wood working in the future see you on patreon
Well done Mark
What a great old pistol. Thank you for the tour!
I really enjoy watching your process Mark and absolutely love your commentary!
Maestro, you are the man! Primo pistolla.
The m1 carbine magazine is opposite as well, the spring needs to be oriented so it pushes up on the rear of the follower, I was having problems with my last round and realized I I put the spring oriented toward the front as you would think it should be, I verified spring toward the rear was proper with examining a few different unwrapped GI magazines,
Outstanding, as always. Thank you for your time and effort in filming these videos, gentlemen.
Electricians: Will spend hours making sure an offset in conduit is perfect for a customer. Will also spend seconds wiring up their own shit just good enough to work.
And THAT is a no shit....
Something something cobbler's son being barefoot... :-D
When I was an auto technician, my shop foreman once told me about how the oil in his truck was 9,000 miles old and the tires hadn't been rotated ever since installation when new. I was horrified. "Why??? We have a beautiful shop right here! Just clock out and do it! We yell at customers about doing maintenance on schedule but you don't do it to your truck? Wtf?" He said "I work on cars all day long. The last thing I want to do is work on one more, my own. I just want to go home and relax. On the weekend, I don't want to work on anything either. I just want to relax. It'll last long enough for me to trade it in. I don't give a shot if it lasts over 150k miles. I ain't keeping it that long." He had a point. Still, I take great care of my vehicles. I know that if you take care of them, they will last nearly forever.
As always, educational and humorous
Ah old forgotten machining techniques.
Oddly enough someone likely did free hand the machining for that side plate, but not directly. While each operation was likely done separate, a pattern maker would have likely machined a "pattern", that would then be used with a trace mill or a piloted end mill to cut the shape. After CNC machining became prevalent pattern making as a profession pretty much disappeared. As for the magazine well I would point towards a shaper or scraper. They were a quite common type of machining equipment until the 60-70s, when they fell out of favor to faster machining process. They were not well suited to the carbide transition. Then they almost completely fell out of common knowledge in the 90s after WEDM started to become more prevalent.
A shaper you say? 🤔
**ABOM79 HAS JOINED THE CHAT**
Yup, I remember hydraulic tracers going for a song at auctions back in the 80s, along with cam operated screw machines and big turret lathes. Most got stripped of what was usable and the rest scrapped.
Imagine the potential how long the guns you have saved will circle around for the next generations! Some of them will for sure be there after hundreds of years from now :)
Can't imagine trying to learn this stuff before the internet, or even worse, before books were widely available
Books are great for diagrams and some How 2..but nothing beats .hands on
I have a llama 1911 semi clone? Dont know how else to describe it. Someone tried to fit a 9mm 1911 barrel to it. Looked pretty good except the ramp was ev idently tinkered with and blew the case out into mag and mag well... yikes.
So now i load one round in mag cycle mag, then remove the mag to test fire semi auto pistols.(provided they fire with no mag of course) found an orig. Barrel and put it back. Chambered in 9 largo.
Gun is marked 9mm/38 on slide.
I can only assume 9mm largo or 38 acp.
As i dont think 38 super had really caught on in spain when gun was mfrd.
Best guess is early to mid 40's.
That 9 largo is getting hard to find. I just use 38 super brass and load to largo or acp data... its been a reliable and fun shooter...
As always, good stuff Mark.
Steinel is making 9mm Largo...just got 250 rounds from them and it looks nice. Starline is also making the brass now and then....got another 500 cases so I'm set. My FedOrd 714 Mauser C-96 is chambered in 9mm Luger but the magazines were for the 7.63 Mauser and are way too long for the Luger so it would misfeed badly. Have a chamber reamer that's going to deepen it to Largo which fits nicely in the mags. Yes it's going to be quite the Frankenstein but I'm thinking it'll work well. Oh...mags are non-existent for the Schnellfuerer's unless you want to pay $400 for an original. Gun came with a 20 and a 10 rounder but I just got a couple new 20's from Triple K that look great and were under $100. :)
I wonder if a mild acid bath... maybe as slight as pickling vinegar would remove the finish caused by the fire fighting chemical? It would only need to remove that finish. I have taken the zinc plating off of bolts in an hour with vinegar.
Love it. Posted this up on GETTR hoping others will find it entertaining.
Thanks for being so considerate to us austrians! 😁
That's quite a machine. Thanks for the video.
9 largo, 9x23, 38 super, 38acp and at least a couple im not mentioning.
I have a llama 1911 knock off, sort of chambered in that. Previous owner thought it was 9mm luger. Sigh. Fortunately it worked and didnt destroy anything. In his defense the slide is marked 38/9mm.
Meaning of course 38acp/9mm largo.
Great vid once again Mr Novak.
WD-40, I call it Die Scheiße! At 26:58 when the spanner was made for the twin hole screw I like to make the drive with two round pins in the end; in that way one won't leave burs at the edges of the holes in the screw. Alot of those pistols have to have a straight arm to fire and eject properly.
Beautiful gun, always wanted one. Locking block reminds me of my R51.
Interesting observation about the Bergman and the 1911. Can you explain the thinking of more modern guns such as the Walther GSP still using a forward of trigger magazine?
Great video Mark
Always entertaining and informative.
Really like the old gun designs, wish that new ones were made in modern chamberings.
Bravo, Mark. I don't own a Bergmann, but I've always admired their looks, similar to Mauser's C96. Regardless, I learned half a dozen useful tips for working on one's own guns. thx - Z
Dihydrogen Monoxide! I just got an order in for some for myself!
Beautifully done as always.
Cheers
I’ve learned a ton from you guys, thanks! Also, nothing like enjoying a few of Marks vids! Great content.
If the younguns can't handle a swear word or two, their survivability here in the 2020's is likely to be quite low.
Sling em Mark. They can handle it.
Yes, I agree on a puff of moisture (oil) lube it and it lasts that's what matters.
Thanks for another amazing video
I have been watching you videos for some time now, now after I boil the gun in water Can I substitute mayonnaise for the french onion dip that you spread on it after?
Dukes mayo, ONLY, for the WIN
I have that same deep fryer...to think I've only used it on food.
You solved a problem for me on my 7.65 Beretta of misfeeds I got due to the MAGAZINE SPRING NOT BEING FITTED to lift the nose of the bullet when feeding. Thank you
Skills, skills, skills.