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Old 06-07-2019, 03:53 PM
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THIS IS NOT A REAL MACHINE GUN!!! Thirty somethin' years ago mt dad bought this fake Japanese Thompson at a flea market for fifteen buck. When he showed it to me I said, "You know I must have this!". So he got his $15 back. He knew Sgt. Saunders on "Combat" was my hero in the 60s. Well, ten years later I found a butt stock for it at another flea market for five bucks. I instantly recognized it. But it had no hardware. My question. Where do I find the meal parts for the stock? The 1911 is also a Japanese "toy" a friend gave me about ten years ago. Both "guns" have the weight of the real thing and do everything but shoot.




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Odds of finding mounting hardware are probably pretty slim

I would search the Internet for photos/exploded views of the Japanese copy and try to fabricate something myself
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Try Sarco, they are having a sale on Thompson parts, according to an Email they just sent me.
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What are the markings on the Japanese fake Thompson? Were it me, I’d try to contact the manufacturer, if it still exists, and ask if parts are available.

The Japanese make very realistic replica airsoft (big plastic bb) guns that are useful for training purposes in addition to being fun with which to mess around.
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What kind of hardware does it take?
I would think that the buttstock on these would be attached to the underside of the back end of the receiver with a couple of screws/bolts that were inserted up through the bottom edge of the stock and into threaded holes in the receiver.
Like parts 9 & 10 in this diagram

If so then you should be able to find a couple of metric machine screw the right size at Ace Hardware.

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When I was attaching sling swivels to plastic stocked 22's neither wood or machine screws would grip the plastic so I mixed up 2 part clear epoxy and glued the threads right to the stock. 30 years later (and a lot of ground hog hunts) The sling studs still hold a forearm wrapped "Hasty" sling or a bipod. So it works. The bottom side of your "Thompson" doesn't look like factory stock and hardware will mount in normal fashion anyway. So fit it up, drill and tap if possible, tape it off and epoxy away!

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GI parts may not fit, these Japanese repop guns are usually a bit out of those specs.
Hudson Model Co and MSC were the two main makers/importers of these in the 80's.

Here's a few pics of one of the blank firing TSMg Japanese made (MSC made I think). They used to call these 'plug fire' blank guns.
This will fire semi auto or F/A controlled fire.
20rd magazine and there's a drum mag around here somewhere for it too.
Heavy thing.
I understand that some enterprising types are making blank firing repros now in steel and from scratch pretty much. Using a unique size blank cartridge of some sort just for their blank guns, they say they are BATF signed off as a non-gun. Not cheap at several thousand $$ a copy if you want a TSMg or an MG42.

Anyway,,,

The hardware on the stock is a somewhat heavy piece with a rail cut into the inner portion of each side. That slides onto the recv'r from the rear.
There's a locking bar that is spring loaded-that snaps upward and into the slot in the underside of the recv'r to hold the stock in position. The same small coil spring loads the TD button and by pressing and holding it down, it disengages the locking bar and allows the stock to be pulled off the recv'r to the rear.

On this particular repro the stock harware was a very loose fit on the recv'r rails. An easy fix was to glas bed the stock hardware to the recv'r.
That's the brown stuff in the pic on the inside of the rails.
Release compound was used on the rec'vr to it was & is removeable. But still a very tight fit.

That hardware is held to the stock by two screws coming in from the bottom of the grip area.
Other than that assembly you'll need the rear sling swivel and screws and the butt plate and screws,,,,and a stock.

Here's a few pics of the blank fire Repro.





















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Thanks, everyone. now to fine that butt stock somewhere in my garage. While the Tommy gun is metal and heavy, I was wrong about the pistol which is plastic. But a very solid toy. A friend sold me a bunch of .380 ammo an uncle had and the in the pistol because his wife wanted it out of the house. But I paid him a little extra. It’s great for making 1911 holsters as I don’t own a real one.
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Excellent! Their Thompson’s are reasonably priced. I wish mine had a pistol grip foreend but I wouldn’t change it.
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I have the pistol grip fore-end that came off the blank firing Thompson I took the pics of.
The straight grip forend on it now is a GI replacement that I fitted to it for the customer that never came back for the gun.
That's how I became the proud owner.

Simple single screw attachment thru the bottom of the grip IIRC, I think it was a 6mm metric screw.
I got a replacement at HomeDepot to use on the GI stock.
Might have the orig for the pistol grip stock still with it.

If I can find it, you can have it. It most probably fits your gun, maybe a bit of fitting, maybe some epoxy bedding to tighten the inletting.

Then you can go stylin'
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