Brass deflector for WK 180 181 brand new design

nosman

nosman

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Everybody be like, where did you get that brass deflector? I have multi colours, hundreds of hours in research and development to bring you this. Bahaha actually works great so far. Tired of waiting for site sponsors to make one without attachment to upper rail.



 
Yes 3M… I’m having a local machine shop make it out of aluminum minus the Lego logo nubs. That’s where I’ll drill and counter sink for pan head metric bolts. Drill tap the receiver and just like that I’ve got me a shell deflector. I’ll use birchwood aluminum black to make it match the receiver. If it works out good I’ll do a how to on YouTube.
 
Word of advice on the Birchwood Aluminum black, DO NOT SUBMERGE IT, I made that mistake and the acid ate small pits into the surface, I thought it would function similarly to metal blueing, I was wrong, at the end of the day it the finish ending up working out for what I wanted it to, but still, I figured I'd just submerge my part for about 45sec instead of painting the entire part multiple times. Made a custom gas block deflector for my 180, was tired of it blowing holes through my shooting gloves with the gas leakage

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nosman said:
Yes 3M… I’m having a local machine shop make it out of aluminum minus the Lego logo nubs. That’s where I’ll drill and counter sink for pan head metric bolts. Drill tap the receiver and just like that I’ve got me a shell deflector. I’ll use birchwood aluminum black to make it match the receiver. If it works out good I’ll do a how to on YouTube.
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Why not just 3D print the thing out of TPU? TPU98 has enough flex that it won't crack and it is very strong so it shouldn't wear quickly. That'd take 10 minutes to CAD and maybe 15 minutes to print. Hell, I bet you could buy an entire 3D printer for what the machine shop will charge to make one small part.
 
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