G41 and G43 parts and pieces

Inequalities between G41 and G43 bolt parts
The carriers are different - it's easily seen.

The bolt housings are different too (here compared to the rather rare milled G/K43 type). The G41 type is about 1.5 mm shorter and 0.10 mm wider. The front parts are different and note also that the cut-outs at the rear part are different.
Some claim BLM used previously rejected G41 bolt housings in their G43 production. This isn't true. They must have had problems with the delivery of the stamped steel housing, and that's why they made their own milled bolt housing. The G43 milled housing appears on Jan. 1945 and very late BLM production - plus on BLM duv 44 in the "c" and "d" blocks.
The milled bolt housing is also seen on the very first (from 1943) Walther G43's.
Upper: G43, lower: G41

The G41 bolt has flat sides. The length is the same.

The G41 firing pin housing is much higher. The locking lugs and the firing pin are the same.

Recoil assembly for the G41W actuator rod

G43 bolt housings
Upper: Is milled like the G41W - see description above
Middle: Is used normally. It's made of stamped steel and has WaAA44 (Merz Werke, Frankfurt a.M.).
Lower: It's like the stamped steel type but has no notch for the bolt hold open lever. Used on some late K43ac45. See the page about the ac45 dual guide rib type.
G41 and G43 bolt housing retainers
The right one is used with the pressed steel G43 housing. The two other are used in the milled bolt housing. The tab prevents the dustcover from falling down. The left is used in G41 and the one in the center is used in G43. The tab is chamfered because it then is easier to assemble the parts. The two types may be substituted.
Narrow dustcover
There are 4 types of dustcover:
1. Narrow (seen here) used with the milled G41 housing.
2. Automatic closing cover with a little projection.
2a. Manual - shortened type 2.
3. Manual - long (it interferes with the safety lever). See picture above with stamped steel housing.


Recoil spring guides
From left to right:
G41, G43 cut at an angle, common G43
L-spring for the front band

Cross lug
Dimensions (in mm):
Rectangular part: 38.4 x 9.9 x 6.0 thread: 6.0 x 1.0 - 5.5 long
Disks: diam. 13.0, 3.0 thick
Knob on left disk: 1.4 high, 7.5 in diam.
Right disk. 2 x 2,0 holes, depth: 1.7, dist.: 10.8
Trigger guard pin
(the little pin which prevents the triggerguard screw from moving)
Dimensions (in mm): Length: 8.60, diameter: 3.45.
The left end turns towards the triggerguard screw - note that this pin just isn't a piece of wire.
Keep the pin in place by pressing the pin back in it's hole and restruck the peen with a prick punch.
Gas cylinder
The one at the bottom is the first model gas cylinder - all "bcd" should have this, as well as "duv" up to around "e" block, and "ac 44" guns up to around "h" block.
The next is made of very hard steel.
The next is made of softer steel and has holes originally. ( 2 x 4 mm holes 62½ mm from the open end)
The top one is chromed.
Front sight bases
Left: barreled thread 14.0 mm diameter. Middle: No thread 14.0 mm diameter. Right: 15.5 mm diameter. There is a fourth variation: 15.5 mm diameter with ribbed ramp.

G41 blank firing device
Seen for sale with WaA135 (=Mauser) which is strange because Mauser didn't make that type G41 - it looks like new. I believe the part is a modern repro.
3 different types of oil bottles
#1 Machined steel, prewar and from the beginning of the war.
#2 and 3 Bakelite - mid war and late war.
#4 Sheet metal - late war, rare.
Buttstock parts kit
The kit includes one complete extractor with pin and spring, a firing pin and a firing pin extention. Here shown with the orange inner wrap and the tan outer wrap.

Another butt stock parts kit - autentic. The cloth is curious and not of military issue. The oiler is of the short G43 type and came from another G43 butt stock. How could a Wehrmacht soldier assemble the extractor with frozen fingers ?
 
See the "short" type to the right. It isn't really short. It's only the bottom plug which is different
Two types of stocks

A "R" marked stock
The "R" indicates the rifle was issued to the French border guards or internal security forces. (after the war of course)

Russian rework
Note the thick dark black color and the electropencilled numbers.

Orion
"Orion" is supposed to be a German company active in the 1980's and in the beginning of the 1990's

Sunburst
The sunburst with a shield in the middle and a number in the shield was an East German proof mark. The rifles were used by NVA and Vopo.

K98 front sight adjusting tool
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