Witness Marks Report--Revised and Expanded

JR. · 09-07-2003, 10:57 PM

In reading all the above posts, and drawing on my own observations & experience.... I have to side with Jim's and Viggo's theory on Luger barrel manufacture and assembly.... I believe there are two schools of thought here, one being the way they said they did, (or were supposed to do) the assembly, and the other being the way it was really done! I have stamped thousands of wittness marks over my thirty plus years of being a small engine mechanic... and rarely if ever, they turn out like a Luger barrel & receiver mark... 99% of the time, they look just as they did in Dwights tests! (Impressive tests Dwight!) I think that the marks were made as Jim described, and lined up somewhere down the road... marks could come from the same tool, as they may of had one technition doing all the marks and indexing....it may all be theory, but for any one who have ever attempted to mass produce something on primitive machines (by today's standards) realizes quickly that any step you can combine or delete, is a monster time saver... so, be careful about taking everything you read as fact... you would be surprised how many shortcuts are attempted in any type of production effort..... Till...later....GT

09-07-2003, 10:57 PM	#19
JR. User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Flagstaff, AZ Posts: 31 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	In reading all the above posts, and drawing on my own observations & experience.... I have to side with Jim's and Viggo's theory on Luger barrel manufacture and assembly.... I believe there are two schools of thought here, one being the way they said they did, (or were supposed to do) the assembly, and the other being the way it was really done! I have stamped thousands of wittness marks over my thirty plus years of being a small engine mechanic... and rarely if ever, they turn out like a Luger barrel & receiver mark... 99% of the time, they look just as they did in Dwights tests! (Impressive tests Dwight!) I think that the marks were made as Jim described, and lined up somewhere down the road... marks could come from the same tool, as they may of had one technition doing all the marks and indexing....it may all be theory, but for any one who have ever attempted to mass produce something on primitive machines (by today's standards) realizes quickly that any step you can combine or delete, is a monster time saver... so, be careful about taking everything you read as fact... you would be surprised how many shortcuts are attempted in any type of production effort..... Till...later....GT