Are Broomhandle slides interchangable

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by alanint

The scene where this is most obvious is where Luke swings himself and Leia over to a port in the Death Star, where they get trapped on the ledge. As Luke fires back at Storm Troopers across the gap, you can see the brass ejecting from his blaster and hitting the wall next to him.

I'll have to dig out my DVD and watch it again. Since they re-numbered them, I've lost track of which was the 'original' Star Wars...And some of mine were copied from cable so they were edited & formatted blah blah...

I might not have the whole collection...How many were there???

Originally Posted by flytrout

Are Broomhandle slides (barrels) interchangable. Like Bolo, M30, etc

I think the short answer is if they were from the same year the slide/barrel extensions are interchangeable...I have one with a non-matching cannon assembly which works OK but the safety is very tight...It works, just needs some muscle...I should lap it in but I'm lazy...

An early slide definitely won't interchange...See pics below...Besides the obvious differences, the newer C96 bolt won't go past the magazine well in the older extension...The rail cuts don't extend forward far enough...