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    Posted: Apr 18 2020 at 2:58pm
Hi,
here is a picture of an IBM receiver with a flat area in front of the rear sight.
This carbine (in the 3 million so January to March 1944 number) must have been through the French Army and is not as out of factory (M2 stock, rear sight, bayonet lug).
Would someone know about the flat area? Has this specificity already been observed?
It may only be a machining error...


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Good reporting!

To the flat spot I have observed them on IBM. I would have to look if it was in a specific range.

IBM only delivered for 9 months. they had only one serial number block  3,651,520 to 4,009,999.
They did not use all their numbers. So tough to put it to a date even though some book estimate ranges.
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Here's another IBM receiver flat spot example.
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Strange timing for this topic. Just looking at an IBM right now. Showing a similar flat spot.
Serial range 366xxxx. 

I wanted to ask a question about the rear sight, but won't hijack this thread. Will start another
for that.

Here is a pic of the receiver for reference ....
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The first picture is IBM serial 3 821 XXX.
So we have 3 6, 3 7 and 3 8 example.
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I just saw a Standard Products carbine with similar flat spots posted in the CMP forum.
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Is there any significance to one flat area being behind the sight, and the other one in front of it?
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interesting.
Of note is the fact that the flat area is behind the sight.
Would it be that IBM receivers ' got it in front and SP at the back only?
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I have Standard Products 1985XXX and it has the flat areas in front and behind the dovetail.
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The STD. Product receiver I shared does have flats on front and back. Sorry that I didn’t point that out.
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The following is just a guess!

They would "Gang" mill the receivers to the final profile. This would be an arbor with several profiled cutters would be sandwiched together to make the cut. The cutter in the middle may have left an odd profile when it got to the dovetail which was in excess of tolerances, or maybe it was done on separate passes and the arbor needed to get closer to the dovetail.

Maybe at some point there was a variation of the forgings and the cut would be to great so they reduced the profile

Again, just guesses!

Notice how the flat area is cut perpendicular to the longitudinal cuts of the receiver

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Putting my home-machinist hat on. The flat spots look to have been made on a horizontal mill with a straight wide milling cutter at a depth close to that of a finished profile. I would suspect that the machining steps to produce to top surface of the receiver would be to:
1) rough mill the top of the block with a straight cutter (making the top surface of the rear sight mount)
2) rough mill toward the rear site mount from either side with a straight cutter
3) finish mill toward the rear sight from either side with a concave cutter (to produce the convex top surface)

If the stop point of the #2 roughing pass was set to close to the sight mount, it would cut below the finished profile, leaving a flat spot in the final product.
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interesting study...my Standard 2003520 has no milled spot 
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Just checked. No flat spot, front or rear, on IBM 37317xx, or on Underwood, 61272xx. Seems taht the flat spots are at random. Must be a reason for them.
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For those keeping score, there is an IBM with the flat spot on the receiver on GunBroker now.  Serial # 3,654,3XX.
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The 3.71 I have has at least one flat in front of the dove tail. There's another one here I know but not sure what the serial is.
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Originally posted by foxhole49 foxhole49 wrote:

Just checked. No flat spot, front or rear, on IBM 37317xx, or on Underwood, 61272xx. Seems taht the flat spots are at random. Must be a reason for them.

Yes, the reason is in the rough and finish milling of the receiver contour, as mentioned above.
The flat is cosmetic and a result of forging voids or milling variation. 
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IBM Here 3,849,505 with Flat Spot on the front.
Can't see the backside because of Type II rear sight.


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Also IBM 3,857,1xx with Flat Spot on the front. (Not Mine)

Like the 3,859,505 posted above, both have Round Bolt with the X.

Flat spots on both nearly identical.

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