Thousand_Master
Regular
So I was looking around for some bi-pods for my rifle. I noticed that they were very expensive (and very nice, too 
). I noticed that in concept, the bipods are not all that complicated.
Or so I thought.
Here I am, 2 days later, with numerous burns, and one very nasty cut on my thumb. I missed the tendon by a couple millimeters, but hey, nothing really bad happened, and I got a pretty solid, albeit ugly, F-class bi-pod.
Anyways, enough of me blabbering, here's how I did it!
First, I started with a scrap metal plate. I was originally going to use a plasma cutter, but I was impatient to get started and just used an oxy acetylene cutter. First mistake right there. I spent a day just grinding off that damn slag and the rough edges. I bent that big 8 1/2 piece. same with the feet. A torch and sledgehammer worked brilliantly. Use lots of heat. LOTS. Otherwise it has an annoying habit of cracking. That would be bad.
Then I got 8 hinges for the legs to attach to, costing $26.
I clamped and welded those to my bent mainframe.
Then I made these little brackets for the adjusting rod. Tip: slightly grind one side to make it flat, so they don't roll off when you clamp them to weld.
Weld the arms to the hinges, and then weld the other hinges on the end of the arms.
Clamp the whole thing together. for the next welding phase.
(I'm posting a lot of pictures of this phase because that took me a good 2 hours and I was feeling pretty proud of it.)
Weld it!
Many thanks go to my dad for being such an awesome welder.
His comment: "Interesting design. Is this a space ship?"
Speaking of welding, this is the type of rod we were using. I have no idea what it means, but I'm posting it anyways
Detail of adjusting rod. This one has the threads bored out of it to be free floating. I didn't have a reverse thread nut or even rod, so I just had one threaded bolt.
Almost done. Just need to sandblast that slag off!
HOLY CRAP! IT'S DONE!
My comment: Oh hey, it actually works!
and another.
and another
ANOTHER?!
Ok, I'm done now. I'm going to duracoat it, and my rifle in matching CADPAT.
Post comments on how ugly it is, (which it is) and how much ###ier the Rempel and Sinclairs are (which they are). I'm open to all questions, and if you need more pictures, I've got about 200 of them.
Things I would do differently:
MACHINE IT.
Cut it with plasma
Machine hinges into the plates, instead of having hinges. I don't have a milling machine.
Did I mention that it would be easier to machine it?
Cheers!
). I noticed that in concept, the bipods are not all that complicated.Or so I thought.
Here I am, 2 days later, with numerous burns, and one very nasty cut on my thumb. I missed the tendon by a couple millimeters, but hey, nothing really bad happened, and I got a pretty solid, albeit ugly, F-class bi-pod.
Anyways, enough of me blabbering, here's how I did it!
First, I started with a scrap metal plate. I was originally going to use a plasma cutter, but I was impatient to get started and just used an oxy acetylene cutter. First mistake right there. I spent a day just grinding off that damn slag and the rough edges. I bent that big 8 1/2 piece. same with the feet. A torch and sledgehammer worked brilliantly. Use lots of heat. LOTS. Otherwise it has an annoying habit of cracking. That would be bad.
Then I got 8 hinges for the legs to attach to, costing $26.
I clamped and welded those to my bent mainframe.
Then I made these little brackets for the adjusting rod. Tip: slightly grind one side to make it flat, so they don't roll off when you clamp them to weld.
Weld the arms to the hinges, and then weld the other hinges on the end of the arms.
Clamp the whole thing together. for the next welding phase.
(I'm posting a lot of pictures of this phase because that took me a good 2 hours and I was feeling pretty proud of it.)
Weld it!
Many thanks go to my dad for being such an awesome welder.
His comment: "Interesting design. Is this a space ship?"
Speaking of welding, this is the type of rod we were using. I have no idea what it means, but I'm posting it anyways
Detail of adjusting rod. This one has the threads bored out of it to be free floating. I didn't have a reverse thread nut or even rod, so I just had one threaded bolt.
Almost done. Just need to sandblast that slag off!
HOLY CRAP! IT'S DONE!
My comment: Oh hey, it actually works!
and another.
and another
ANOTHER?!
Ok, I'm done now. I'm going to duracoat it, and my rifle in matching CADPAT.
Post comments on how ugly it is, (which it is) and how much ###ier the Rempel and Sinclairs are (which they are). I'm open to all questions, and if you need more pictures, I've got about 200 of them.
Things I would do differently:
MACHINE IT.
Cut it with plasma
Machine hinges into the plates, instead of having hinges. I don't have a milling machine.
Did I mention that it would be easier to machine it?
Cheers!
