My grandfather has passed suddenly and I'm barely keeping myself from punching anything until my hands break. I put this 1893 turk mauser .45 acp conversion together today.Post your projects please, I need to focus on something or I'm going to crash out, 3 stents with a 90% blockage shouldn't have been an issue in 2025.
>>64159301
My grandfather died the same week I lost my wallet. I was supposed to fly to see my grandmother, her only male grandchild, and spend time with my sister. I don't give a shit how you feel. You don't know what anger is.
>>64159571im not op, but everybody suffers at some point anon, and i've suffered a great deal more than you ever have or likely ever will due to my illnesses, so we should all look out for eachother
>>64159301Same here. I've made terms with it and got to see him before he died, but it's hard to believe he's gone. Anyway, that better have been a gun that was already fucked by bubba or had a poor bore. Any idea what kind of sights you're gonna put on it?
>>64159301I'm working on a semi auto suomi from a kit and my friend was helping me with it, but he left the receiver in his workshed and it happened to get broken into, and whoever broke into it stole the incomplete receiverits strange though because it was just a metal tube with some threading on the end and some incomplete grind markings, so i have no idea why they grabbed that instead of one of the many expensive power tools laying aroundi'm pretty mad about it though because that tube cost me $210 in all
>>64159301I finished an 80% 1911 today I completely deleted the grip safety and sanded it down to the frame for a higher grip
>>64159862Maybe he fucked it up and just told you it got stolen
>>64159885he'd have to fuck up really badly on a portion that really isnt that hard to do (slots for the rear sight and trigger group, which any mistakes on would just be covered up by other parts)and he said he'd pay for a replacement
>>64160004Your friend likely now has a full auto Suomi receiver.
>>64160026it'd be a massive pita to bore out that tube to make it fit the original bolt
>>64159668It was a bare receiver, with just a trigger. I may be an amateur, but I'm not a hack
we found the receiver, my dumbass forgot i put it in his dremel case
>>64159301People die. All of us. Anger is an initial stage but without profit. Our first bereavement is practice for the next and the next. Trips may be postponed and wallet contents reconstituted (I wear a surfers wallet tethered to my belt with paracord so mine never leaves).Do whatever is wise, chosen coldly.
>>64159872That's neat. Where'd you get the 80 anon?I've got mixed feelings on the grip safety delete, but recognize that I probably shouldn't.Did you buy a jig too, or just use existing milling exp?
>>64159872a 1911 without a grip safety is like an angel without wings desu
how fucking retarded are you people to get angry about an old person dying? that's literally what they're supposed to do. they lived a full life, got married, had kids, had grandkids, retired from their job and enjoyed their twilight years. you are unironically subhuman if any aspect of this situations makes you mad.
>>64159301RIP Grandpa. May his memory be a blessing>>64159571It's not a contest, friend.>>64166713Everyone interprets life differently, and we don't know the relationship they had. Shut the hell up
>>64166803>Everyone interprets life differently, and we don't know the relationship they had. Shut the hell upNo, this is some fagboy shit. This guy's grandpa lived a great life in the best country on earth when it was still a real country and this crybaby is angry about his entirely expected and normal death. In the good old days men would sing songs and celebrate the glory of his life. Fuck OP and fuck you.
>>64166881you are so cool, perhaps the coolest guy posting on 4chan right now
>>64166890My uncle died literally two days ago. Do you know what we did? We went around to his widow's house, got some good food, drank his wine and shared stories and jokes about his life. You genuinely need to kill yourself if you get angry about this sort of thing. Actual third-world behaviour.
>>64166803Thank you anon, it doesn't help any but at least it's some sort of sympathy, I'm angry because it was supposed to be a routine procedure to place some stents, a procedure that pales in the face of what they cracked my grandmother's chest open years ago to preform a triple bypass among other surgeries because she wouldn't stop smoking till the early 2000'smaybe she was built different, but grief has eroded something in me
>>64166913nobody cares lil sis
I swear to God this stupid fucking motorbike is going to make me insane.every time I fix something, something else breaks!why did I buy a ukrainian motorbike when there's a war going on?!
>>64159301you should put a suppressor on it
>>64159872every 1911 that isn't a solid gi style hammer should be taken apart and FIXED by putting one on it instead.
>>64166913Youre beung a dick retard. Idk wtf you get by thinking that anger isnt a normal part of the grieving process but you just sound fucking ignorant. Educate yourself and quit acting above someone over something so fucking normal you stupid little ignorant bitch. Its literally behavioral psychology on grieving you fucking mouth breathing twit.
"I never felt that way!" Sorry youre too self unaware to realize yes you have grieved that exact same way you brain dead viking larper piece of trash. Sorry youre too goddamned stupid and ill adjusted to grasp the difference between your experience and OPs but i am not sorry to tell you that if you think youre special or different youre sadly mistaken.
oooh this is how you know its good, when they start just posting without even quoting any post numbers. you KNOW this shits gotten real. shits PERSONAL.
>>64166913You're not a real man and your civilization is a waste.
Anyone buy any cool parts kits recently?Hardmode: only reply if actually going to build it.
I am awash in $115 g3 kits. I should finish this one up this week, I fitted the mag catch last night so the rear stock pin hole reinforcement is the only remaining 'big' operation
>>64159872>sanded it down to the frame for a higher gripshould have undercut the trigger guard too
>>64172640you need to get some rustolium paint on that reciever or its gonna rust
>>64172953>painting before welding the stock pin reinforcement ISHYGDDT
>>64172953I'll blast it all again after welding is complete, before cerakote. I would like to parkerize first but my gigantic stainless pot is only mp5 sized
Here is my nearly finished WristWrecker5000 project
>>64159640Sounds like you're defective and should die.
>>64175668Already idiot scratched it...
Plugged the Hillary hole on my 686 today. Turned down a little stainless rod, cut the retaining groove with a threading tool and polished it. It’s a little below flush but I can make another one easily
>>64177655The frame on the lathe was just me checking the fit of the plug
>>64159301They call that the fez whatley
>>64177655>>64177660very based
>>64159301i need a very slim red dot sight to put on my airgun instead of the original fixed sights. like i want to replace the rear wing with a red dot and remove the front sight. the footprint of the rear sight on the barrel is 16mm with 2mm of space on the left side and 3mm on the right side of the barrel. can anyone find me a 2 moa or smaller dot red dot from china (im poor as hell) that can fit that? i can make some extra space for it but i dont want to cut too much wood off. a normal RMR doesnt fit there sadly as most of them are 22mm wide or higher
>>64178226im poor as in i can afford to spend max $100 on that red dot
>>64178226i found this just now but it should fit good enough to not be ugly. my whole idea in this is i'm gonna replace the rear sight with pic related and then mount a flip mount magnifier optic on the dovetail, there is gonna be a lot of distance between the red dot and magnifier so i dont really know if it will create issues
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>>64175668explain
>>64180637.50BMG 1911 upperdo I need to explain more?
>>64181491Jesus Christ. pls come back to us a video when you fire it.
>>64181491How much do you hate your wrist? Did you two break up or something?
>>64167234Why did you buy a ukrainian motorbike when its just a bad copy of a german bike? You can find used airheads all day long man.
>tfw wife and baby and house in woods but no more gunshop because barn doesn't have lectric
>>64181491un-fucking-fathomably based. please post a vid of you firing it at some point
for me, its the mp28
>>64181491holy kektrue k autist
mockup of a dedicated pistol caliber bolt action that hasn't progressed any further than the barstock sitting on my desk
>>64175668>>64181491un fucking real
>>64181491Hot damn.
>>64187341nice
>>64181491Holy fuckin shit. The board isn’t dead.
bump
>>64159301>My grandfather has passed suddenlyJust THE LORD fixing one of his mistakes. Be happy that the world is now a slightly better place with one less WICKED soul bound for HECK
>>64194087If you're trying to ragebait me, you aren't any good at it. I'd throw hands with saint peter when I meet my maker, because in my opinion the lord's mysterious ways need to be corrected with a 24oz ball peen hammer to the skull.
Finally converting my slant receiver thumbhole stock M77 to a normal stock. I'm making the stock myself out of some scrap, and probably going to repair the receiver with some scrap steel too. I have a piece of sheet steel that's like .050", whereas the receiver is like .057" (nominally .060" I think). I think I can make it work if I can't find something thicker.
>>64159571Oh wow, you experienced the exact same thing as well as a minor inconvenience, how heartbreaking anon. I've had friends and family lose people under genuinely tragic circumstances, and yet I've never gotten into a dick measuring contest with them on whos more of a whiny faggot. Seems like a phenomena pretty exclusive to mentally ill people on the internet
I'll work on a Browning B525 kit in 20Gauge this year even tho it pisses me off and I don't want too. I'll also be making a H&H sidelock, which is cool
>>64194373Almost done making a piece to mate up with the existing trunnion. Will I fuck it up by rushing the last bit like usual? Find out on the next episode of Dragon Ball Z!
>>64199005Every time I read through these threads it fucking pisses me off that I don't have a lathe and mill.
>>64201451Mine is a tiny mini mill only barely better than nothing.https://littlemachineshop.com/products/product_view.php?ProductID=3990&category=2122081981Maybe calling it barely better than nothing isn't quite fair, any milling machine is a significant upgrade over no mill, but you really have to take light cuts with something like this. Wish I had more room when I bought it, would have gone with something bigger.
>>64201451I finally bought a mill in May. Before that I had access to my dad’s lathe which is just a Precision Matthews 1640 with a different name and colour scheme. My dad’s got a big shop so he let me put my mill there otherwise I’d have no where to put it. Before I had my mill I’d have to dick around with a drill press and scribing lines and using files and shit. Having a mill is a real game changer
>>64199005As usual, my lack of welding skill has given me a bunch of grinding to do, in this case very carefully with a Dremel. I'll spare /k/ the details.
Bumping so this thread doesn't die if there's another spamwave.
>>64181491.50" barrel length too, I see.
Pic from when I bought an SKS from that Chinese made/Albanian used batch. Filthy. And someone broke the safety spring, of course. I think I was only able to get it out because it was snapped. Still trying to work up the courage to try and throw the new spring in. I think you might need to punch out a pin or two to do that, though, which is fun on a gun that hasn't been apart since it was made in 1960/1970-something. I believe the trigger group is matching to the rifle, too, so I have to be careful. Not to mention the retarded prices SKS trigger groups were fetching last I checked should I really fuck up.
Well even if I'm not getting any better at welding, I'm getting pretty good with a Dremel.
Totally forgot to post a second pic. That sear was fucking stuck. I honestly thought I got fucked lol. I think I had to tap it free or something.
one more, very filthy.
>>64159301Whipped up a light mount for my trench gun. Just printed plastic and spray paint for now until I feel like shelling out the bucks to get it milled or metal printed.
>>64159301I have no guns to post but I hope you heal and get better OP, good luck man.
>>64175668>>64181491Are you fucking
>>64159571You were probably drunk or high
>>64181491fucking based. if you still have hands post a vid after you shoot it>>64187341most aesthetic smg>>64159301OP I think that's based on the .45 conversion. I have a .380 barrel from a Hi-Point and a bunch of PPK mags I'd like to do something with one day>>64167246he should
Alright /k/, I’ve been on the hunt for a cheap, irreversibly pre-bubba’d donor mosin for a project and I’ve finally found one. This goes one of two ways:>Rhineland Arms stock>glass bedding>POSP mounting plate>8x42 POSP>Timney triggerBasically a combloc bastard stepchild to my AI AT, pic related OR>obrez>5x8x24 threaded >brass grip cap>maybe Timney triggerWhat do?
>>64210214I've thought about giving a 10/22 an AWP style stock; I say go for it.
>>64208999Only change I'd make is to hide or remove the front most slot or two but that's just me overthinking aesthetics over practicality for future use.
>>64167246Got to hold one of the reproduction ones. It was an absolute joy.
This thread reminds me to finish my warhammer models. Problem is that ive been unemployed since march despite applying for shit like a madman and now im pretty depressed, I sent out an app to ICE so maybe I can bag some illegals and fund my plane addiction. Also, ive gotten into a purity spiral with my stupid space man models and now I cant accept an "ok" level of painting, so now it takes me a day just to get one dude done, and my pile of shame is growing.
>>64209619The Last EMS call ( he retired in 1996 a year before I was born and was driving ambulance up until his death part time at 81, 29 years) and the Honor Guard still has me fucked up, along with taking home his blaze orange faded fudd cap and faded orange wool shirt, it's the end of an era in my life that could have been avoided for a little longer, but I had been dreading since my teenage years.talk to your elders, learn their stories. we are farther apart than we have ever been, go make friends with the elderly, it hasn't been the first nor the last elder I've lost that has been related to me or not, just the one that has hit me the hardest.
>>64213446edit: I was born in 95' the little old lady Was Betsy J. who lost her son (and another whom I wasn't privy to details) in the vietnam war, the family lost her house on one of those reverse mortgage scams. her daughter, later lost the battle with cancer and widowed her husband who does things with cigar boats, superchargers and fiberglass. Betsy's house had 3 majestic pines at the front of her house I'd mow around the new owners had hacked down, I guarantee the stickers her children placed on the bay window were scraped off without a thought, to bring this more into context she passed around 2019 and remembered playing around the divot in m family's current front yard where a birch tree had been after it's initial construction in 1911
>>64212574I like that idea. Will implement that and see how it looks.
Bump!
All I have left is this pic of the gunk that came out of that SKS. I have a project gun waiting to be shipped so no pics yet.
I'm going to finish welding the bit of bent steel to unslant my M77 receiver tomorrow night. I hope this thread survives until then.
>>64159301You think you have it ufcking bad, huh bitch? I learned how to sing the bleach intro in japanese to impress the gamer girl in my class and she didn't become my girlfriend. Shut the fuck up and stop bitching. faggot
>>64159571My father had untreatable cancer for over a year and none of my siblings or him bothered to tell me until a week before he died. I didn't get to see him until his funeral.
>>64218239>unslant a slantthatsracist.gif
>>64210214If you live in Ohio I have an mosin receiver I was going to use for a 450 marlin conversion. Can't find a gunsmith to do the work despite offering a stupid amount of money to some.. barrel was removed previously by a gunsmith who had no idea what he was doing. So the barrel shank is mangled to fuck due to him using a pipe wrench to take it off....Then he put the barrel back on before he closed the shop...> Have a timney trigger too...
>>64221546Never mind read the part where you said you already found one. > Anyone know of any gunsmiths who would convert my bubba'd mosin?
Anyone know a good bufferless 9mm AR upper? I’ve got a really dumb idea involving a bullpup chassis and a stern defense mag conversion on one of my cheap poverty pony AR15 lowers
>>64221546>Can't find a gunsmith to do the work despite offering a stupid amount of money to some.Gotta love that. Hoping my project gun have the same issues crop up; literally ream the chamber and maybe thread. Job's been done on countless thousands of this rifle so it doesn't take unobtanium ammo anymore (yes I have a decent unmolested example too but this one is literal bottom of the barrel of the bottom of the barrel).
>>64159301From a anon who has lost many family members from causes both natural and sudden you need to remember the good memories and the fact that he loved you, and wouldn't want you to hurt yourself because of him. Grieve, but don't do something you'll regret.
Well you can definitely tell where the welded part is. I guess I can only improve from here. For now though, I'm going to clean up the stock a bit and figure out how to drill a straight hole through the length of it without cracking it.
>>64181491>that barrel length IS THAT EVEN LEGAL
>>64223506from OP, thank you all I'll admit i've had a few vodka fueled crashouts in this thread but I thank you all for your sympathy, I haven't felt myself being the same since I accepted he was gone, and It feels like a light in my eyes was permanently extinguished, every thing feels.. Wrong.maybe I'll try to reweld that vz-61 properly tomorrow, rewelding an ak-47 out of bits and pieces of torch cut milled polish AKs was far easier, should have known the Czechs would be precise.I'm not doing well but I'm still moving, I'm disgusted by the ways my so called family are handling the estate as well.
>>64223659>estate Wait until you see a 4th generation family farm sold off so your POS great aunt can spend the rest of her life on cruises and credit cards. Yeah there is a reason my GA had to flee from my state.
>>64223685my great uncle Bill (the eldest son) pulled the trigger on selling the family farm "between the three living brothers at the time". 80 acres because "It wouldn't be fair for his kids because of land taxes" the ancestral land, swamp, field and woodland their great grandfathers came from poland to farm and sold it for a paltry 200k and 20 year hunting rights, sure the current farmers are good people and love the original homestead, apple trees, guest shack and all the falling down outbuildings and all, but I'm starting to hate that colorblind architect bastard, because to me, he was complicit to all of this. he was the firstborn and supposed to be a leader, to be an example, and all he was was a destroyer
>>64189429Make a modern DeLisle in .45ACP using wipes. >>64210214I have the weirdest boner. Give it front legs and a PU bolt and I'll take twelve. >>64223547You mean from one side of the receiver to the other? Put a wood spacer inside the receiver, so you're drilling metal > wood > metal.
>>64223659>I haven't felt myself being the same since I accepted he was gone, and It feels like a light in my eyes was permanently extinguished, every thing feels.. Wrong.NTA but I've had far too much death in family/friends and I feel that. Honestly not sure if it ever gets better. And everything is...best description I can say is changing. It sucks.>I'm not doing well but I'm still moving, I'm disgusted by the ways my so called family are handling the estate as well.I won't get into specifics but I just witnessed that same god damn thing. Person dies; they loved (thing) and won't get rid of it even though they haven't used it in 15-20 years. Reminded them of better times. Family all says they love (thing) and it reminds them of (insert parent(s)). Yet the time comes when they're both gone, I begin to wonder if it's poor taste to ask what they're doing with (thing) because it would actually be useful to me, and being very close by, would be very easy for me to pay them a couple of bucks for it (or god forbid give me it for all the help). Then the family who said they loved (thing) comes and starts cleaning out the house and wouldn't you know it, they hired someone to take (thing) away for a couple hundred bucks because it was "beyond saving" (repair cost ~$5-7k?) despite them all making north of $100k/yr as I heard it from their parents, despite them saying they'd have loved to get it up to their house as a reminder of their parents, all without asking me if I might know a thing or two about it or want to take a crack at making it work (as I desperately need something like that, especially for cheap). And they did that instead of saving it despite some of them inheriting large estates/sums from other family rather recently as I understand it. Being vague for whatever reason even though I know they don't read any part of this site but fuck does it piss me off.
>>64194087Wierd ragebait post aside, why are you fluent in basedspeak?
>>64159862.break inshop broken into. thief took mangy jacket worn when chilly and a coffee can full of scrap brass pieces. left starrett, milwaukee, etc.
>>64223833>wipesI'm hoping silencers with wipes become more common with $0 stamps. Kinda want to try one out on a 22, though IIRC they're not recommended with HP ammo, which is kinda lame but understandable. Have a feeling that it could easily be solved only having one wipe at the end and both slitting and punching a hole big enough to avoid the edges of the HP though. Less effective than a normal wipe, sure, but a slit and cut ~.10 or .15 rubber capped hole is more effective at holding back gas than a ~.25 cal metal/plastic hole, if just a little.
>>64223833Through the length of the stock without the drill bit wandering.
Why yes, I do bump weapons related threads. How could you tell?
>>64226142Dude, same. Would be great for PCCs for home defense. >>64226599Best bet would be to clamp it in a vise and use a drill press. Next best would be to make a jig and drill using that.
>>64229843That and I think it'd be cool for 22LR handguns at the very least. Or maybe carry 9mm; keep the dust and dirt out without having to tape over the endcap.
>>64226599Drill halfway from one side, then halfway from the other? Should meet roughly nicely at the middle. Not sure how you'd do this for a hole that needs to have a stock screw hole at the right angle (therefore two different size holes at certain length), though. Might be jig (or slow and careful) time.
>>64229843>>64232160Good idea with the jig; I was considering something like that, so I'll take it as confirmation. I'll probably have to come up with a way to drill at the correct angle from each end and have it meet in the middle, because otherwise I don't know how I'm going to drill a hole that deep. In the meantime I got the pistol grip roughed out.
And I forgot the image, nothing impressive anyway, but fun enough. I also decided I made the length of pull on the stock way too long. I'm not a big guy (for you), so maybe I'll cut it down a bit.
>>64159301I'll drink to that Anon, my grandad's been gone a year now. Family scuffle took the house with him too.>So yeh. Projekts. Dear Gahd where to start...>5.7x28 M1 Carbine, have some receiver castings, full TDP, playing Johnny Cash with all the parts.>Remington 700 Long Action. Originally going to get a Lothar Walther in .30-06 for it, but I was just introduced to .300PRC>Mini-14 missing the Fire Controls and stock. Depending on how Ruger Warranty sets me up, either flipping for cash as I'm in it for $400, or a Cogburn stripper clip guide to be a new-age SKS>03-A3 drill deactivated. Scrub off some solder, replace firing pin, time a Criterion replacement barrel. Will be my dangerous game rifle with some mildly sized pills.>Colt SMG modernization. Titty sprinkles on rye. How the fuq are Colt Pattern PCC's this goddamn finicky?! >S&W Governor. Rebarreling to a 4" 625 barrel. I want better terminal performance with .410 and ACP, .45LC usage be damned.
>>64232772Are the 03-A3s deactivated by drilling and pinning like the Enflields or what? I've seen some people reactivate Enfields but I don't know how tough they'd really be after getting a hole through the receiver both sides. Great .45/Delisle starting point, though. Wish someone would make an EZ 22LR full conversion kit (new barrel) too. Don't have to feel bad about (semi-tastefully) drill and tapping a gun that was already deactivated, too. Can't say I've seen drill 03s though.
>>642325323d printing is your friend here.Step 1: Roughly measure the stock and the angle you need to drill at. Step 2: Make a jig in some 3d modeling software with the following caveats: Make a hole in the jig where you're drilling into, and over-size the hole to accommodate some sort of metal piping to place in the jig to guide the drill bit. Trust me, any wood drillbit will chew the fuck out of plastic and might fuck up the angle. Step 3: Clamp the stock in a vise, and drill it SLOWLY, taking your time and being extra careful. If you feel something go wrong, better to stop and check than full-send and fuck it up. >>64231380Oh yeah for sure, I was just thinking of the practical side when firing one in situations. >>64232772> How the fuq are Colt Pattern PCC's this goddamn finicky?! It's Colt, so...My question for people here is this: Lets say I've got my SOT / FFL / whatever. I have an AR with giggleswitch, It fires at, hypothetically, 900 RPM. Could I install a gas tube that has a larger ID/OD to lower the ROF, or would that fuck with shit too much?
>>64232537hell yeah brother, I inherited a Romanian AK from my pop and it had an old ugly bump stock on it... very boomer.. anyway I did basically the same thing, I had two pieces of shelf wood that together were the perfect width and glued/fit/cut/sanded my own stockI don't have a pic but mine is also probably a little short, so I made a buttpad out of an old shoe sole lmao, it's also probably too thick and square, as real AK stocks are much more rounded on their bottom and topbut it works, even has an old SKS sling swivel screwed into the bottom corner
>>64159301My condolences, OP
>>64237567Thanks, to say I'm doing well would be a lie.he did say on memorial days that it was like going through the old neighborhood, even though it was acres and miles away, He's back again I suppose.>>64233790foggy memory but I think they snapped the firing pins and welded the safety so the bolt couldn't be removed and replaced with a functioning one
>>64172640Based Real NATO builder.>>64175668>>64181491I'm a bit sad I almost missed this. Nearly two weeks ago, how does the Wrist Breaker go?>>64232772>5.7x28 M1 CarbineYou COULD do the easier thing here and build the carbine for 5.7mm MMJ (.22 Spitfire). It should fit in the regular mags without a problem and give you hell of a lot more velocity.
>>64236981I don't have a printer yet, but can probably weld something usable together with enough beer. I have been recommended the Sovol SV06 here before, too, so a printer is on the list. Is the SV06 still a good printer to start with, or is there something better out there now?>>64237020Post a picture if you can kek.
>>64238872>Is the SV06 still a good printer to start with, or is there something better out there now?Still a good printer but you should check out the r/3dprinting subreddit for more suggestions; I know too little about that stuff.
>>64237692Huh, so less work in some areas and more in others compared to the SMLE.
>>64175668GB2R
>>64241528You should consider killing yourself.
Bumping so this thread doesn't die if there's a spamwave due to the AIDSistani drones in Kurwa Bobrland. Got the through hole drilled in the grip and it fits pretty good. Definitely need a jig and a much a longer bit for the stock though.
>>64244277That turned out pretty decent.
Picked up an Winchester 97 that needs some TLC. I've already replaced the missing or badly fitting parts but the bluing still needs to be redone, the stock needs some repair, and the takedown extension needs to adjusted slightly so it stops snagging the threads on the magazine tube. The barrel may also be a concern. The bore is very obviously worn but I'm not sure how much of a problem that is, I'm not an expert by any means. I can share a pic later if the thread is still up
>>64246816I should really pick up a cheap borescope, holy shit. Best photo I could manage, those dark spots are worst of it.
>>64246816>Winchester 97Those are really relics to be treasured in this day and age.>>64247609Not great, but I've seen much worse ones.
>>64247609its finenot ideal but usable and no danger
>>64247609Buy one of those el-cheapo chinese ones with the control box that has a brightness adjustment wheel. This isn't the same exact one I have but it's pretty good. Only problem is most of them are set to focus at one inch, which is fucking MILES inside of pretty much anything. Get one of the ones that give you the hook, mirror, and other screw-on attachments for around $20 on Amazon. The apps recommended by these cheap borescopes are terrible but I'm sure you could use opencamera or something. Or use the terrible app and just screen record/screenshot as needed.
>>64233790rod welded in the barrel, solder on the bolt face and blocking the mag cutoff so you can't remove the bolt.>melt solder>time a new barrel on>dun
>>64238130I have a feeling the completely 5.7x28's autistic case design will feed fine.>or maybe there should be a feed ramp, don't know yet.Optimal performance be damned, I'm just trying to see how viable M1 carbines in 5.7 are>def not planning on pitching that shit as a viable modernization to Kahr...
>>64248813I mean more because it's something that people already experimented with back in the day. .22 Spitfire / .22 MMJ / 5.7mm Johnson was .30 Carbine necked down to a 40gr .224 caliber projectile, as a lower cost way of making an SCHV rifle, you could just convert existing M1 and M2 Carbines with a new barrel and I think an added bullet guide.Actually worked out pretty well, too, but it simply wasn't as good as the AR15, so it never went all that far, and on the civilian market end, people greatly preferred the cheap .30 Carbine surplus ammo.An M1 or M2 converted for the 5.7x28mm pistol cartridge though is interesting in itself, it might even work in the same magazines (though they might also require a spacer block or something). I like the idea of one like as a handy varmint rifle.
>>64159301Better for him to have died quickly, then become a man you don't know and die over the course of years in suffering. My condolences Anon.
>>64181491I bet you're machining some cartoonishly blasty muzzle brake/muzzle accelerator.
bamp
>>64238130>Nearly two weeks ago, how does the Wrist Breaker go?Had it plasma nitrided, it's now black It's basically finished, but I don't really have a possibility to try it out right now :/>>64250283Was thinking about making a suppressor for it, just for fun... but it would be insanely big and heavy because it would act like a barrel at that point behind the chamber and still wouldn't do much to reduce noiseRight now I will leave it as it is, but maybe later if everything is working fine I'll add a muzzle brake
>>64181491Oh my
Have been working on my "ghetto blaster" 22lr semiauto with fun switch. Not finished yet, waiting on some more parts. Barrel is from airgun
>>64253643What about making a muzzle device which is mostly decorative then? Or making just some kind of loudener.
>>64254403FRT, FFL, or glowie?
>>64254929>mostly decorativeLike what? >just some kind of loudener.I thought about it but I think those loudeners look extremely ugly I'd like something that looks a little bit 1911ish... like something in the form of a barrel bushing or something Btw. I just tested this thing and it works... it didn't explode and holds up just find...
>>64258037How hard did it rattle your teeth when you fired it?
>>64258054Just tested it with a long string and a wall between me and the gun but still it felt like a hand grenade going upI have to admit, that I'm scared to test it out by handbut I will! and I will post a video!Maybe not ITT or even this month, but I will!
>>64175668can anyone tell me what the fuck this thing is?
>>64258462Keep reading.
>>64258462>what the fuck this thing is?Can't you read?It says in the comment and on the slide It's the >WristWrecker5000
>>64258577i read up, fucking hilarious, hope it doesn't kill the designer in a kentucky-esque manner.
>>64259187If he stays away from extremely shady ammo, it should probably be ok.
>>64260713probably
I'm probably going to learn that the retention tooth is too aggressive.
>>64253643NTA, but>suppressor>on a ~2" barrel (plus case length of 50bmg)There's no way minimum barrel length restrictions on a 50bmg silencer are that low on anything commercially available. DIY, it'd have to be the beefiest flow-through silencer ever. Careful, anon, I don't want that thing to be a hand grenade lol.
>>64261926i think he'd have to do an entirely different "upper"/ slide that would have to eb longer and integrally suppressed just to keep it under 30 inches, and that's barely a guess
Gun finally came in. Pics when it's a little cleaner; hasn't been cleaned in 20-something years plus who knows how long it had been stored when it was in the country it had been used by.
>>64159301Well, I turned pic related into a useable stock because type 56s have a fucking 11inch lop and I have a 16 inch lop
>>64264082Here's the finished project. The leather thread I used didn't stay perfectly straight unfortunately and I couldn't quite match the color or curve of the butt plate but I think it turned out pretty ok
>>64264088Bubba pls
>>64159301Gun as mentioned earlier. Fucking FILTHY. I have only owned a few guns that were so filthy when I got them that they needed a damn bath and this was one of them. Strip, scrub with soap, water, and a plastic scrubber. It's hell on the finish but frankly with this gun, what finish? I think these things are soaked with used motor oil, lol. Even stinks like grease after the bath. I bet just from this pic alone there are anons who can tell me not only the exact rifle but what country used it. Bonus points for correct caliber.>>64264082I remember this. 16" LOP is crazy though lol. I'd have thrown a slip-on shotgun recoil pad to add maybe 1.5" and called it a day. Or replaced the metal buttplate with one meant for a shotgun and fitted that.
>>64264504Op here, RTI? had to UNtribalize my Ishapore N04MK1 by replacing the entire soldered together bolt head and shattered neck of the stock, built in 1962 and the savages can't grasp the concept of a screwdriver or maintenance.
>>64264088>I think it turned out pretty ok
>>64264597>RTI?Nope! Centerfire. $70, not guaranteed to be complete, no bolt.https://centerfiresystems.com/ishapore-no-1-mk-iii-shotgun-model-410-musket-surplus-incomplete-c-r-eligible/>had to UNtribalize my Ishapore N04MK1 by replacing the entire soldered together bolt head and shattered neck of the stock, built in 1962 and the savages can't grasp the concept of a screwdriver or maintenance.Mine's over 100 years old, IIRC a 1916. The screw under the stock at the rear sight wings is FUCKED; ironically the one holding the wings in under the barrel is immaculate. Someone did something to the nosecap (side) screw to fuck the threads impressively, like they struck it with something hardened. Need an upper handguard, maybe both sections; might whip up a repair. Buttplate screws need to be hit with a cutoff wheel to restore the slot and make them functional enough to remove and properly cut the slot (easy). Needs a bolt (duh). Stock needs repair so it doesn't rotate in the receiver. Reinforcement block in the rear of the lower part of the forestock (whatever you call that) needs to be epoxied back in. Needs a lot of cleaning. And probably throw in a rebore to .410 shotshell for fun (and so I can shoot it). Also, after scrubbing on the stock with Dawn and hot water for a couple hours like you would on any filthy-ass beat-up Indian surplus SMLE, I nearly shat a brick when I saw it was a fucking LONDON SMALL ARMS.
>>64264203In my defense, bubba had gotten to the bayonet, sling swivels, and rear sight long before I got the chance to molest her
>>64264656well my fellow /K/ommando, I ask you to observe the youtuber called RaKum Projects.
>>64264504>>64264597Also, I'm missing a sling swivel? I didn't know they ever deleted the front swivel for cost/time savings, dafuq? I'm sure I've seen it hundreds of times but I never noticed until I owned an SMLE with it missing.>>64264686I like his videos; they're pretty good. His videos are why I even consider the possibility of being able to repair an upper handguard (and hide the repair under a barrel band). Whether or not I'll be able to find matching wood and match the finish, though? That's another story entirely lol. The small parts and maybe the receiver will get tossed in a pot of boiling water to convert the rust. Shame the follower will lose its cool green paint, however. Hoping this one will convert pretty good and I won't have to repeat the rust/convert process too many times. It appears fresh and blue (and I mean BLUE) when I was cleaning off the manufacturer's mark so it might be mostly just dirty with light rust on most of the important parts. BTW, it has a matching LSA stock, too! If that's not a fire under my ass not to fuck up restoring the stock I don't know what is.
Nosecap is proving to be strange. Doesn't match most of what I've seen. Seems to be a different cut (top) as well. 5 digit serial number on it with a letter below rather than above on the end of the cap.
>>64264088The SKS doesn't have very long length of pull, but goddam must you be a real tall motherfucker if you felt you needed all that extra length, like straight up Lanky Kong arms.I'm not gonna gripe too much about an SKS, millions of those, and the replacement sight and stock modification suggests it's your working rifle, so if it handles better for you in a practical sense, I guess that's the important part.If those peep sights maintain zero, their longer radius and superior aperture should really make them much more practical and an improvement in handling.Aesthetically though, I don't think it looks very good, and if you're willing to do woodworking proper, consider making just a completely new stock for it some day. You could even give it a grip profile you'd like better.>>64264665Fair.
>>64264088What the actual fuck, i'm 6'0" and prefer the SKS standard LOP.What kind of martian NBA player are you to want a stock that long?
>>64264088
Doing some research to find parts (holy fuck MK III parts dried up) and I find this. Ishapore paint can be tan? The fuck? Mine has two, no, scratch that, fucking THREE shades of green on its barrel but this makes me wonder what other colors they used and what this paint's original use was.
>>64187341Parts kit rebuild or actual full fun?
>>64167246I'm legitimately doing this. So far I have the SMLE already set with caliber conversion kit and a .45 can on the front. Just gotta.....make it shorter.
>>64271915OP Here, Rhineland arms sells a mock delisle barrel and suppressor kit through Centerfire systems, their barrel kits with properly sized anodized barrel spacers fit the shroud perfectly. you could easily fill the aluminum mock suppressor shroud vent holes provided you're good enough at aluminum welding, then you could drill your own barrel gas vents, and figure out your own packing. Might be worth making the barrel the suppressor rather than making double the tax stamp.
>>64264504crusty
>>64272260Fucking filthy. The rust and dirt was allowed to build up so badly that the rust bleached the wood in one area (I think) and it appears to have eaten a rather large divot in another. Covering it in acetone soaked paper towels and rubbing is the only thing I can do to pull the black dirt and oil out of the stock and it's slow as fuck. Being that it is the absolute bottom of the bottom of the barrel (these were imported over 25 years ago and have sat since!) I'm going to clean it up and make it look presentable and decent (convert rust, remove oil from stock, give the wood a nice mostly correct finish, repair and fill cracks, and fill areas of missing wood) but I absolutely won't feel bad about boring it out to .410 shotshell like I think most of the Indian Musket .410 Enfields have been; might actually be cheaper to shoot than a .303 at this point. Seeing that it was converted to .410 IM single shot in 1931 for Indian use, I doubt this thing has seen much cleaning or care since then. Lower forestock seems to be mismatched as cleaning revealed a ~5 digit number that doesn't match the S/N at all. Upper rear is missing. Upper front is half broken and IIRC there's a non-matching S/N on that. Stock matching to maker but 3 digit number doesn't match the gun. I think I might just give the parts a boil sooner rather than later just to make it look nicer. And I said it before but getting a LSA was absolutely unexpected. I've only ever seen one other in person and it was fucking butchered. Someone half-sporterized it and gave up. Receiver would've been worth it but they tried refinishing it very poorly.PS: Sorry if I accidentally repeated some stuff; I posted in /msg/ as well so I'm trying to balance remembering what I said in which thread.
Bumping for great justice and spamwave survivability!
>use acetone to remove the oil from my SMLE>slow going, but it takes all that oil out and I get either very close to or fully get all the oil out and I'm back to bare wood in several areas>shitty nitrile gloves let the acetone through like cheeseclothfugggggg>keep going despite the quality of my supplies>set rifle down>come back next day>it's black againWell ain't that some shit? I wonder how deep that oil goes.
>>64260959Update on this.This is a pretty comfortable holster as long as it's resting on soft tissue, and concealable. The bumps make it so if you suck in your gut, your belt pulls the gun with it.
>>64175668>>64181491>>64253643>>64258037why did you do this and when do you shoot it
>>64275785Well I finally got the through hole for my M77 stock drilled. I'll thread a piece of steel rod and take a picture of it assembled when I get home.
Oops, didn't mean to reply. Enjoy your free (you) I guess.
>>64266500Yeah I'm tall and my arms are actually longer then normal so even with armor I'm shooting my M4 with the stock all the way out and it's still a little scrunched. I've done a good deal of wood working before , primarily furniture built up from scratch, but never anything like this. I probably should have straight up refinished the whole stock instead of trying to color match it. That and not use a random leftover chunk of pine I had laying around and gotten a decent piece of hardwood. if I ever find a bayonet mount for it I'd probably try and redo it properly maybe even make a new stock. It doesn't seem that hard to make. If I can do that successfully I'll probably give it a shot on my M1. Its not quite my primary rifle since I figured out how to build a IL complaint AR (ammo cost so much now) but I still enjoy shooting it and I'll admittedly cry less and likely be in less legal shenanigans if I have to use it. >>64266909I found the M16A2 I shot qual with a tad short in armor so yeah
I'm finally figuring out how to get all that dirt and oil out of the Indian 410 SMLE. This is going to sound insane but it works and it works without using anything like lye (oven cleaner) or anything crazy that will actually damage or bleach the wood as long as Murphy's is close to neutral. My process is:>put wood in black trashbag with plenty of air>tie shut to keep air inside>place in direct sun to bake the FUCK out of it, preferably on a dark surface>take inside>use Murphy's Oil Soap in the "extreme filth" ratio of 1/2 cup to a gallon (eyeball it) with warm/hot water and wipe it on the stock completely covering it>set it in a bathtub about a minute (about the time it takes to clean up any mess you've made)>again take the Murphy's Oil Soap to saturate a PLASTIC scouring pad like pic related from Dollar Tree (IIRC) and scrub the whole length of the stock with the grain (butt to muzzle)>re-apply to scourer or stock if needed while scrubbing>rinse the stock with hot water out of a shower head on jet setting>be sure to completely remove the soap; a clean or rinsed scourer may help herenot sure if it's the Murphy's or what but the water comes out fucking oily and shimmery, as well as filthy from the dirt and oil>take Dawn Powerwash spray (I use clear) and coat the whole stock with suds>let sit one minute again (or clean up the mess again)>use plastic scrubber to scrub the stock again; be sure to wet the scrubber with warm/hot waterthe filth will continue pouring out of the stock; I think each thing I'm using dissolves a different kind of dirt best>once again take the shower on jet and hot and blast the soap off the stock>now towel/paper towel dry the stock until damp but not dripping>take a paper towel, fold it up 3 times, and soak in acetone until dripping>rub the stock as before until it stops working>dry stock>repeat; go back to sun heat if needed or next dayIt's getting closer and closer. Damaged spots are still black; most is nearly bare.
How would you recommend refinishing a stock anons? Just sand it down and then reapply the stain/coating of choice?
>>64280257Highly depends on the gun and stock. Right now I'm doing >>64279597 with >>64264706 for cleaning and I have no need to sand. I could sand but then I'd have to look back into raising the grain and what the proper way to deal with raising and sanding to get a nice finish which is a whole thing I don't want to deal with. Sanding also tends to round details like finger grooves and edges and can look like shit if you fuck it up. I could scrape but ditto. Whatever was originally done when it was made and however it was used left my gun really damn smooth so I'm tempted between BLO, Shellac, and Rustoleum clear coat. Heart says Shellac followed by trying BLO. Shellac will make any curl or wave in the wood shimmer nicely like hand-made furniture would. BLO has never done that in my experience despite claims that it does (and proof that you can). Brain says the stock already has good color (it's English Walnut) and from past experience I know Rustoleum clear (Satin, IIRC) somehow makes woodgrain shimmer like MAD. Least effort, best result if you don't need stain to color the wood. On light woods what you see is what you get and it will be exactly as blinding light tan as it started out as. Obviously don't do that on a rare/collector's gun but it works better than you'd think. Not sure how strong it'd be.Also as for the curl/wave in wood, this is what I mean https://www.chatometry.com/what-is-wood-chatoyance/ and pic is an example. The site has examples that show what happens when you sweep a light across it. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_laRR95IZac and this dude who is obsessed with chatoyancy and shows it off at every point he can. https://www.youtube.com/@Justinthetrees/videos
>>64280257I also just realized you're probably the guy from the /MSG/ thread and I really haven't given any help for refinishing that isn't a clean-off and wipe on job (ie. if you have anything worse than a ding or dent). Here's some pretty good ways to remove old finish. Sandpaper gets clogged quick and sanding finish, ESPECIALLY urethane finishes, makes you go through paper (or constantly have to clean it) like mad. Been there. Scraper is the way to go.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NLQEmwAvo4If you have a spot where the wood has fuzz or splinters, then yeah, sandpaper, like 240 grit. 3M Automotive wetordry (Walmart) is the SHIT and will not leave any "sand" behind like the cheap stuff. Also some good...well, it isn't reading, so I guess watching? Doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same. Some gun related, some wood in general:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSKqIMR-Cvghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Vwa-N90u0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsjnRcmC840https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z_xHK4-3cIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-FEtA0TKUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uoZSWof2DM
>>64279597neat, take a pic of the gun for us
>>64281470I often forget to take progress pics of any project, lol. Can't tell you how many projects I don't have "before" photos of but have plenty of when I'm done or almost done. Here's where I'm at. Think I might've fucked up and made the pic a bit small when cropping and covering the S/N but you get the idea.
>>64159571Am I so downbad that the mere mention of Anon having a sister is enough to get me going?The answer is yes
This is why you do maintenance/conservation, kids. I think the stock had a crack and years of rust and oil not only weakened the wood but also spread the crack. The screw was fused to the buttplate and once turned using the buttplate (very carefully), it acted as if there were no threads left in the wood, just like another screw on the gun. Going to have to buy a dowel, bore that hole out, glue the dowel in, predrill, screw in. That's after I not only degrease the stock but also the chip that came off. That chip, I just threw the thing in a jar of acetone. Fully degrease the damn thing. Might have to do the same to the wrist and butt of the stock as well if not the whole thing. Just so thick and so much oil. The wrist of the stock has a small ~1mm by 2" split that I can't understand (yes, I am mixing metric and imperial). It doesn't reach any endgrain, it just starts in the middle of the wrist. So between this chip, the damaged handguard, the random crack, and some other things, I think I'm going to have to get Acraglas for sure. I won't be doing that for probably a month at least, though. I may also have a source of walnut I may be able to somewhat color-match to replace some missing wood, but I'll be working with American Walnut rather than English.
cleaned my rossi snubnose for the first time since i bought it. it was at the point i needed both hands to cock the hammer. polished some of the bearing surfaces while i was in there, it's almost nice now
>>64284351Something feels uncanny about that image. Is that an AI Beretta? If so, it managed to get it very close, but there's an offness to it, and not just for the complete absence of markings.
>>64285211NTA but yes it is, look at the takedown lever and how it doesn't have the hook to catch the nub or the Beretta logo and how it's all blobby and fucked up. Also the corner of the trigger guard is all rounded and retarded.
Didn't get to post it earlier but that screw is pretty fucked lol
>>64288376Oof. The contrast between the two screws is really something.
>>64288376I think you need to amputate the left one.
>>64175668>>64181491Feels like a boof post, I love it.
>>64289721>>64290472The crack on the top of the stock (that later became a big woodchip) must've let water in to let that one rust. Top edge of the butt seems to be common damage but it must've happened past the point of any Indian armorer giving a shit; they're usually cleanly chiseled out, patched with new wood, patch finished the same as the stock, and the patch tacked down with small wire nails. Not sure if they're glued; probably depends on the location and size.I'm hoping to re-use the left screw...however I'm not sure how possible that will be. It somehow looks like the threads are even shallower in person. I'll predrill a scrap piece of wood and see how well it holds in that (and if it cuts threads in the wood) before trying it in the gun once that's patched up. The right screw, though, has beautifully cut threads; for being over 100 years old it's in damn good condition, too. The spring for the trapdoor is looking rough as well (look at the one side that's completely eaten through!) but for now it works. And it better keep working because the screw holding it won't budge. Back to the two screws, I need to do a final pass with a cutoff disc to recut the slots due to excessive wear. I did enough to remove the screws but I want to even it out and get it deep enough to reliably use. I usually like my cheap ass $10 Harbor Freight rotary tool for this because it's so small, light, can easily be overpowered (stopped), and has an auto-shutoff that shuts the motor off for about 5 seconds if it detects that the tool gets jammed/tweaked and it pinches the tool. Makes delicate jobs like this a breeze. Unfortunately I have a full size Dremel and can't find the small HF one ATM so it's a lot more awkward. Luckily the speed goes down super low (and torque is decreased at those speeds) so it's at least somewhat controllable (unlike some of the older models that IIRC love to grab and run across parts making huge trails of scratches).
