Snail Mag TM 08

Patrick · 04-23-2001, 05:06 PM

LITLBILLCR@aol.com sent me a query which I answered but the mail was returned.You should be able to get between nine and eleven rounds into the snail mag without the loading tool. Maybe you didnÃ?Â´t first wind the handle and fix it in position with the spring loaded button. Tools are hard to come by and the TM 08 cannot be loaded without one. Only one tool was issued with five snail mags so they are harder to find than the mag itself. The tool costs about 1500 Marks here (whatever that may be in $s).It certainly is an experience to fast fire the 32 rounds - and it warms up the barrel.Patrick

John Sabato · 04-23-2001, 05:29 PM

The checkered button is the magazine catch, and the horizontal piece to the right of the button is the mag button spring, but I still want to know how working the lever loads a cartridge if anyone can explain it or post an illustration or photos.

thanks,

John Sabato

04-23-2001, 05:47 PM

John, As with most mag loaders, when you push down the lever, this pushes down the rounds already in the tube and allows you to slide in another round part way into the lips. When you release the lever, you can then push the new round the rest of the way back, and then repeat the process. This is certainly no Ramline, throw the rounds in a box and just push a button, but this is how all of the SMG loaders I've seen work. Depending on the strenght of the spring in your particular TM, the most I've ever been able to load by hand is 25. I may have a line on some repro loaders, made just like the original in the $350 to 400 range.

04-23-2001, 09:10 PM

I have a number of original Lugers I shoot all the time-I have a drum mag-paid a grand for it-I can remember when they were $19.95.

As nice an item as it is I would NEVER load it-break that huge sealed 84 year old spring and you are duly and truly screwed. Just from fooling around with it and knowing about GI's in general I think there must have been a lot of interesting injuries associated with these things.- My $.02 MikeP

04-23-2001, 11:16 PM

I too received an email and it bounced back when I tried to respond to it. Litlbill, if you read this, I do have blueprints for the snail drum, but I do not see how they would help your problem... Feel free to contact me for copies, I can email them, they files are large, the quality is not that great, but all the parts are dimensioned. FGR

04-23-2001, 05:06 PM	#1
Patrick User Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 241 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Snail Mag TM 08 LITLBILLCR@aol.com sent me a query which I answered but the mail was returned.You should be able to get between nine and eleven rounds into the snail mag without the loading tool. Maybe you didnÃ?Â´t first wind the handle and fix it in position with the spring loaded button. Tools are hard to come by and the TM 08 cannot be loaded without one. Only one tool was issued with five snail mags so they are harder to find than the mag itself. The tool costs about 1500 Marks here (whatever that may be in $s).It certainly is an experience to fast fire the 32 rounds - and it warms up the barrel.Patrick

04-23-2001, 05:29 PM	#2
John Sabato Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,156 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,309 Times in 1,098 Posts	Snail Mag TM 08 Loading tool question... Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,156 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,309 Times in 1,098 Posts	Okay, so I just figured out part of it, who has the rest of the story? The checkered button is the magazine catch, and the horizontal piece to the right of the button is the mag button spring, but I still want to know how working the lever loads a cartridge if anyone can explain it or post an illustration or photos. thanks, John Sabato

04-23-2001, 05:47 PM	#4
tom heller Guest Posts: n/a	Re: TM loaders John, As with most mag loaders, when you push down the lever, this pushes down the rounds already in the tube and allows you to slide in another round part way into the lips. When you release the lever, you can then push the new round the rest of the way back, and then repeat the process. This is certainly no Ramline, throw the rounds in a box and just push a button, but this is how all of the SMG loaders I've seen work. Depending on the strenght of the spring in your particular TM, the most I've ever been able to load by hand is 25. I may have a line on some repro loaders, made just like the original in the $350 to 400 range.

04-23-2001, 09:10 PM	#5
Mike P Guest Posts: n/a	Re: TM loaders I have a number of original Lugers I shoot all the time-I have a drum mag-paid a grand for it-I can remember when they were $19.95. As nice an item as it is I would NEVER load it-break that huge sealed 84 year old spring and you are duly and truly screwed. Just from fooling around with it and knowing about GI's in general I think there must have been a lot of interesting injuries associated with these things.- My $.02 MikeP

04-23-2001, 11:16 PM	#6
FGR Guest Posts: n/a	Re: LITLBILLCR I too received an email and it bounced back when I tried to respond to it. Litlbill, if you read this, I do have blueprints for the snail drum, but I do not see how they would help your problem... Feel free to contact me for copies, I can email them, they files are large, the quality is not that great, but all the parts are dimensioned. FGR