I've been a machinist for over 30 years. My skills transferred over the ages from working on manual equipment to CNC many years ago. I also developed a passion for the engineering of firearms in my youth. This video exemplifies not only the respect for historical firearm design and preservation, but more importantly, the craft of the machinist. Much kudos to you for reminding all of us who have ever put tool to metal what the craft can create.
I sure didn’t. I scoffed at a guy who wanted $50 to press bearings in a Suzuki spindle. I went home, messed up 2 sets of bearings, then payed him to do It
I know someone who has a Bergmann in his collection. Some previous owner de-mil'd it by taking a cutting torch and doing a real bad number to the bolt and receiver. It's enough to make you cry, but it was either that or have the whole thing smelted.
As a guy setting up a gunsmithing shop currently getting tooling and FFL and licensing I would love to pay a visit to Marks shop. I can’t get enough of this mans work. A true artist of the trade.
Mark, Ian, and Othias are the three best things to ever happen to TH-cam. I havent watched regular TV in years Honorable mentions for Mark Felton, Drachinifel, and Indy Neidell too
That is so cool. I'm a collector and I love that firearm. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend time at the gunsmiths at the gun shop/range that I worked at. I got to do the final firing of the firearms that our gunsmiths fixed and sent a target and brass with the firearms to the customers. I was able to fix a Browning A5 that my dad bought for $2.50 for at a garage sale because they thought 5he barrel was bad and it didn't fire. It turned out that the bolt block was bad and the gunsmiths taught me how to machine the bolt block to get the action to work. I spent about 8 and a half hours to fix it. It would have taken a real gunsmith about a 2 hours to do but they let me do it because they know I love to fix and feel the pride of doing it myself. Nothing beats the feeling of shooting something that you fixed yourself. That's why I have been reloading and casting and powder coating my own bullets. I'm too old to take gunsmithing classes but I still can fix most of the projects that I get. If it is beyond what I'm comfortable doing I take it to a gunsmith that can do it. I never want to do anything that would hurt me. Gunsmiths are here for a reason. Please take your projects to a good gunsmith and your firearm will last for a very long time. Thanks for the great video.
I was always told, never part between centres. I'm not saying I never do it, just that I was not to. You brought back a memory. I used to work with a guy who could pretty much make a French horn out of a sheet of brass. One day I dropped the parting tool and my partner freeks out. I ask what's the problem. He says he needs it to finish a valve he's making. I tell him not to worry, I'll grind a new one. He looks at me puzzled and asks if I can really make one. I point and say, well I made that one didn't I. The taught this guy how to make a French horn from scratch, but not how to grind bits. I thought that very odd. Guess I was very lucky because in my early 20s I worked with a great old gentleman who taught me how to grind bits, sharpen drill bits among other things. So much to learn and such little time.
When I was learning how to fix airplanes, one of the first things we had to make was a punch from a bolt to remove the garlock seal from a mechanical tachometer drive. We also had to retemper a cut down chisel. I can't imagine not learning how to make the tools you need!
Mark, you are way too modest. You are most definitely not an average machinist. What you did to restore that gun was remarkable. Thank you for sharing.
You may say you're "average" in some areas, but you are way above average in your talents. Another great job and I really enjoy your in- depth explanation of all the processes. People like you, Sir, who demonstrate their excellence in their skills don't have to do anything but exhibit how well they do any job. All such folks in your category are usually modest about themselves.
This makes me so comfortable to hear you say you are an average everything. Im wanting to start gunsmithing and Im kinda scared of failing but at the same time im a disabled vet with nothing but time on my hands.
Just subscribed, as a uk resident and a non gun owner I just want to say, even if you don’t like guns The comprehensive detail on woodworking restoration and mechanical restoration is incredible. Lots to learn, thank you!
@Mark, you mentioned something at the ending that rang true. You felt safer on a properly controlled firing range than on the drive to it. And that was a feeling you hadn't felt since being on the sub. Military people are accustomed to working with and trusting others in something that an old friend of mine called vertical competency. That is one sense of pride and professionalism that too few people get to feel.
If you think about it, in 58 years we went from the first man in a working airplane, to a man flying in space... It's amazing how fast technology moves when their are people driving it that have passion. It tends to grow so rapidly, then stagnate, then grow again.
I'm just some Dutch guy who doesn't own any guns because I consider it too much of a hassle Vs. what I can do with them here... But the fascination for their history and mechanics is there, and you, sir, are doing some marvelous stuff I wish I could. It's wonderful to watch the work you do come to life, and see something that mangled be restored.
Little tip. Don't touch the work with your tungsten. It damages the tips and gives you an unstable arc. You can get much smoother results by swiping your filler rod across quickly. It will bridge the gap between the tungsten and the weldament. It makes much extremely brief contact and gives you a better result. Little practice and you'll be golden. It makes a huge difference, especially on larger welds.
And it will Light you up, in the process! It did me every time! Now I do Mig, Stick AC & dc, Oxy/Actlyn, welding, and Plasma cutting. Dern TIG.! I have NEVER tigged and not got the heck shocked out of myself. Now, I'm dang near 70 and still have the memory of a TIG bite! It Hertz about like 3 phase does! 😜
Great exhibition of mechanical resurrection! That little quote at the end... "I haven't felt like I've been around 100% competent people since I was on that submarine." Man, I gotta tell ya, that quote hit home.
Mr Novak's comment about the feeling of comfortable security on a shooting range as compared to driving on the open road is SO TRUE. I KNOW that feeling. And certain people who think they have a right (they are wrong) to constrain my preferred sporting activities again and again AND AGAIN and take that feeling away from me because these activities are (allegedly) DANGEROUS can take a long walk off the end of a short pier. I saw this restoration the first time it was put up. Loved it then, loved it again.
We had an Old Mechanical Arcade hunting game. Safari Hunter. The Gun Was A Remington Bolt action 22lr...it was All welded up. But It Was A Real Gun. Serial Numbers Makers Mark's etc... I Hate "REAL Working" Wall Hanger's..Just Boggles My Mind Why They Would Use a REAL gun Instead of a Replica
All I have to say is men like you and Mark Serbu are what separate the novices from the masters. Doing the work putting back together what was rendered as neutered, inoperable... destroyed. Pure skill and attention to detail that you make seem effortless. Thank you for bringing this rare endangered masterpiece back to life she deserved it.
That would have been awesome. I was fortunate that they taught us to do drawings (iso and plans) in shop, and it's in use now as I am a plumber. Some real metal shop like that would have been invaluable later on in life. Wish kids these days still all had shop. Many don't.
@@CaptShocker yeah even though my first 2 years. I had a bone head for an instructor. It was his last two years before retirement. And he just didn't care about the students anymore. My second two years of metal shop I had a instructor that was very passionate about passing on his knowledge. kids nowadays don't even have shot glass like that it's real sad. I'm an equipment operator now. And we we have laborers that when they started they didn't even know how to use a shovel.
I was reading a popular mechanics from the 50s or 60s and there was an ad for MP-18s that were deactivated by welding, im guessing this one was from one of those sales.
Average? You can think in 3d. Many people cant comprehend such thinking. And you are persistent and thorough. All of your attributes combined make you above average. Dont puff your self up like an nfl or nba clown, be you be cool be humble and strive always for perfection. And never sell yourself short
I couldn't have said it any better! The fellow is AMAZING. I've turned a lot of shavings, in my life! I trained since I was 8 years old, in my Dad's machine shop and worked up to a Tool & Die maker and Tool Designer, working in a Job-Shop setting, also repairing farm equipment and lengthening/shortening drive shafts and the like, till the bottom dropped out in the 70's and I changed professions to Electrician. I still did metal work, more as a hobby, but watching stuff like this still makes my liver quiver! 😀.This fellow know what he's doing! He's got my respect! Bill of Tn. 🇺🇸
Lmao 🤣 hell yeah always knew Peter was republican, there’s no way a libtard or democomunazi would know how to do any of that let alone not call every rifle a AK or AR
Thank you Mark for all the content you have posted, I have learned a great deal just from watching your videos, there is nothing average about your skills sir. Especially if you consider all that you have accomplished in your videos. I'm 61 years old and only hope to be able to replicate in some reasonable fashion on all I have learned from your videos. I'm retiring soon and have amassed a collection of rusted and busted junk out of garage sales and basements and am planning on putting to the test what I have learned, with hopes of making some shooters but moreover with making some decent looking wall hangers in my scopes. I hope this finds you well as you have inspired not only myself but I'm sure a great many of us.
I knew this older woman whose grandfather served in WW2. She was very wealthy and during one night at her house, she showed me a gun that looked like this. I'm not sure if it was the same kind of gun, but she told me her grandfather brought it back from the war. She also told me that it's illegal to own, since it's a fully automatic machine gun. I got to hold it, and I vividly remember the weight and look of the barrel, it looks identical to the one in this video. Very cool gun, indeed.
I saw your work the first time you made a video on it, and watching this again still gives me the willies. I've done a few similar pucker jobs, but never on anything this valuable. Keeping the boring bar loose in the Jacobs chuck was a clever idea.
Outstanding! edge of the seat industrial action I could have sat through that in real time. that you took on a job like this takes a lot of workshop courage, i hope you post the rest of the restoration. You performed historical CPR to the MP18. Thank you.
Love a vuy who knows what an honor it is to work on such an iconic piece of firearms history....and the fact I think the russians had an edict stating that a firearm in developement should have no more parts than its maker has fingers and toes.🥴👍
12:15 milling cutter used as a drill bit has no side loads anyway, it's just a flat bottom drill which have no issues in drill chucks(obvs). If a 30mm+ spade bit for wood can go in a drill chuck, a 12mm end mill is no dramas. Only issue is using it to mill sideways, then it has a habit of coming loose(from what I see, anyway)
Man, you need to stop: "below average." You are well above average in all of those fields. You might do some things unconventionally, but that shows just how brilliant you are as a gunsmith. You know all the processes and you seem to make them work flawlessly. Please keep up the great work!
...a $100K machining master class free on TH-cam...thank you Mark!!! I worked as the 'production control' rep for a while in the sheet metal/machine shop at Sikorsky Aircraft WPB, FL, facility and was fascinated at the skill of the machinists who could take a chunk of T6 or T7 aluminum and make it into a working part with all its complex angles & cuts...wish I'd become a machinist insteadda getting two (practically useless) degrees...
Funny that most folks don't realize that many guns want to be full auto. We have to use hammer disconnects etc to make them stop shooting more than one shot per trigger pull.
From a machinists standpoint. Regardless of what others may think or say, there really is no right or wrong if it works. Some of the most crude set ups have produced the most satisfactory returns.
I guess that trashing your skills is your right. After all, if anyone should be allowed to insult you, it's you; but you, Sir, are what we English describe as 'bloody good' at what you do. Keep on being bloody good at it. 👍
I don't even have a pony in the show, and I was on the edge of my seat the whole episode. Nice work! If I was the original owner I'd keep it as a bull barrel and take it prairie dog hunting.
Regarding "average"... This awsome episode, had me sweating MORE than the 'average' suspense / action movie!!. So many thanks & Blessings to Master Mark Novak for your priceless generosity, sharing your wealth of ingenuity, vast experience + creativity!!. 🤗🇺🇲🙏🙏🙏
A man of many talents, master of all. You sir are an inspiration to all of us up and coming gunsmiths and hobbyists. I pray that I can become half as talented as you are. Keep the videos coming, cant wait for the next one.
who the ufck welds up a literal unobtainium of a historical piece like an mp18 MONSTERS!!!!! . theres a very special place in hell reserved for those type of people . you are doing God's work here my good man
That might well have been welded up here in Britain where full auto weapons have ALWAYS been banned so welding them up was a way of legally owning a non firing weapon. Back in the 80's the government made rules as to how weapons were deactivated in such a way as to make then unrecoverable as working weapons, things like slots right through the barrel and receiver under the woodwork etc.
It's a real pleasure to watch your video. There are better machinists, welders and gunsmiths! but I highly doubt that they would be able to do what you did. You explained all the operations in great detail, you can see exactly how much you love what you do. Respect.
Below average, MY ARSE! Just watching your prowess on the lathe was spectacular. I too am going to mix hydraulics, beer and ribs and savor this whole ANVIL. Bravo Zulu, my friend!
There is nothing average about you, you are a genius when it comes to gunsmiths. The knowledge you possess blows me away. Love your channel and all the amazing ideas you are willing to share with your viewing audience.
Average………no not even close. If I had a fraction of your knowledge I’d consider myself something. This video has been a total joy to see a wrong righted. I am also thrilled that you take the young up & coming gunsmiths and pour into them. Thank you Mark! I am truly in awe of your talents.
Don't sell yourself short, I never got to machinist but I was an apprentice for a few years, training with some of the best, even tool makers and you appear to be very capable to me. Anyone wanting to learn should be privileged to train along side you, I would! God Bless you and yours!😇👏
Sad to see it in such a state. It's a shame you couldn't rescue more of the original pieces but damn I'm surprised you rescued as much as you did. Stellar work, sir. Made my day.
I have to confess that when you pulled that back plate, spring and bolt group the first thing that popped into my head was how much the set up reminded me of a MK-19 Grenade Launcher and an M-9 Grease Gun.
I'm was a Seabee in the Navy 1967-1971. The Seabee moto is "Can Do".You sir "Can Do" and should have been a Seabee. Thank you for sharing the resurrection of a piece of history.
Mark, I surmise that you are a man of many accomplishments but what you have so humbly achieved here is truly wonderful. My hat is off to you. (P.S. The hammer of my MP44 has this teensy crack in it…)
Amazing firearm.. Glad to see you were able to undo what some @$$hole did to disable it. I can not believe someone would take such a rare piece of equipment and try to ruin it ever running again. You really do save history. One gun at a time.
Call yourself "average", Mate, you're a legend!
I've been a machinist for over 30 years. My skills transferred over the ages from working on manual equipment to CNC many years ago.
I also developed a passion for the engineering of firearms in my youth. This video exemplifies not only the respect for historical firearm design and preservation, but more importantly, the craft of the machinist. Much kudos to you for reminding all of us who have ever put tool to metal what the craft can create.
Until a person has TRIED a true machinist work, I don’t think they appreciate what goes into it
I sure didn’t. I scoffed at a guy who wanted $50 to press bearings in a Suzuki spindle. I went home, messed up 2 sets of bearings, then payed him to do
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That is some of the worst Machine work I have ever seen sorry but true.
@@john2359 theres always one in every group.......guess that's you! Lol
I'm impressed. That thing was an absolute mess, they had worked very hard to see that it would never shoot again and you sure proved them wrong.
I know someone who has a Bergmann in his collection. Some previous owner de-mil'd it by taking a cutting torch and doing a real bad number to the bolt and receiver. It's enough to make you cry, but it was either that or have the whole thing smelted.
The most dangerous peter griffin
Heheheheheh!!!
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@@AntiFakeJewsRev2-9-0Zach9-6 based channel name?
Nice
As a guy setting up a gunsmithing shop currently getting tooling and FFL and licensing I would love to pay a visit to Marks shop. I can’t get enough of this mans work. A true artist of the trade.
where are you located
Mark Novak I am located in north east Louisiana
Watching Mark work is akin to watching Da Vinci paint, absolute fine art.
I know I was watching DaVinci paint last week it was awesome
You would definitely appreciate MarineGunBuilder's content.
DaVinci didn't smoke cigars though.
Mark, Ian, and Othias are the three best things to ever happen to TH-cam. I havent watched regular TV in years
Honorable mentions for Mark Felton, Drachinifel, and Indy Neidell too
What's TV?
Mark, if you were the standard for "an average guy" then most of us would fall somewhere between cavemen and crash test dummies.
Well said! I couldn't have put that better myself Daniel
You might be an average machinist...You might be an average wood worker, but you are an outstanding gunsmith. Great video and channel.
That is so cool. I'm a collector and I love that firearm. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend time at the gunsmiths at the gun shop/range that I worked at. I got to do the final firing of the firearms that our gunsmiths fixed and sent a target and brass with the firearms to the customers. I was able to fix a Browning A5 that my dad bought for $2.50 for at a garage sale because they thought 5he barrel was bad and it didn't fire. It turned out that the bolt block was bad and the gunsmiths taught me how to machine the bolt block to get the action to work. I spent about 8 and a half hours to fix it. It would have taken a real gunsmith about a 2 hours to do but they let me do it because they know I love to fix and feel the pride of doing it myself. Nothing beats the feeling of shooting something that you fixed yourself. That's why I have been reloading and casting and powder coating my own bullets. I'm too old to take gunsmithing classes but I still can fix most of the projects that I get. If it is beyond what I'm comfortable doing I take it to a gunsmith that can do it. I never want to do anything that would hurt me. Gunsmiths are here for a reason. Please take your projects to a good gunsmith and your firearm will last for a very long time. Thanks for the great video.
That comment literally brought a tear to my eye!!! We NEED more folks like you, in this world! Bill, from Tn. 🇺🇸
I was always told, never part between centres. I'm not saying I never do it, just that I was not to.
You brought back a memory.
I used to work with a guy who could pretty much make a French horn out of a sheet of brass.
One day I dropped the parting tool and my partner freeks out.
I ask what's the problem.
He says he needs it to finish a valve he's making.
I tell him not to worry, I'll grind a new one.
He looks at me puzzled and asks if I can really make one.
I point and say, well I made that one didn't I.
The taught this guy how to make a French horn from scratch, but not how to grind bits. I thought that very odd.
Guess I was very lucky because in my early 20s I worked with a great old gentleman who taught me how to grind bits, sharpen drill bits among other things.
So much to learn and such little time.
When I was learning how to fix airplanes, one of the first things we had to make was a punch from a bolt to remove the garlock seal from a mechanical tachometer drive. We also had to retemper a cut down chisel.
I can't imagine not learning how to make the tools you need!
"average machinist"
that's some serious modesty my dude, this was a masterful restoration on all counts.
Pat yourself on the back! This isn't something anyone average can do. That took a commitment and skill set that is not "average"!
"A hydraulic lunch with some ribs to wash the beer down"... that's hilarious.
Mark, you are way too modest. You are most definitely not an average machinist. What you did to restore that gun was remarkable. Thank you for sharing.
Seriously.
I don't think there's more than 10 gunsmiths in the country that would be able to do that repair without fracking it up.
You may say you're "average" in some areas, but you are way above average in your talents. Another great job and I really enjoy your in- depth explanation of all the processes. People like you, Sir, who demonstrate their excellence in their skills don't have to do anything but exhibit how well they do any job. All such folks in your category are usually modest about themselves.
That's awkward moment when some one ruined perfection to make a movie prop. And then. .. Mark saved it..👌
This makes me so comfortable to hear you say you are an average everything. Im wanting to start gunsmithing and Im kinda scared of failing but at the same time im a disabled vet with nothing but time on my hands.
Do it bro, look up lutys book expedient firearms. Semper fi
@@noeeon9910 got my ffl in the mail in November (: just been tooling up
Never fear bro, you go for it full tilt boogie.
I have 30+ years of working on military firearms. Dude, I am in awe by what you can do!
We had fun also....that helps, yes?
Just subscribed, as a uk resident and a non gun owner I just want to say, even if you don’t like guns
The comprehensive detail on woodworking restoration and mechanical restoration is incredible. Lots to learn, thank you!
@Mark, you mentioned something at the ending that rang true. You felt safer on a properly controlled firing range than on the drive to it. And that was a feeling you hadn't felt since being on the sub. Military people are accustomed to working with and trusting others in something that an old friend of mine called vertical competency. That is one sense of pride and professionalism that too few people get to feel.
You remind me of my father, a machinist, and you are not average. Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed this
Full auto next to a muzzle loader. A picture of the arc of innovation and really not far a part in time.
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If you think about it, in 58 years we went from the first man in a working airplane, to a man flying in space...
It's amazing how fast technology moves when their are people driving it that have passion. It tends to grow so rapidly, then stagnate, then grow again.
Something tells me, that I wasn't the only one smiling the entire time while watching this one... THIS WAS COOL!!!!!
Thanks. Spread the word please.
My Grandfather was a tool and Die man also. He is up in heaven smiling down on ur Great Vid! Good stuff. Im now a sub. 👍👍
+1
This is clear artistry. Much of that barrel blank ends up in the chip tray. Sir your insights tie the whole package together. God bless you.
"Oh yeah, no ones ever gonna be able to shoot that again" - Welder who didn't know Mark would save the day.
Man Peter griffin got a MP18
And Stan Smith from American Dad has a Sten Mk5. It was in his weapon closet in one episode.
It is a pleasure to see a true craftsman bring back such a beautiful piece of history. Good job .
for someone that's meant to be average you did some great work
I'm just some Dutch guy who doesn't own any guns because I consider it too much of a hassle Vs. what I can do with them here... But the fascination for their history and mechanics is there, and you, sir, are doing some marvelous stuff I wish I could.
It's wonderful to watch the work you do come to life, and see something that mangled be restored.
Little tip. Don't touch the work with your tungsten. It damages the tips and gives you an unstable arc. You can get much smoother results by swiping your filler rod across quickly. It will bridge the gap between the tungsten and the weldament. It makes much extremely brief contact and gives you a better result. Little practice and you'll be golden. It makes a huge difference, especially on larger welds.
And it will Light you up, in the process! It did me every time! Now I do Mig, Stick AC & dc, Oxy/Actlyn, welding, and Plasma cutting. Dern TIG.! I have NEVER tigged and not got the heck shocked out of myself. Now, I'm dang near 70 and still have the memory of a TIG bite! It Hertz about like 3 phase does! 😜
Great exhibition of mechanical resurrection! That little quote at the end... "I haven't felt like I've been around 100% competent people since I was on that submarine." Man, I gotta tell ya, that quote hit home.
Mr Novak's comment about the feeling of comfortable security on a shooting range as compared to driving on the open road is SO TRUE. I KNOW that feeling. And certain people who think they have a right (they are wrong) to constrain my preferred sporting activities again and again AND AGAIN and take that feeling away from me because these activities are (allegedly) DANGEROUS can take a long walk off the end of a short pier.
I saw this restoration the first time it was put up. Loved it then, loved it again.
Such a shame they destroy these great guns because it’s full auto or to import. thank you mark
Its history. It should be against the law.
We had an Old Mechanical Arcade hunting game. Safari Hunter. The Gun Was A Remington Bolt action 22lr...it was All welded up. But It Was A Real Gun. Serial Numbers Makers Mark's etc... I Hate "REAL Working" Wall Hanger's..Just Boggles My Mind Why They Would Use a REAL gun Instead of a Replica
Only way to import them into the US is through donations to a federal museum.
Great job, I have to admit that I found myself literally hold my breath through some of your work... Thank you for putting this video up.
All I have to say is men like you and Mark Serbu are what separate the novices from the masters. Doing the work putting back together what was rendered as neutered, inoperable... destroyed. Pure skill and attention to detail that you make seem effortless. Thank you for bringing this rare endangered masterpiece back to life she deserved it.
I sure wish I had you for shop class in highschool. I might have learned something.
That would have been awesome.
I was fortunate that they taught us to do drawings (iso and plans) in shop, and it's in use now as I am a plumber. Some real metal shop like that would have been invaluable later on in life.
Wish kids these days still all had shop. Many don't.
@@CaptShocker yeah even though my first 2 years. I had a bone head for an instructor. It was his last two years before retirement. And he just didn't care about the students anymore. My second two years of metal shop I had a instructor that was very passionate about passing on his knowledge. kids nowadays don't even have shot glass like that it's real sad. I'm an equipment operator now. And we we have laborers that when they started they didn't even know how to use a shovel.
I wish I actually had shop class.
Absolutely!!
I was reading a popular mechanics from the 50s or 60s and there was an ad for MP-18s that were deactivated by welding, im guessing this one was from one of those sales.
what issue if i may ask? interested to see this add.
Average? You can think in 3d. Many people cant comprehend such thinking. And you are persistent and thorough. All of your attributes combined make you above average. Dont puff your self up like an nfl or nba clown, be you be cool be humble and strive always for perfection. And never sell yourself short
I couldn't have said it any better! The fellow is AMAZING. I've turned a lot of shavings, in my life! I trained since I was 8 years old, in my Dad's machine shop and worked up to a Tool & Die maker and Tool Designer, working in a Job-Shop setting, also repairing farm equipment and lengthening/shortening drive shafts and the like, till the bottom dropped out in the 70's and I changed professions to Electrician. I still did metal work, more as a hobby, but watching stuff like this still makes my liver quiver! 😀.This fellow know what he's doing! He's got my respect! Bill of Tn. 🇺🇸
I watched this 3 times last time it was uploaded. I gladly watched it again 2 more. Thanks Mark and Bruno.
He is like a gun savvy Peter Griffin
😂🤣😂
Awesome job of fixing other people's mistakes!
Best comment ever 🤣
Lmao 🤣 hell yeah always knew Peter was republican, there’s no way a libtard or democomunazi would know how to do any of that let alone not call every rifle a AK or AR
Haaannnnnn
Average isn't a word is use to describe anything I've learned about you so far. 👍
Absolutely agree - there is nothing average about the skill and knowledge that Mark puts into his work. I wish to hell I was that average.
You are not just a machinist you are a metal magician so very very talented. Great job protecting our antiques!!!
Thank you Mark for all the content you have posted, I have learned a great deal just from watching your videos, there is nothing average about your skills sir.
Especially if you consider all that you have accomplished in your videos.
I'm 61 years old and only hope to be able to replicate in some reasonable fashion on all I have learned from your videos. I'm retiring soon and have amassed a collection of rusted and busted junk out of garage sales and basements and am planning on putting to the test what I have learned, with hopes of making some shooters but moreover with making some decent looking wall hangers in my scopes.
I hope this finds you well as you have inspired not only myself but I'm sure a great many of us.
I knew this older woman whose grandfather served in WW2. She was very wealthy and during one night at her house, she showed me a gun that looked like this. I'm not sure if it was the same kind of gun, but she told me her grandfather brought it back from the war. She also told me that it's illegal to own, since it's a fully automatic machine gun. I got to hold it, and I vividly remember the weight and look of the barrel, it looks identical to the one in this video. Very cool gun, indeed.
That might have been an MP 41, which was used by rear-line units in WW2 and it kind of resembles MP 18s, which would've been rare even in the 1940's.
Id go find that old lady! Lol
An average machinist doesn't have the task management skills and ingenuity that you have. Don't sell yourself short.
I think he was kidding
Anything can be accomplished if one uses his or her brains and adds a little bit of precious commodity we all call time
I saw your work the first time you made a video on it, and watching this again still gives me the willies. I've done a few similar pucker jobs, but never on anything this valuable. Keeping the boring bar loose in the Jacobs chuck was a clever idea.
Outstanding! edge of the seat industrial action I could have sat through that in real time. that you took on a job like this takes a lot of workshop courage, i hope you post the rest of the restoration. You performed historical CPR to the MP18. Thank you.
Mark has a great craftsmanship and real humor. That is a great mix 👍🏻
Love a vuy who knows what an honor it is to work on such an iconic piece of firearms history....and the fact I think the russians had an edict stating that a firearm in developement should have no more parts than its maker has fingers and toes.🥴👍
12:15 milling cutter used as a drill bit has no side loads anyway, it's just a flat bottom drill which have no issues in drill chucks(obvs). If a 30mm+ spade bit for wood can go in a drill chuck, a 12mm end mill is no dramas. Only issue is using it to mill sideways, then it has a habit of coming loose(from what I see, anyway)
It's like if "puff the magic dragon" had a TH-cam channel. They tell me your not real , yet here u are ! Cheers mate
Legend
What a craftsman! My dad was a gunsmith and I spent hours in his shop watching him. Thank you for allowing us do do the same.
I love it! Restoring this from a welded hunk of metal to a working firearm is IMHO, epic!
There was nothing "average" in this video my friend, only skill and craftsmanship; outstanding work.
Man, you need to stop: "below average." You are well above average in all of those fields. You might do some things unconventionally, but that shows just how brilliant you are as a gunsmith. You know all the processes and you seem to make them work flawlessly. Please keep up the great work!
...a $100K machining master class free on TH-cam...thank you Mark!!! I worked as the 'production control' rep for a while in the sheet metal/machine shop at Sikorsky Aircraft WPB, FL, facility and was fascinated at the skill of the machinists who could take a chunk of T6 or T7 aluminum and make it into a working part with all its complex angles & cuts...wish I'd become a machinist insteadda getting two (practically useless) degrees...
"Hydraulic lunch. Beer to wash the ribs down."
I haven't had a TH-cam video this long keep my full attention, all the way through, for a very long time. Excellent!
Funny that most folks don't realize that many guns want to be full auto. We have to use hammer disconnects etc to make them stop shooting more than one shot per trigger pull.
So you are saying that most guns want to Rock and Roll!
Mark have I mentioned in the past, that with twenty years of gunsmithing under my belt. you are still my hero! I love the work you do.
You are a freaking wizard mr Novak! Awesome work.
From a machinists standpoint. Regardless of what others may think or say, there really is no right or wrong if it works. Some of the most crude set ups have produced the most satisfactory returns.
I guess that trashing your skills is your right. After all, if anyone should be allowed to insult you, it's you; but you, Sir, are what we English describe as 'bloody good' at what you do.
Keep on being bloody good at it. 👍
Precision surgery for precious firearms who became victims of domestic abuse.
Thank you for saving this piece of history! You do phenomenal work 👌🏻
I don't even have a pony in the show, and I was on the edge of my seat the whole episode. Nice work! If I was the original owner I'd keep it as a bull barrel and take it prairie dog hunting.
Glad TH-cam recommended this video to me.. finally something worth while!
You know your stuff so I'll definitely be tuning in often.
So glad to see someone repair something so rare ill probably only get to see these in games such a beautiful piece of history thanks for sharing
Regarding "average"... This awsome episode, had me sweating MORE than the 'average' suspense / action movie!!.
So many thanks & Blessings to Master Mark Novak for your priceless generosity, sharing your wealth of ingenuity, vast experience + creativity!!.
🤗🇺🇲🙏🙏🙏
Don't forget Mark's priceless very dry humour!
A man of many talents, master of all. You sir are an inspiration to all of us up and coming gunsmiths and hobbyists. I pray that I can become half as talented as you are. Keep the videos coming, cant wait for the next one.
who the ufck welds up a literal unobtainium of a historical piece like an mp18 MONSTERS!!!!! . theres a very special place in hell reserved for those type of people . you are doing God's work here my good man
back when it was brought to the US, people didn't care about it as much as we do now.
besides, back then.. we had way more of these than we do now
It may have been done 75 years ago
@@1970bosshemi unlikely
most gun laws and gun hatred amongst the people are a recent thing
That might well have been welded up here in Britain where full auto weapons have ALWAYS been banned so welding them up was a way of legally owning a non firing weapon. Back in the 80's the government made rules as to how weapons were deactivated in such a way as to make then unrecoverable as working weapons, things like slots right through the barrel and receiver under the woodwork etc.
man you are not just average at anything you do that was an awesome build!
This is one of my favorite videos and I think it's the frist one I ever watched
It's a real pleasure to watch your video. There are better machinists, welders and gunsmiths! but I highly doubt that they would be able to do what you did. You explained all the operations in great detail, you can see exactly how much you love what you do. Respect.
"There are better machinists, welders and gunsmiths!" Let me guess, YOU are one of them. Spare us, Mr Narcissist.
@@rogerdevero8726 Re-watch 28:33 and then perhaps reconsider your comment.
Below average, MY ARSE! Just watching your prowess on the lathe was spectacular. I too am going to mix hydraulics, beer and ribs and savor this whole ANVIL. Bravo Zulu, my friend!
Mark you are a true craftsman you gun smithing skills are off the chart watching what you did has peaked my interest in more of your videos great job
me looking at that weld:THAT'S A LOTTA DAMAGE
Don't sell yourself short, that was above average work and done all freehand. Great Job.
seems TH-cam is recommending this to a lot of people glad it is too
Lots of interest in firearms right now, wonder why?
There is nothing average about you, you are a genius when it comes to gunsmiths. The knowledge you possess blows me away. Love your channel and all the amazing ideas you are willing to share with your viewing audience.
Average………no not even close. If I had a fraction of your knowledge I’d consider myself something. This video has been a total joy to see a wrong righted. I am also thrilled that you take the young up & coming gunsmiths and pour into them. Thank you Mark! I am truly in awe of your talents.
Don't sell yourself short, I never got to machinist but I was an apprentice for a few years, training with some of the best, even tool makers and you appear to be very capable to me. Anyone wanting to learn should be privileged to train along side you, I would! God Bless you and yours!😇👏
If it were a STEN, this would have been a 5-minute video.
Same amount of labor for the STEN. That's why i don't do them
Peter Griffon has never been more intimidating
Sad to see it in such a state. It's a shame you couldn't rescue more of the original pieces but damn I'm surprised you rescued as much as you did.
Stellar work, sir. Made my day.
I have to confess that when you pulled that back plate, spring and bolt group the first thing that popped into my head was how much the set up reminded me of a MK-19 Grenade Launcher and an M-9 Grease Gun.
the grease gun /sten is a simplified version of a mp18
I'm was a Seabee in the Navy 1967-1971. The Seabee moto is "Can Do".You sir "Can Do" and should have been a Seabee. Thank you for sharing the resurrection of a piece of history.
Mark, I surmise that you are a man of many accomplishments but what you have so humbly achieved here is truly wonderful. My hat is off to you.
(P.S. The hammer of my MP44 has this teensy crack in it…)
You have a legitimate mp44 ?
really enjoy watching the work you do to bring life back to these firearms.
The mark of a good machinist is being able to fix other people's f ups (or weld ups ) as the case may be !
Wow amazing! Showed up in my recommended so glad I watched. You are a wordsmithing gunsmithing narrator you definitely break it all down.
There is nothing "Average" About the job you just did on this gun!!!
Amazing firearm.. Glad to see you were able to undo what some @$$hole did to disable it. I can not believe someone would take such a rare piece of equipment and try to ruin it ever running again. You really do save history. One gun at a time.
Very cool and thank you for saving the MP18. BTW, far above average work, you've done an excellent job!
Mark, I'm telling you that what I have observed over the years is you are way above average. Keep up the excellent work. GOD bless.
You ARE the carbon based lifeform.
Well done! I bet that was a thrill to shoot. Thanks for sharing.
There's people in this world who have the "It" factor in their trade. You, sir, have "It"