The Post WW2 Rg34

[pwcosol]

pwcosol - The screwdriver tool is often observed in these post war kits. It has been very hard to come to any empirical conclusions on correct contents due to the mixture and trading of components. Original source material would be of great assistance ...

I have noticed the large tool appears to have an association with the totally unattributed, post-WW2 tins. In post# 26 the large tool accompanies a "forest-green" painted tin. The attached photo appears to be a unissued, factory-intact kit having a OD tin and it being unattributed. In addition, both the kit pictured in Post# 26 and here contain the shorter bore and chamber brushes as well. Cannot say all such kits having the large tool come with the short brushes, but there is an association. Lastly, found one of the pictured "short" tools in a post-WW2 Rg34, along with two others (loose) with a group of eight PW cleaning kits. The I.D. of eylets in the tool on the right are just a bit smaller than the one on the left. However, they seem adequate to also act as a loading tool for a pistol magazine having a slot and button attached... a P.08 in particular. Thoughts....?

 

[pwcosol]

Gents:
After searching for a couple years, finally acquired a first contract Geco Rg34. Of course it would be listed on Ebay.De and from a seller whom refused to ship outside of Deutschland. However, not to be deterred, I reached out to a good friend and he, in turn, to another whom was coming to the SOS from Germany... both former BCN members as am I. Result was the fellow from Germany bought the kit, brought it with to the SOS, and squared it with our mutual friend. He, in turn, gave it to another mutual friend (along with 1200 rds. of 7.62 x 45 he had purchased at my request) at the SOS and it went to Wisconsin. Then last week, kit went to Ohio and was shipped out with five other Rg34s sent to me gratis for helping him out. Oh, what a tangled web we weave in our quests! In any event, the Rg34 pictured exhibits very little usage and appears to be "as issued"... still retaining the HKW. Kit seems to have changed hands in BW service, with the first soldat having etched his name " R J Tornberg" on the obverse flat of the tin. This was later scratched through. Litely on the reverse, the new owner etched his name "Hartmut Bork". The tin exhibits a hi-gloss paint which is not observed on later kits. In looking at these post-WWII kits, am thinking the HKW with flat butt (see Post #4) was the only pattern included with these Rg34s. The other HKW as seen in Post #4 with cupped butt may well be stored, left-over components from WW2 production and more likely used with reissued/refurbished WW2 Rg34s. These are often painted in a forest-green color. Thoughts?

 

[pwcosol]

Adding this URL to what appears to be a Post-WW2 kleinkaliber Rg34:

https://www.k98kforum.com/threads/rg34-gray-tin-22-trainer-for-review.56398/

 

[pwcosol]

Saw this mixed lot of items on Simpson LTD today. Never fails when something you might want to have on their site is combined with a bunch of crap that you don't. In any event, the kit tin pictured in the lot appears to have a bright, forest green paint and is described as having no markings. Oiler, RGK and brushes are typical. However, the HKW looks odd. One can see it is in new condition and is a later, simplified pattern... but not the typical flat one with a much larger, flattened patch slot. The one in the picture is more (toilet) bowl shaped and thin. Post-WW2 manufactured Rg34s are known with at least two patterns of HKW, but this one looks much different from either of those. Thoughts welcome...

 

[Slash]

Pretty sure that I have a post-war HKW of this pattern. Will check ....

 

[pwcosol]

Just got the pictured Rg34 fur Pistolen (I think) today from a friend. Had been looking for a nice example and there are other variants like seen in Post #3. This one is a semi-gloss dark green with white "9.00" stenciled vertically on front of the behalter, which is unattributed. Oiler is typical two-tone brown/black plastic. RGK has link with alloy beads and measures 42mm end to end. There are four short brushes provided... two 9mm bore in the space allotted and two chamber in the accompanying space. A HKW was never required for this pattern. Lastly, there is a striped cotton cloth in the patch compartment and one large wad of gewehrwatte strings stored in the bottom of the space for the RGK. Since the latter is half size (at most) of that for the rifle, the empty space could be shared with the cleaning strings. I realize only the few collect these post-WW2 Rg34s, but there are a number of makers, markings and variants to consider and most are still priced quite reasonably....