Talk:Vickers machine gun

message: Should the article say something about the popular myth that the Vickers' water-cooling jacket was used to make tea?  Quite apart from a situation requiring heavy enough fire to boil the water not being the most suitable time to stop for a tea break, I understand that the water would've been too contaminated with oil, rust, asbestos etc for even the most hardened tea-drinker to stomach.  Chris 00:10, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: is it that popular a myth?GraemeLeggett 08:41, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure, but it seems to've been persistent enough to have been refuted on occasion.  If it's not that popular, maybe it should be.  :) Chris 11:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You wouldn't use the water from the cooling jacket - you'd use the condensed water from the condenser can. Providing that can was kept clean then there'd be no problem making tea from it. On the Western Front there'd be plenty of times when the gun would be fired constantly enough for the making of tea. You'd just need to wait until the condenser can had enough boiling water in it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.250.154 (talk) 20:18, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tea 

message: Neal Stephenson gives a very colorful description of Vickers in Cryptonomicon.  It's quoted here: . sendmoreinfo (talk) 21:05, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: IIRC the early Maxim guns had a facility for varying the rate-of-fire that Vickers subsequently removed in their modified design. They also replaced brass or steel with light alloy in some parts to save weight.
Maybe the Very  Early Maxims had a "rate of fire control"; but not the '04 or '08 models. The Vickers was designed in 1912, so, no "unnecesaary parts". Toggle link was reversed.  Receiver was not as tall. "The Devil's Paintbrush".Tintinteslacoil (talk) 00:35, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

text: The Rolls-Royce Merlin and Allison V-1710 were roughly contemporaneous in design and neither was designed as a 'replacement' for the other.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.68.219 (talk) 19:29, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cryptonomicon reference 

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message: in the section that lists the armies that had this gun the flag of the peoples republic of china is shown but it is identified as china. given the time when these guns were made it is more logical that they were bought by Chang Kai Shek and later captured by by communist forces when the peoples republic of china was established. please explain this issue  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.245.243.173 (talk) 23:06, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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message: Infobox says 450-500rpm, text says up to 600.  My understanding is that the latter is correct and it was about 600 with the booster and 450 without, the latter seemingly being more commonplace in WWII.  But "my understanding" and "seemingly" is a bit WP:OR if I don't come out with some citations which I don't have handy, so I'm just throwing this out there. --Vometia (talk) 11:19, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rate of fire 

message: Hi , per this edit, you add that the Polish aircraft Vickers used a pan magazine.  This is curious as it would require a total redisign of the feed mechanism unlikely for a small batch and would suggest it is more likely the Vickers K machine gun? Could you please confirm. Cinderella157 (talk) 08:34, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: , thank you for your reply.  Yes, there probably needs to be more on these subsequent developments.  I will put it on the to-do list but when it might be done, I cannot say.  Could you tell me a bit more about the Russian language source you have linked.  The google translator did not translate the web site title and I do not know whether it might be considered a WP:RS.  It would simplify things if it is. regards, Cinderella157 (talk) 01:13, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: * This website ("Уголок неба") founded by Dmitry A. Volkov in 1998 aggregates different printed sources, mostly large handbooks and encyclopedias, and is about as reliable as the sources it uses (they are listed in the end of each article). I believe yes, it can be used as RS (at least in this case), and I used it a lot when I was writing quite a few articles in ru-wiki a decade ago. Ain92 (talk) 07:36, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
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