Belt-filling machine
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- One of the most popular items in the Association’s collection, here is the belt-filling machine in the most detail you’ll ever see. Nothing to distract you from the sounds and movement of the mechanics that were so essential to the machine gun team.
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I've left this on repeat on the telly, the dog loves it. No narration needed, you can eventually work out what does what. Great mini video!
Glad the dog enjoys it!
The belt filling machine is quite mesmeriseing to watch, could definitely watch it on a loop for days.
Well, the one million round edition would be about 11 days. Perhaps a little too long! Glad you found it interesting.
Mesmerising and so satisfying to watch. Victorian/Edwardian engineering, beautiful to look at, complicated, but it works - great video, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! It's an excellent piece of equipment and one that has been so useful to us over the past few years.
Heath Robinson meets steam punk. What a wonderful device.
Built by a bicycle manufacturer!
@@vickersmg I thought it might have been made by a sewing machine company.
@philbosworth3789 there are certainly similarities in the action.
What a simple yet fascinating machine
It’s great Gary. Always a star during our open days.
Belt-filling machine beats to listen to while you're stuck in the frontline
The frontline needs all the calming it can get!
Great video. Almost hypnotic. What a wonderful original machine.
Many thanks! It was recently refurbished by one of our members but it's doing incredibly well for June 1917 production! It's loaded at least 20,000 rounds for us in the last few years.
@@vickersmg1917. Wonderful. They don’t make them like that anymore.
Lovely!
It’s a great piece of kit!
This is literally how it was in the WW1 trenches.
Well this was a bit more relaxed than the trenches!
If there was a way to have a hand crank mag loader for your major pistol and rifle platforms it would be a big boon to those of us with arthritis in our hands. This system just seems to work so smoothly.
I have link loaders for all my MGs except the VICKER'S. They are savers from very sore fingers!! But, Wish I had this loader.
We've looked at several ways of reproducing it over the years but they're always too expensive to be viable really. If we can find a way to make a practical reliable reproduction, we will.
@@vickersmg There was someone state side that produced a linker for clothe belts, but I would need to check. Its operation is like several I have that link the metal links similar to the 50 cal. M7 linker. I bought an attachment that I am adding to my M7 linker that will load 30-06 links used in the FN38s. Some of these were only a one time production run. I will to see if there are any around fir clothe belts.
@mikespurg8006 we’ve seen the linkers but the ones we’ve seen are quite weak on anything but well-used cloth belts. Those just really can’t be easily re-used without lots of stoppages!
Very nice!
Glad you think so!
how old is this loading mechanism?
This one was made in June 1917.