And so it began

[fishy]

(Or how I spent 6 hours making something that only costs $100)

Doesn't look like much, does it?

take a little off the top here

a little bite out of the middle

What the hell is it for?
it coincidentally fits on one of these

and one of these

drilling the old fashioned way- no DRO or CNC (or what 2 hours of work looks like)

a little bit more sawing

It seems to fit in one of these.

I made another widget to fit previous doodad, no pictures cause I was in a hurry. Here's what it looks like so far.

tune in next time, for "how I'll spend 6 hours making $50 of picatinny rails."

 

[Adam]

Looks good. Nice to see someone making their own stuff.

Adam

 

[fishy]

Looks good. Nice to see someone making their own stuff.

Adam

Once I get the rails on it, I'm gonna try to find an anodizing place that wont charge me more than a new FF tube would cost

 

[KDX]

That is cool. Congratulations on having the skill and equipment to be able to do something like that.

 

[fishy]

That is cool. Congratulations on having the skill and equipment to be able to do something like that.

You could put quotations around skill if you'd like. I just pretend to know what i'm doing.

 

[BigUglyMan]

I love making stuff that I could buy. But mine usually ends up costing more in materials than the boughten item would have set me back!

 

[fishy]

I love making stuff that I could buy. But mine usually ends up costing more in materials than the boughten item would have set me back!

I'm seeing that with an induction generator I'm trying to build. Will have probably been cheaper to buy a 1200w genset on sale at hd.

Keeps my mind from wandering, so who cares

 

[fishy]

After installing said freefloat tube, I got lazy and figured I'll just get it powdercoated and call it complete. I also started a new project

What is it?

 

[simpleton]

What is it?

Something underslung....launcher I'd guess???


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[fishy]

 

[Hokus Grey]

This forum never ceases to amaze me with it's genius. I am about as unskilled in the area of building stuff it's sick.

I can however carry heavy loads over long distances.

I'm an a$$.

 

[Ar180shooter]

You could put quotations around skill if you'd like. I just pretend to know what i'm doing.

Lol.

But seriously, nice work. I wish I had the tools and know how to do projects like this.

 

[USP]

I would pass of getting it powder coated, try liquid paint instead.

 

[fishy]

I would pass of getting it powder coated, try liquid paint instead.

I gave that some thought as well. I don't want to try ano because I need some sort of coating that a- doesn't cost alot and b- covers up the marring from my brass steady rest fingers.

I may have to bite the bullet and make up a bullnose center for my tailstock, so I can turn the OD of the tube down.

 

[USP]

A decent powder coating will require about 3mils of coverage, this may or may not impede tight tolerances. Also for paint if this part gets hot, maybe try a cheap flat black liquid spray on bbq paint. It will look half decent, go on easily and be able to resist the heat.

 

[Davie Sprocket]

You can get cerramic coating paints, plus powder coating isn't that bad depending on were you are, ask around and if you find someone interested they may do it for free. The CT rattle can bbq paint does work too, I've used it on paintball stuff.

I spent months building a gingery style lathe. In the end it worked out to be about the same size as a lathe from busy bee for about 1000 bucks. If I had worked extra hours instead could have payed for the lathe in a couple weeks. But that is way to easy and one of the reasons why we build rather then buy. Plus its the time doing that we enjoy.

Nice job on the free floating shroud, please post how your gonna make the weaver rails very interested in seeing that, have a project in mind to build an mbr style shroud for my m14. Have a good one.

Dave

 

[USP]

Generic powder coatings wont be able to take high heat and will degrade/ smoke/ discolour over time. The major problem with them is that they are applied to thick compared to liquid coatings with the resultant issues with fit and tolerances of joining parts effected.