The cool thing is that none of these concepts are incredibly complex, the feeding mechanisms are modeled after revolvers it seems and how they actuate, the hydraulic buffer is pretty basic if you know how pistons work, the firing mechanism is very simple with it basically firing as soon as the rate of fire adjuster is moved to fire, the locking mechanism is fairly simple also with it just being the toggle the blocks the barrel and the recoil springs are just basic springs. It's of course complex but the concepts themselves are old and don't require extremely high levels of understand of the concepts. It's kind of the same with mini guns, they're complex but the concepts are pretty simple.
Thanks for all your comments. I have now put all my machine gun animations onto a DVD. video size is 1024 x 768, and they look good when played on a large screen TV. If you would like a copy, please email me for costs and postage.
So far, 11 people hate education. Such great animation. The build up from simple to more complex is excellent. Museums should be using this kind of animation in multimedia presentations on firearms.
@Stripdancer100. Thanks for your comments. I am just about through my 'machine gun' phase, and will be moving on to other topics shortly. I suspect the Russian gun is also too modern. I have been looking at guns designed before 1900. However, thanks for pointing me at this gun. I will have a look, but at the rate I build models, it could be years, if at all. Rob
The structure of firearms of belt feeder system was the mystery of the life maximum. At last I am able to be understood to see this animation. It is the best animation. Thank you!!!
Thankfully, most of the other belt-feed machine guns use much simpler systems. The only thing where you can see such complexity is the M134 Minigun belt delinker module.
Fantastic animation. I'm here after watching the Forgotten Weapons video on this gun. I still don't understand the forward delay mechanism. If you ever revisit this topic, it would be nice to see how that section worked. Thanks for showing what you did. That belt feeding mechanism is really cool to see.
@@davidschneider9145 what I don't get is that when the oil bleeds out through the bleed hole on that hydraulic bit where does it go and how is it recycled ( I guess it'd have to be) into it?
I would absolutely love to get my hands on the technical drawings of that. I bet I know enough machinist and gun guys to make up a replica, maybe even enough to form 1 it and see if we could get it shooting blackpowder loads again.
having seen forgotten weapon's minigun video, i have to say that feed mechanism bears a striking resemblance to the minigun delinker. pull out of the belt onto another spool, then rotate into gun.
A very roundabout way of feeding and firing a gun, but the way you presented it made great sense and I was able to follow along. Greetings from Forgotten Weapons.
No one from Forgotten Weapons yet? Really? Interesting... Thanks for this "exploded view" of the Maxim gun working, Mr. vbbsmyt! Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons made a video on this gun for his channel but since he could not take it apart, he linked to this video of your 3D animated model and it's fantastic!!!
No trigger. There is a firing rate lever on the right side of casing. Move that to the firing rate you require (from 2 per minute to max speed). OK, if you have just invented the world's first automatic weapon, not all your ideas turn out to be useful... Maxim dropped the firing rate control for his Intermediate model, and subsequent machine guns. R
Maximum definitely should have came out with a way to disconnect that lever when it was functioning so it was non-reciprocating kind of like a button in the center or something cuz getting whacked by that would probably break your arm.
Even if he would have put the lever on the other side so you can actuate the safety and the rate of fire safely without having to worry about getting your arm whacked off would have been a much safer and the smarter design.
This is an animation of the first EVER complete automatic machine gun. It is a prototype, and people build prototypes to see IF their idea will work, HOW it works and to give ideas on how to improve it. Criticising a Prototype because it does not have all the refinements of later designs is not a very sensible or intelligent use of your time. You should look at how the refinements introduced in later prototypes and transitional designs evolved into the World Standard Maxim gun.
This was the very first automatic machine gun ever invented. Maxim’s idea at that time was to be able to control the firing rate, so the external lever (0:52) is used to initiate firing. The firing rate lever is linked to a hydraulic valve at the front of the gun, which controls the speed of the recoil. The lever also rotates a quadrant on the same shaft. At 1:35 you can see that this quadrant trips the firing pin. When the firing rate lever is at ‘zero’ the quadrant is clear of the firing lever. However, once firing starts, the cocking lever is rotating back and forth rapidly, so be very careful when you want to stop firing. Later versions of the prototype did have a traditional trigger at the rear handle, but this animations show his first design.
@@CaptainGrief66 No this was a Black Power Prototype, smokeless powder would not come out for a few more years. Later mass-production models would use smokeless powder
good god, and I thought that his later designs were complicated, Maxim really was a genius.
The real genius of Maxim was that he got the later guns to do the same thing but with less parts
The cool thing is that none of these concepts are incredibly complex, the feeding mechanisms are modeled after revolvers it seems and how they actuate, the hydraulic buffer is pretty basic if you know how pistons work, the firing mechanism is very simple with it basically firing as soon as the rate of fire adjuster is moved to fire, the locking mechanism is fairly simple also with it just being the toggle the blocks the barrel and the recoil springs are just basic springs.
It's of course complex but the concepts themselves are old and don't require extremely high levels of understand of the concepts. It's kind of the same with mini guns, they're complex but the concepts are pretty simple.
This was a Black powder machine gun
Ian from forgotten weapons sent me here. This is really incredible!
Thanks for all your comments. I have now put all my machine gun animations onto a DVD. video size is 1024 x 768, and they look good when played on a large screen TV. If you would like a copy, please email me for costs and postage.
someone should make CAD files for this, it'd be a great time.
So far, 11 people hate education.
Such great animation. The build up from simple to more complex is excellent. Museums should be using this kind of animation in multimedia presentations on firearms.
The rotary "magazine" piece looks almost like how a ball-point pen works.
Or maybe it's the other way around. :B
Ever heard of the Panckor Jackhammer? It‘s a gas-operated fully automatic shotgun revolver that uses the same technique to rotate the cylinder
@Stripdancer100. Thanks for your comments. I am just about through my 'machine gun' phase, and will be moving on to other topics shortly. I suspect the Russian gun is also too modern. I have been looking at guns designed before 1900. However, thanks for pointing me at this gun. I will have a look, but at the rate I build models, it could be years, if at all. Rob
The structure of firearms of belt feeder system was the mystery of the life maximum.
At last I am able to be understood to see this animation.
It is the best animation.
Thank you!!!
Thankfully, most of the other belt-feed machine guns use much simpler systems. The only thing where you can see such complexity is the M134 Minigun belt delinker module.
Fantastic animation. I'm here after watching the Forgotten Weapons video on this gun.
I still don't understand the forward delay mechanism. If you ever revisit this topic, it would be nice to see how that section worked.
Thanks for showing what you did. That belt feeding mechanism is really cool to see.
Pay attention to the small pieces on top. The striker drops when it hits this thing on the control lever for the rate of fire. Hope that helps
@@davidschneider9145 what I don't get is that when the oil bleeds out through the bleed hole on that hydraulic bit where does it go and how is it recycled ( I guess it'd have to be) into it?
Ian / Forgotten Weapons brought be here. Awesome work.
Forgotten Weapons got me here. Nice animation, really educational, thanks!
It's like a giant full auto revolvercylinder fed from a belt! Amazing!!!But indeed too complicated for field use.
Not to mention the fouling from the black power cartridge that this used
I would absolutely love to get my hands on the technical drawings of that. I bet I know enough machinist and gun guys to make up a replica, maybe even enough to form 1 it and see if we could get it shooting blackpowder loads again.
wonderful design ,rigging , animation & produce the final output
having seen forgotten weapon's minigun video, i have to say that feed mechanism bears a striking resemblance to the minigun delinker. pull out of the belt onto another spool, then rotate into gun.
Greetings from Forgotten Weapons! Thanks for the animation!
I just found this video because of Forgotten Weapons. Great content.
Love your work man. best of the best.
Forgotten Weapons brought me here. Wow, a lot of moving parts, what a complex system, gun designers are are very smart.
A very roundabout way of feeding and firing a gun, but the way you presented it made great sense and I was able to follow along. Greetings from Forgotten Weapons.
This fired black powder cartridges. I'd love to see how much smoke it put out at a high rate if fire.
Thank you for your hadworking to make it easier to understand, for me and anybody sake who want to know, keep doing it man!
Very nice job on making this!
God, what would the poor bastard do if it jammed?
Surrender I imagine.
Repair the part on his little trench lathe.....lol
curse and pound on the mechanism until the enemy persuaded him to be quiet
rack the bolt back and forth a few times was the official procedure
Amazing work, very well done!!!
No one from Forgotten Weapons yet? Really? Interesting...
Thanks for this "exploded view" of the Maxim gun working, Mr. vbbsmyt! Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons made a video on this gun for his channel but since he could not take it apart, he linked to this video of your 3D animated model and it's fantastic!!!
Excellent. Thanks to 'Forgotten Weapons' for pointing this site out.
Great animation man, i love your work. I have been watching all of your videos
Nice.
it's..... beautiful.... thx so much for making it. I understand now.
Outstanding job
Intriguing that it works like a piston and conrod setup in a combustion engine only the crank alternates 180 degrees instead of rotating 360 degrees
Wonderful animation! Ian from Forgotten Weapons sends us :)
Hmmm....an interesting depiction of what was to become a very formidable weapon !
Sure seems like any old gun from the 1940s or today would have been SOOO much simpler but back then this was the simplest they had
i am citing this video in mla format for a process description report thank you sm
Ian of Forgotten Weapons sent me here!
Great job illustraating!!!
Wow, thats complicated as hell. The rotating cylinder inside seems similar to a modern revolver cannon
Amazing animation explanation; thanks.
Nice the guy definitely knew his shit
This is Fantastic
Forgotten Weapons sent me here!
Thank you
Soooo... Where's the trigger that you pull to shoot?
No trigger. There is a firing rate lever on the right side of casing. Move that to the firing rate you require (from 2 per minute to max speed). OK, if you have just invented the world's first automatic weapon, not all your ideas turn out to be useful... Maxim dropped the firing rate control for his Intermediate model, and subsequent machine guns. R
But then how do you fire if no trigger? Just raise that firing rate lever and it starts shooting by itself?
yup
It's that forward handle. The further back you pull it, the faster the gun fires. It can fire any range from 2 RPM to 600 RPM.
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nise job!
Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim Gun, and they have not
Maximum definitely should have came out with a way to disconnect that lever when it was functioning so it was non-reciprocating kind of like a button in the center or something cuz getting whacked by that would probably break your arm.
Even if he would have put the lever on the other side so you can actuate the safety and the rate of fire safely without having to worry about getting your arm whacked off would have been a much safer and the smarter design.
This is an animation of the first EVER complete automatic machine gun. It is a prototype, and people build prototypes to see IF their idea will work, HOW it works and to give ideas on how to improve it. Criticising a Prototype because it does not have all the refinements of later designs is not a very sensible or intelligent use of your time. You should look at how the refinements introduced in later prototypes and transitional designs evolved into the World Standard Maxim gun.
Because its so quiet, thing firing always jumpscares me
Maaan, does it mean that a shooter had to pull a lever several times for the very first cartridge to get into the barrel???
Yes, remember that this was the first EVER automatic machine gun, so Maxim's design worked until he understoood more and better ways. Rob
elegant indeed....
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Wow. Complicated Great video 🥇🏆
Forgotten Weapons brought me here :)
Как он стрелял с дымным порохом?Ничего же не видно!)
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Feeding the rounds from the belt into the cylinder and into the chamber had to be simplified.
Here from Forgotten Weapons.
i love your work.
give me moar!
video like #223
Automated steampunk belt fed black powder revolver))
...am I being dumb, or is anyone else having trouble finding where the trigger is? Or is the fire rate lever also the trigger?
This was the very first automatic machine gun ever invented. Maxim’s idea at that time was to be able to control the firing rate, so the external lever (0:52) is used to initiate firing. The firing rate lever is linked to a hydraulic valve at the front of the gun, which controls the speed of the recoil. The lever also rotates a quadrant on the same shaft. At 1:35 you can see that this quadrant trips the firing pin. When the firing rate lever is at ‘zero’ the quadrant is clear of the firing lever. However, once firing starts, the cocking lever is rotating back and forth rapidly, so be very careful when you want to stop firing. Later versions of the prototype did have a traditional trigger at the rear handle, but this animations show his first design.
@@vbbsmyt Ahh, thank you! I appreciate the explanation. That's actually interesting that he built a fire rate control into it.
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I see where ballpoint pens got their design from.
Ian sent me here
Ian sent me.
Forgotten weapons crew? Anyone?
Almost looks like a 30-30 round
Wait how to fire that
Move the firing Rate lever from Safe to the firing rate required. See video 1:00
Thank!
Did anyone else jump at the first shot? XD
Anyone else here from Ian's channel?
A black powder machine gun...
That would be the Gatling, automatic firearms are pretty much impossible to make using black powder.
@@CaptainGrief66 This Maxim was made for black powder.
@@CaptainGrief66 No this was a Black Power Prototype, smokeless powder would not come out for a few more years. Later mass-production models would use smokeless powder
Good video. Only the sound of the shots makes my ears bleed
Who else is here from the new forgotten weapons video?
Who else is here from Forgotten Weapons?
твою ж дивизию..
Ian sent me here, good vid
Great video, thank you. I wonder if you would like to make an animation about Russian heavy machine gun known as KPV-14.5