8/7/2023 0 Comments Sten mk ii folding stockThe receiver has been made from 40mm ERW tube, I milled out the feed port, ejection port and operating handle slot. On this build this is a separate part welded onto the tube as this is far easier to make without a press-brake. The top bar on the original, which holds the foresight, is a seam which is spot welded. Inside the receiver the hop unit had to be turned down on the lathe to fit the narrower tube. The base parts for this build came from an AGM Sten MkII, the gearbox and modified hop unit. With the exception of the trigger group, bolt and barrel parts, these were entirely stamped steel making them ideal for mass-production, though presented some difficulty in reproducing in my workshop as a result. One thing I have never seen is an airsoft Sten MkIII: These were quite common in the Northern Europe campaign and were as simple as British-built Stens ever got. From the original Sten MkI, to the obscure Sten MkIV and the frankly weird Cornershot Mk5 I’ve built a few. I’ve both seen and built quite a lot of different models of Stens.
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