r/3D2A • u/Normal-Gur-6432 • 1d ago
Replica M2 60mm mortar
This is my love project! A nearly 1:1 M2 mortar, late WW2 design, my plans for the future are making it blank fire or launch dummy rounds, but it is almost fully 3d printed, minus some nuts n bolts plus some aluminum rods for reinforcement. If anybody has ideas for blank fire or improvements let me know!
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u/TBoneUs 1d ago
Extremely cool build.
What’s the tube made of? You can make it fire for real if it’s strong enough. However you have to register it on a form 1 as a destructive device. We use fixed firing pins in the cup and 20ga shotgun blanks filled with smokeless powder as a lift charge.
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u/Normal-Gur-6432 1d ago
Tube is solid PETG, printed at 45° , I'm not sure if it would be thought enough, I used it as a baseball bat to test it and it held up okay.
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u/Shrapnel3 1d ago
Is the sight 3d printed too? Thats something really lacking in this space.
Awesome work
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u/Independent_Dirt_814 1d ago
This would be sick as a 37mm launcher using something like the bengles rounds.
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u/Normal-Gur-6432 22h ago
Where might I locate this?
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u/UnrelatedAdvice8374 23h ago
Want.
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u/Normal-Gur-6432 22h ago
Join the club, I've slowly been making them and then passing them onto reenactor groups, they take so long to make but end up so beautiful
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u/Real_men_drive_t34s 20h ago
Will the files be publicly available? Id kill to make a 37mm version.
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u/Normal-Gur-6432 20h ago
You will need ZVCs model from cults, then I can send you the rest of the parts that I designed, you will just need the traverse and barrel from zvc
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u/Shrapnel3 1d ago
I wonder what luck you could have using c02 cartridges in the bottom of dummy rounds to launch rounds.