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Message no. 1
From: pgrosse@********.com (Paul Grosse)
Subject: OT: Chain ammo question
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:23:10 -0500
Okay a friend of mine is doing some customizing to his Warhammer 40k
mini's. But he asked a question neither of us had a answer to. He's
making a mini chain gun and he wanted to create the chain ammo from
scratch. Well he wondered what type of material is holding the rounds
together, is it a fabric or some type of metal connecters holding the
casings together? So Since I know there are some ex and current army
members on here I thought I'd ask.

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Message no. 2
From: arclight@*********.de (Arclight)
Subject: OT: Chain ammo question
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:30:30 +0200
At 12:23 21.07.2003 -0500, Paul Grosse wrote:

>Okay a friend of mine is doing some customizing to his Warhammer 40k
>mini's. But he asked a question neither of us had a answer to. He's
>making a mini chain gun and he wanted to create the chain ammo from
>scratch. Well he wondered what type of material is holding the rounds
>together, is it a fabric or some type of metal connecters holding the
>casings together? So Since I know there are some ex and current army
>members on here I thought I'd ask.

Miniguns use desintegrating metallic-linked ammo-belts


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Message no. 3
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: OT: Chain ammo question
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:02:21 +0200
According to Paul Grosse, on Monday 21 July 2003 19:23 the word on the
street was...

> Okay a friend of mine is doing some customizing to his Warhammer 40k
> mini's. But he asked a question neither of us had a answer to. He's
> making a mini chain gun and he wanted to create the chain ammo from
> scratch. Well he wondered what type of material is holding the rounds
> together, is it a fabric or some type of metal connecters holding the
> casings together?

Most modern machine guns use, as Arclight mentioned, what are known as
disintegrating-link belts. These have metal clips that look like C's (or
sometimes O's) stacked on top of and beside each other, into which the
rounds are held; each of the links goes around two adjacent rounds, and so
holds them together in a flexible manner. The weapon pulls the rounds from
the links, and ejects the empty casings and links separately.

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