22 LR upper

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Originally Posted by Rick W.

I am unfamiliar with these rimfire conversion systems other than talking with a few members from across the big pond. Most said that I really did not need one, but of course, that just got me interested as usual.

I was trying to understand how an extractor affixed to the magazine lips could function. A picture might be worth a thousand words. Or was ejector meant? Some H.S. magazines had a fixed ejector I believe on the magazine.......kinda reaching there on my recollection.

My High Standard friends tell me that some late model H.S. rapid fire auto pistols in 22 short had no extractor, and just relied on the blow back.

I remember a picture on this forum of a Swiss single shot conversion for a Luger that used an offset bore, it was a handsomely done job and worked as a single shot only.

Just wondering how the Erma kits looked and the extractor thing or not thing.

Rick W.

Rick-o,

I just fixed the typo/brain fart in my previous post. I meant "ejector"!

For how it looks, here's a link to the SE-08/2 manual: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/38601646...stol-%28PDF%29 I like this version the best because unlike the model kit I have, the SE-08 http://stevespages.com/pdf/erma_se08-2_interarmco.pdf , the toggle knobs are round and knurled like the original P.08's, opposed to a pair of flippers like all the other models.

Please notice, gentlemen, the squarish structure on the breech end of the barrel insert. This is what indexes the unit's extractor cut because it won't fit in any other way. The feed ramp is attached to this "block" on the 08/2 model. The 08, you can see in the pics, has none.

And yes, an extractor is largely unnecessary on a straight (no delay) blow-back system pistol, as exemplified by my good ol' Ermas. I have two that arrived sans extractor and related parts. The KGP 68A in .380 works fine, its .32 auto brother about 95%. An extractor tends to guarantee effective extraction to a higher degree, though.

Ed, I don't think you're that far away from something that would sort of work. And I've seen partial kits, just the toggle train in particular, offered up online. Mags appear sporadically (I just bought a third from a forum member) and go for around seventy to a hundred bucks. One would at least have to acquire the toggle train for a check fit, and take it from there; but like I say, you're not far off.