"Texas Mac" Mac 10 Firing pin

[TheJankyTexasMac]

Howdy y'all! I know this has been asked before in like 2012 however a lot of the people, that some of y'all recommended are out of business now. I was shooting the Mac when I believe I had an out of battery detonation. I took it apart to find this. As far as I know this is the only damage from the detonation. I plan on sending it to Practical solutions to have them check out the welds and such considering those are notoriously bad. However I'd like to at least have a working firing pin in it. Any advice or direction would be much much appreciated. I have searched quite a bit on my own with no success.

 

[MitchWerbellsGhost87]

Oof…. Good luck with that one. Your best bet is gonna be finding a complete Texas MAC semi auto parts set on a Gunbusters auction on GB, buying it, salvaging the pin and then flipping the rest of the parts…

Or finding a machine shop that can replicate it for you. Sam from PS may be able to do it. Worth asking…

Texas parts are impossible to get.

 

[Deerhurst]

I'd look at finding a machinist that wants a little challenge. It doesn't look too bad. Material choice will be important

 

[LawBob]

I'd look at finding a machinist that wants a little challenge. It doesn't look too bad. Material choice will be important

Sam welded up my Texas FÃ, new trigger, grip, safety like and original.

and I sold the Texas parts. Interestingly the guy who bought my upper then tried to resell it in GB (not sure if he made more money, didn’t care)

 

[MitchWerbellsGhost87]

Sam welded up my Texas FÃ, new trigger, grip, safety like and original.

and I sold the Texas parts. Interestingly the guy who bought my upper then tried to resell it in GB (not sure if he made more money, didn’t care)

Texas uppers aren’t worth much, they have stamped front trunnions that are flimsy with a threaded cuff that holds the barrel into the receiver, it loosens very easily. If you so much as slightly over tighten a barrel extension the entire barrel pops free.

The SMG Texas bolts are a bit more of a desirable item, only because they are rare… the bolts were also constructed slightly different than the originals. Leatherwood used the same casting for the semi and full auto bolts. They had the feeding surface and firing pin attached to the body of the bolt with pins. This allowed him to use the same casting for both 9mm and 45 as well as SMG and semi auto. The bolt has the same profile as the original cast MAC bolts.

A lot of what leatherwood did with the texas guns had been explored during his time with the original MAC when they started experimenting with making the gun cheaper to manufacture, using stampings for every single component. Those stamped guns were to be designated “M10A1” but the stamped M10a1 never came to fruition. There was a MAC m10A1 but it incorporated far less design changes as the proposed m10A1 stamped gun. Leatherwood called his Texas guns M10A1 as well, and they were more similar to the original MAC stamped prototype design.

 

[TheJankyTexasMac]

I appreciate all of yalls responses and the history with them. I ended up sending it to the legend himself at Practical Solutions and he literally had it made within a day. That's what I get for not sending it to him in the first place. Long live Sam.

 

[TheJankyTexasMac]

 

[A&S Conversions]

I hope you had Sam make you a spare. Sam does such great work. The community is lucky to have him.

Scott