Luger Artillery Barrel manufacturing question

John Sabato · 07-13-2003, 12:48 PM

Just got an answer to my question from a fellow Luger enthusiast (Jan Balcar) in the Czech Republic who is a member of Jan Still's Axis pistol's forum...

here is what he reported:

<blockquote>quote:<hr />"Lugers barels (and Artillery probably too) were machined from round steel rod. At first the barrels were drilled, then machined outer sufaces, then rifled and at last the rifling was polished. Polishing was made with very interesting process: Steel rod 6 mm diameter pushed into the barrel, then was a part of barrel inner space filled with small volume molted lead. So become a casting the same measure like barrel about 1" lenght. Then lubricated with oil & emery and polished in special machine. Cartidge chamber was a last operation. I heard it from former Czech slavic workers they are in 1940Ã?Â´s "Totaleingesetzt" in Mauser factory."<hr /></blockquote>Hope you all found this of interest.

07-13-2003, 12:48 PM	#1
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	Just got an answer to my question from a fellow Luger enthusiast (Jan Balcar) in the Czech Republic who is a member of Jan Still's Axis pistol's forum... here is what he reported: </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">"Lugers barels (and Artillery probably too) were machined from round steel rod. At first the barrels were drilled, then machined outer sufaces, then rifled and at last the rifling was polished. Polishing was made with very interesting process: Steel rod 6 mm diameter pushed into the barrel, then was a part of barrel inner space filled with small volume molted lead. So become a casting the same measure like barrel about 1" lenght. Then lubricated with oil & emery and polished in special machine. Cartidge chamber was a last operation. I heard it from former Czech slavic workers they are in 1940Ã?Â´s "Totaleingesetzt" in Mauser factory."</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Hope you all found this of interest. __________________ regards, -John S "...We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL *and are endowed by their Creator* with certain UNALIENABLE* rights, and among these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness..."*