So your Thompson's barrel exploded...
 

Seems to be a tradition among Marui M1A1 users to have their barrel - receiver piece break in half from being made of terrible quality metals. So after much deliberation with glue, extra screws, and whatever else I could muster and pass off as feasible in holding the bastard together, I sort of gave up.

So then I remembered, "hey wait the internet."

There's a guy in Britain who seems to be selling barrel fix kits for the M1A1's retardation issue, though he's a bit far for my liking, especially when the last post about the issue was half a year ago or so.

Anybody know someone who can get some of these kits, or similar things done more... local? Or if they can give a link to maybe... an in stock CAW 1928 kit (because those don't have the barrel issue)?

Thank you for your assistance.

tl;dr:
My Thompson's barrel snapped, anybody know a fix?

Ask Vondnik (a mod on ASC). He's done some neat things with Thompsons.

Contact Hortons heros he rigged something up a while back. I think he got a guy to weld it back together... made some nifty contraption, and fixed his broken barrel and made it look normal again.

[edit] Here's some pictures of his fix:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...1/DSCF0892.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...1/DSCF0891.jpg

Sorry for such big pictures, I do not have enough time to make them smaller.

Fader on this board made up his own reinforcement, he can probably help you out.

http://www.pbase.com/vondnik/image/28046924.jpg

or

http://www.pbase.com/vondnik/image/24559588.jpg

I would have to look but I think I still have that outer barrel here somewhere if your interested

Hot stuff. Turn a highcap into a drum mag and you're all set.

i've got an outer barrel i'd be willing to part with - or i can likely fix and reinforce yours too - pm me for details. I'll see if i can post up some pics of my new outer barrel....

trying to fix my m1a1
 

hey guys i had lent my thompson to a friend for the day and he managed to break the famous outter barrel of the tommy gun. just wonderin if anyone has an old outter barrel they might be willing to part with

thanks, SARGE

Little fyi here, post something like that in the wanted section, don't necro for somebody to tell you this.

He can't post in the wanted section, he's not age verified...

wondering if anyone has tried using a super strong epoxy to make the fix??

That's what I ended up doing. Should be good for a temporary fix, but I feel it may come loose eventually.

ya i just finished doin it actualy. i picked up some mightyputty (as seen on tv) put some across where it broke and it seems to have made enough of a hold to keep it from wobbling.as long as i dont lend it out to anyone that is goin to smash it again i think im good to go.