Re: M40a1 build guide
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Turk</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Stop w/ this misinformation! The lug was welded to make it easier to line it up on the rebarrel, and the box had to be welded in to keep it from falling out. </div></div>
I owe everyone here an apology.
I'm sorry that I correlated the welding of the recoil lug to accuracy. I was trying to make a point that the Corps sometimes does things that differ from common custom gun building methods, but I was wrong to make an analogy based on something I didn't really know to be the case. If anything good came of this, it is that we now have the reason for the welding of the recoil lugs, and it makes perfect sense. Thankyou, Turk (Though, now I am wondering why they stopped the practice).
The M40A1 is the reason I am even on this forum. I have learned tons from members' posts in this thread, and I have information I am glad to share as well. It is certainly NOT my intention to start or perpetuate any misinformation. I need to be more careful.
As for my comment that welding the magazine was done partly for accuracy, I did not pull that one out of a hat. Sometime during my research around 1990 when I did my build I got that information from someone that I felt was a reliable source, and the principle behind it made perfect sense to me. It's akin to the reason clearance must be left between as many of the parts as possible so they do not touch and change the harmonics of "the system" from shot to shot.
However, having now gone back over all of my notes I see that I did not make a notation regarding this, and consequently cannot remember which source it was that told it to me. So, for what it's worth, I have no way to back it up. Really, though, for the purpose of a build guide it doesn't matter. The M40A1's had welded magazines, so that is how a build should be done.
