In case of a shortage of necessary spare parts, the use of parts salvaged from damaged rifles was permitted. They also produced simple parts like screws, shims, and pins, and made other repairs which were allowed by the locally available equipment. Regimental repair depots repaired the same issues addressed by unit gunsmiths, and also installed parts with non-standard sizes such as bolt heads with longer locking lugs and taller front sights. Rifles with more serious problems were sent to regimental repair depots. All repairs must be made in the presence of the gun owner. According to the 1943 M91/30 and M38 repair manual, a unit gunsmith could replace damaged parts (if he had the necessary replacements) and make minor repairs of mechanical damage to the firearms. Arsenals were the best equipped of the repair depots and were able to make any type of repairs. There were bases that only stored firearms or artillery shells while others has departments for firearm repair. ![]() CABV and ABV bases also had different subtypes. ![]() CABV and Arsenals were accountable to the Main Artillery directorate, ABV to military districts. General description of repair facilities As mentioned in the repair depots markings section, firearm repair and refurbishment depots were divided into stationary repair depots and mobile repair workshops/depots which were located between Army units in field. Stationary repair depots were divided into three main groups – Arsenals, Central Artillery Armament bases (CABV) and Artillery Armament bases (ABV).* During the prewar/wartime period there was a type of a depot called "military storehouse", postwar this was changed to ABV. *This page covers only physical modifications of firearms made by repair depots.
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