"If you squib a machine gun, that's a problem" Probably the most understated sentence I have ever heard.

Mark, if you ever think you're boring us with details, it's only because you know the details left, right, center, yesterday, and tomorrow. We're here to see a master in his element, the details may go over our heads sometimes but we can always re-watch and catch them all and be amazed.

RSC17 - Aah Yesss. Thank you Sir, for showing the world, what we can't even see in France. Pleasure shared.

My favorite Mark Novak-ism is “and the 24 hour [insert gun here] parts store isn’t open”

6:27 As a modern designer (I don't even feel qualified to call myself a "design engineer") who does all his work in CAD, that drawing is beautiful, Mark! And yes, "smooth" CAN be a radius callout in certain circumstances, like this one. ASME and ISO might disagree but they didn't have to make this thing.

I've seen all the Anvils, but I still greatly enjoyed watching this again!

My goodness Mr Novak, your ability to manipulate the keys on the pianoforte maybe exceed your abilities as an armourer/gunsmith. My father was a WOII Quartermaster sergeant in WWII and an artificer officer, stationed in Iraq 1942 - 1944 ergo, I understand your uncompromising methods. Superb!

Love the Anvil reposts. Looking forward to more.

Mr Novak, you demonstrate perfectly how important it is to know both the engineering AND the history behind the engineering. Better still, you are gifted at passing on that background knowledge in a way that anyone can understand. That is the hallmark of true expertise. Many Thanks from the UK. Happy New Year 2021.

A really good video. Having worked with semi-auto rifles that were converted to a different cartridge/caliber, I know how frustrating it can get to "Tweak" the gas system to function. I am always amazed when I pull older guns apart and look at the machining done on them with old machinery.

Big props to whoever edits these. And I look forward to some sort of re-upload of the back catalog. I've made a playlist just for _Anvil_ episodes. Better than anything on the teevee. :-)

Mark, I am a recent subscriber to your channel as I find your presentation fascinating. You have that rare ability to easily explain what you are doing and why and you must either have a massive library relating to old weapons or an encyclopaedic memory. Either way, thank you for taking the time to make these videos, and whomever chose the music for them, kudos to them as well.

Mark, after listening to your narrative about the mechanics of that rifle, I'm reminded of a saying that George Patton claims to have coined, "Pressure makes diamonds". During the development of that rifle, the French Army was worn out and demoralized., Paris was on the brink of being overrun by the Germans and the US was wishy washy about joining the war. I strongly feel there was an all out effort on the part of the French to develop a "game changing" weapon to win. Thus the devoted effort to quickly develop a repeating full size battle rifle, as well as other implements of war. Really enjoy these videos, thanks for posting them, I'm familiar enough with the work to know the effort it takes to video this stuff. Thanks Again .

Omg! He got his enbloc off of gun jesus! What a crossover episode.

Mark, you confirmed my thought that the RSC was a precursor to the M1 rifle. What's new is old, what's old is new.

Used to open a mannlicher berthier 5 rd carbine. The kick was a mother.

C&Rsenal should make a short video just to redirect the subscribers to this channel. I think not manny people are aware yet.

Muting and allowing it to play through in the background to help your stats.

Great video Mark, as always I learn a lot about methods and processes from you.

That machine work was harrowing! especially with the background clunk and clank noises. It's like watching a thriller movie.

The rabbit hole gets me every time.....

I love to watch your videos because I get to see some guns I have never seen before . Keep up the good work

The assembly process from 25:18 feels like a 1920s silent movie.

I duplicated his actions and hurt my sac when a spring flew off and managed to pinch me.

Ian may do some of the more entertaining stuff but Mark is the one of the few who can keep it happening, by keeping otherwise wall hangers running as intended.

Great work as always!

For sure it would be a pleasure to fire with it - alas very rare in France also! Many thanks for the sounds LIVE, Mark!

I really liked this video. I will look forward more like it. I've built several mgs converted to BATFE approved designs. Some were challenging solving similar type gas problems.

Very cool. I enjoy your mechanical description from a gunsmith point of view.

I wonder if at anypoint during assault rifle developement one of the engineers said "thank god we now have smaller carteidges"

Thank you so much for sharing your tremendous knowledge with the entire world via KZfaq. It's great to hear the story of Gun Jesus helping out Gun Buddha with the loan of an RSC end block that's as rare as hobby horse crap!

outstanding content!

Great look at the operating system of such a quirky but obviously influential old piece. And really glad to hear you make the comparisons to the M1. Too many people think Garand conceived the whole thing out of thin air. Despite the recent US public scorn for France, it is easy to forget that France influenced the US tremendously over the years.

Mark, one thing I've always appreciated about your channel in your choice of music. I'm a life long musician and gun nut. Have you ever thought of posting a play list of some of the musical pieces you feature in your videos?

Magnifique!

2:23 Most Garands are attractive, but that Garand is beautiful

Rewatching some of these videos really makes me think that designers and engineers in the current firearms manufacturing world would greatly benefit from doing their best to be historians of the art to a similar level they are practitioners. Our current reliance on computer-aided equipment seems to have dampened our collective genius. I think the closest we've had to that in recent years was the Hudson company. Mind you, the business and procurement side of their company absolutely tanked them, but they were very open in their use of historical inspiration to create a rather novel design that had significant potential

Love watching you work on Firearms mark.

I would *love* the nickel tour of your shop! Thanks, Mark.

Just as good second time around!

3rd run through. I'm almost an expert on this myself! 😀🙃😂EDIT you need to ask C and R to give a few more shout outs. Get the word out the Internet is a lazy place unless it's shoved in your face

Bonus episode nice

ah grand is advanced RSC that is all.

I appreciate the Chopin also ! Great videos

Do you ever come up with wild ideas to manufacture your own firearms?

12:30 the piece flexes neatly when pushed by the insert

Brilliant

Can u do a video explaining how dry fire can brake the firing pin as I always wondered how as I have heard it’s bad to dry fire because it will brake the pin ad I am like how I don’t get how it’s bad or how it will brake it

Best.Gunsmith.Ever 🤩

Getting 8 lebel shouldn't be hard, ppu sells it. Is that stuff ball n? I don't know.

Always love watching craftsmen work. I have a question. I have a berthier carbine and for some reason the tamper resistant bolts through the stock were missing and filled with putty badly. I replaced them with 4mm bolts. Is there a specific function I should worry about other than to be snug to help transfer recoil and hold the wood grain together? Or is there something very bad about fooling with these. Everytime I see you work I notice you don't fool with these crossbolts and there must be a good reason :) Keep up the good work!

Fantastic! Squeezing five shots out of Label ammo in quick succession is no mean feat!

Ian's RSC by any chance? :)

DO NOT TELL ME you engraved that M-1 !

That gas system is way too similar to a banjo bolt on a (automotive) brake line.

Does anyone else been transported back to Sunday school watching Black and white Harold Lloyd films with that piano music 🎶😂

great work with firing pin and gas piston... i understand that the powder of the modern 8mm lebel is better than the first ones

@06:25 Ahhh yes..! Awesome!

👍👍👍

We need access to marks spotify lol. Or someone needs to make a playlist of his music cause I doubt he has one lol.

So it is not the engineering cluster that we are usually presented with in reviews of this rifle.

A great video. The the blue/grey workbench cloth enhanced the details on the gun parts perfectly 👌. Please don't use the white cloth again.

How to defeat the (Mong / mung) Monster! Please that will be a great show~ =)

Hey Mark, would you happen to know where I can find any repro clips for this rifle? I'd like to shoot mine more, but I don't want to damage the one original clip I have. Thanks!

Fed Ex guy? Sure it wasn't a bald delivery driver with a British accent who never looked in the Pelican case?

Greetings from Poland. I've noticed that owners of gas-operated rifles often handload their ammo so that the powder charge is just enough to smoothly cycle the action. Does this actually decrease the wear and tear on the rifle or is it this done purely to make it easier and more comfortable to shoot? Also, why did you decide to go with the 231 gr Balle N instead of the 198 gr Balle D (which is available new from PPU) in your handloads? Was that specified by the owner?

Thats what we need... a 24 hour RSC store. What a fun action. How exactly do we get one of these beasts? (outside of robbing a museum?)

Did you just freehand that taper?

Mark, I repair and setup machine tools for a living. Been doing it for about 25 yrs. Ever need any parts, pieces, inserts, tooling, gauging etc etc..drop me a message and Ill see what I have or can find for you. Ive got bins and shelves of "stuff". collecting dust and know lots of people who own machine shops and are firearms lovers/makers/tinkerers as I am.

If one wanted to safely dry fire a gun would it be an okay idea to leave an empty case with discharged primer in the chamber to prevent this kind of failure in the firing pin?

If that gun is French it concerns me because it lookslike they took old boiler parts to make that crude gas system not work.LOL I applaude you for re-engineering such a weird gun.

...what's the music during the turning of the firing pin???

Another examlpe of C.M.C. lathe work (Carbon Mark Control)

What was the piano piece playing while lathe was running?

Would it be possible for you to send me the measurements of the RSC clip?? It would be a great help in trying to remake my own

Why did the M1 Garand early in the video have checkering in the foregrip

Why is anvil no longer on CanRsenal?

8 x 50 Lebel, not anyone's first choice for a semi-auto.

who in the hell checkers the stock on an M1 (Marc if it was you i'm sorry)

6:24 for 'ping'

Who checkered that garand ? LOL

Leave it to Ian to have something scarce and French lol

Where can I find RSC 1917 clips?

quite your belly achin and make the parts !

:)

The Gun Devil gave this video a thumbs down.........MAY HE SMASH THAT THUMB ON AN ANVIL.....Damn Him.

Does anyone else think the intro is depressing?

Please forgive my ignorance, but as a complete imbecile with no training or experience in gunsmithing whatsoever, I understand that you have your reasons, but I can't help but wonder why is brazing preferable to threading the firing pin rod and the pin itself then just screwing the new pin assembly together with loctite?

First of all, mr.Novak, could You speak a little bit slower, because Your video watch not only english speakers. I not always understand reasons You choose way to repair . For example, You decided just to replace the heading of firing pin instead fabricate the new one whole pin. And even You did not lock it with threading connection but connected it just with soldering. I guess the firing pin is very stressed part of rifle, and in use will be broken soon again just because the repaired pin was not tempered. If You wanted to keep that rifle authentic for collecting there was not necessety to repair the pin, just clean up would be enough. But if this rifle will be used for firing all it parts should be fully serviceable... Usually Your repair has a goal to get fully working firearm. But this repair seemed was some strange and senceless for me... Anyway, thank You for Your videos, the are very interesting. Greetings from Ukraine!

Hello from England. French Crap.