MP40 barrel rest

[shootyourshot]

Hello forum members

is it easy to remove the barrel rest and if so, also easy to get it back on?

cheers

[Mike Steves]

Hello forum members

is it easy to remove the barrel rest and if so, also easy to get it back on?

cheers

Pretty easy- you have to unscrew the barrel and knock the small roll pin out, it comes right off.

[shootyourshot]

hi mike

thanks for your message, but should you need to take off the barrel rest first before you can unscrew the barrel?

And afterwards how can you fix the barrelrest again?

thansk!

[Heinz Steinkopf]

Well, the barrel gets uncrewed with the barrel rest in place. It is possible because the barrel nut does not have to move along the barrel. It just rotates. But there is no need to remove the barrel before removing the pin.
What is more, if your gun is deactivated and the barrel is welded to the receiver you cannot remove it.
The pin holding the barrel rest is a kind of hollow pin a little bit unriveted at the ends to hold it in place. So you have to unrivet it again to keep it from falling out.

[shootyourshot]

thanks guys for your input.

i saw the day before yesterday an MP with in my point of view a stamped sheet metal barrel rest but i dont think it is original.

cheers

[Grossfuss]

MP40 barrel rest

Hi,
We're back on barrel rests again - see the other "MP40 with strange marking" thread!
You don't need to touch the barrel nut to remove the barrel rest.
As you drive the pin through from one side it'll get straightened as it passes through the lug on the barrel.
If one side of the pin is splayed out more than the other then use a straight pin punch on the smaller end.
When you refit the pin you'll need a larger punch with a shallow point to splay the end of the pin out again to keep it from coming out.
The pressed steel barrel rest is a late-war version - should be in one of the books - and is correct, but ugly
Hope this helps,
Grossfuss

[shootyourshot]

thanks guys for all your inputs

in my honest opinion this is not an original barrel rest from 1943:





please let me know your opinions.

[Schmeisserfan]

yes you are right , its not original

[shootyourshot]

thank you schmeisserfan and case closed i would say

[Schmeisserfan]

here you have two for comparison

the upper is the cheap metal production, the down part is alu

[shootyourshot]

thanks schmeisserfan! i have the "blitzkrieg" book and therefore i was already pretty sure that it was not original.

jsut curious: what type barrelrest should be with the 1943 one? it has the original 6 collar nut

[Schmeisserfan]

simply said , the early ones like mp38 have the aluminium barrel protectors .

Then the "bakelit" version is common and at late mp40s with late collar nut ( 2 sided) , often the cheap metal version is seen .

At a mp40 with 1943 and 6 side collar nut you can take the standard bakelit

[Schmeisserfan]

here a standard bakelit, unfortunately dammaged a bid in the front .

[shootyourshot]

many thanks schmeisserfan!

i will inform him that he should search one as this would make it most complete!!

again many thanks

[Schmeisserfan]

many thanks schmeisserfan!

i will inform him that he should search one as this would make it most complete!!

again many thanks

you are welcome

I myself don´t put the barrel protectors on the mp38s , because I like it more without and furthermore I don´t fire from a armored vehicle