Can you identify this?
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MMCSRET
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Spring loaded tuning fork used to tune the teeth on the bucket of a late model Komatsu Tracked Excavator.
Sav .250
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Should have left the cover on. I might have gotten it... 
EmbarkChief
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Vickers MK1?
Spandau?
Spandau?
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pockets
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Spandau Ballet ?
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Give us another hint picture.
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Probably some sort of charging handle for aircraft installation circa. WW1?
Vaarok, you're close - and so is EmbarkChief. It's an LMG (Luft Machinen Gewehr) 08/15, the aerial version of the 08/15 Maxim. The water jacket was perforated heavily and it was mounted on fighter aircraft with a synchronizer to fire through the prop. They were all made at Spandau, and this one is all-matching and dated 1918. This one happens to be for sale, if you want it.
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Have we found the Red Baron?
Someone tell Snoopy... quick!
Kaeto
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"Curses! Foiled again!"
Franco2shoot
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What calibre is it? I only have tins of 7.62r
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sansone
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how many "please honey" did it set you back?
sansone
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Franco, it's in 8mm Mauser.
I don't own it myself - it's being sold by a dealer friend of mine. I'll be posting the full video on it Friday, and I'll include his contact info for anyone who is interested (surely there's someone out there who didn't have to trade in their Fokker ).
I don't own it myself - it's being sold by a dealer friend of mine. I'll be posting the full video on it Friday, and I'll include his contact info for anyone who is interested (surely there's someone out there who didn't have to trade in their Fokker
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I saw where the Chinese built one under license in 7.62x54r Wow!
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So the Germans got to go up against their own machine gun design on the eastern front in WWI.
Innovative industrial nations participating in the international arms trade makes no sense to me.
Cosmoline
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Actually Europe as a whole got to go up against the AMERICAN Maxim gun. Hiram was US born inventor who was living in Europe and came up with the machine gun as a way to make money off that continent's crazy arms race. He sold it to England, Germany, Russia, and anyone else who wanted it. It was used by colonial British forces decades before WWI. It's come to be associated with Germany only after the great war, though the Brits certainly had their own versions in the field.
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