Need Help Id’ing these Firing Pins
Posted by walkah96@reddit | ForgottenWeapons | View on Reddit | 7 comments
So I bought a parts lot full of random Italian, German, and US WWII and WWI gun parts and I’ve found these massive firing pins that I have no clue what they go to. They are fire blued and fluted. Does anyone have any idea what they go to? I was thinking they are for some sort of open bolt lmg or smg because it looks like they could be in a fixed position. Please help a feller out here.
Adventurous-Tie-1624@reddit
Looks vaguely german to me, so I'd be looking at the small aircraft cannons like the MG151.
walkah96@reddit (OP)
Yeah I think it’s something German. It’s pretty similar looking to a mg34 pin. I wish I could find pictures of firing pins for those. I’ve tried a google search for auto cannon firing pins but as you can imagine I can’t find any pictures of the components.
Adventurous-Tie-1624@reddit
Well, I scanned through the aircraft cannon section of Chinn's MG Book and didn't see it, but could have missed it, or it was a gun that didn't have a breakdown view.
https://archive.org/download/TheMachineGunVolume1ByGeorgeMChinn/The%20Machine%20Gun%20Volume%201%20by%20George%20M%20Chinn.pdf
Brandon_awarea@reddit
Are you sure those aren’t hammer punches? They look absolutely massive to be a firing pin. Unless it’s an artillery piece, cannon, or something like that.
walkah96@reddit (OP)
The closes comparison I can find is an mg34 pin but it’s still not the same. It could be for an artillery piece. I didn’t think about that.
walkah96@reddit (OP)
The back end isn’t flat. Only reason why I think they aren’t punches.
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