S&T/AGM MG42 Bipod failure!

[rsvpiper]

Saturday some numpty knocked over my lads mg42 snapping the bipod off

Does anyone know of a decent replacement part or fix for this?

I've ordered a complete bipod from a shop in HK £70! 

Don't have much faith that it'll last any better!

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[Adolf Hamster]

i recall having a similar failure, think i tapped through and ran a bolt through, iirc the head of the bolt restricted the amount it could tilt but that just meant it was easier to leave the gun sitting on its own.

surplus might be an option, think some of the later/foreign adaptions of the platform would be sufficiently compatible and not have the "ww2 german" tax.

 

[Austeyr]

surplus might be an option

https://www.dandbmilitaria.com/german-military-mg3-bipod-g1 - £50

Sadly AGM's are notoriously weak, putting a real bipod on will probably need some work though

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Sadly AGM's are notoriously weak, putting a real bipod on will probably need some work though

Indeed, dropped mine and it bent like a bannana, took a while to straighten it back out and run 2 big bars on the inside of the reciever to reinforce it.

Fella i sold it to also recognised them as being made of pasta

 

[Austeyr]

Indeed, dropped mine and it bent like a bannana, took a while to straighten it back out and run 2 big bars on the inside of the reciever to reinforce it.

Fella i sold it to also recognised them as being made of pasta

I’ve had 3 over the years. Every one of them got sent back

The first one, within half an hour of using it for the first time I had the pistol grip half of the gearbox fall out causing the rest of the replica to hit the ground. If I remember correctly the pot metal had sheered off around where it secured to the upper/rest of the replica

The second one arrived with the metal bent where the stock slotted in which meant you couldn’t attach the stock at all, sent it back and got it replaced and the replacement ended up with the mag tray bending itself from the weight of its own drum mag just from testing it at home

The third one externally was fine, however there was basically no air seal so it was pushing maybe 100 fps so that also got sent back

I gave up after that

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Yeah the split gearbox design is aoe problem central, i very quickly gave up on it running as an aeg.

It became a testbed for shenanigans for a while until i eventually had a polarstar jack spare and a nozzle long enough to turn down to suit.

Fixed the mag issue by heretically grafting a mount to fit an m249 box mag

But even then it was just too big and cumbersome to be useful in game so i gave up on it.