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5.2K views 13 replies 11 participants last post by  limpetmine  
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A friend just bought two M1's, one in the traditional 30-06 and the other in that new fangled 7.62 NATO. But he's having difficulty loading up the clips, something to do with an IED in Afghanistan. While worried that it was beyond my meager 3d modeling experience, I decided to try and create an easy to use loader. Although this was my first attempt at creating moving parts, it worked perfectly the first time!

Drop in the empty clip, and stack the rounds in. You can use the lever to push in the 6th and 7th rounds with ease. To seat the 8th round takes a bit more push, but he manages it easily even with a new, tight clip. A couple of buddies that have M1's are amazed by this thing. I'm having too much fun with this 3d printer!

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Very creative. Good job!
 
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PM me your email and I'll send you the STL's, of course for your use only. Unless Thingiverse has changed their policy, anything you host on their platform automatically becomes their intellectual property! I don't think so, Tim!
 
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very creative and simple :)

I made one out of wood 4 years ago based on John Garand design, as a winter project. using scrap wood, I had laying around in my garage.

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I used steel for certain parts that would see wear and stress; like the clip holder, the round pusher handle, the pusher guide(located on the back of the post) and the ammunition track. for the ammunition track I used a couple of the Chinese 10 round .308 stripper clips that I removed the ammunition tensioner out of and set in a furrow. the 30-06 rounds fit in the .308 clip.

and what piece of machinery wouldn't have a data plate :ROFLMAO:

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I got the plans here, although I didn't follow the plans 100 percent:

Oak Clip Loader (ray-vin.com)


there is someone on the CMP forum that found someone selling a 3-D printed version

3D Printed Enbloc Loader Review - CMP Forums (thecmp.org)
 
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Damn. That sucks. Well, it didn't come from me.

I have a similar issue with a car part I designed. Way out there, very low demand kind of thing, but clones of my work start showing up.
 
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