Does anyone make smooth, relatively featureless suppressors without a retarded naming convention these days? It's never been easier to manufacture and register NFA items and somehow it seems like no one is even trying to fill the retro niche. I do not want a "badass" rollmark. I do not want it ribbed for my pleasure. I do not want it to say "whisper pickle ass bandit dead air jonkler water trash panda" on my can. Any good reccs?
>>65095681I know of nothing decent that doesn't have at least some branding, and every suppressor is required to be engraved like all other NFA weapons so you'll never get perfectly smooth regardless. Suppressors shouldn't be on the NFA at all but until that happy day arrives I suspect most companies will go "well we have to slap our name on it anyway", and precisely because it's so easy to make stuff now and so hard to tell the internals companies want the external to have some differentiation.Your best bet is probably just to figure out a custom metal tube wrap of some kind.
>>65095700I'm fine with some engraving, really just after something that isnt obnoxious
>It's never been easier to manufacture and register NFA items So why don't you do it yourself OP?
>>65095741Lack of access to equipment mostly, but hey if no one else is
>>65095741>bro, just buy enough equipment to cost the same (or more) as a suppressor!>why don't you wanna do that!? you don't want to??? WHAT??? YOU'RE A FED!!!! YOU NEED TO DO WHAT I SAY OR YOU'RE A FED!!!!!!!!!i kid, but really thoughtools cost money, take up space, and need at least SOME knowledge of how to use them, and unless you actually have that availability in the first place, you basically asking someone to commit to a much bigger thing than just buying it outright
>>65095681>featureless suppressors without a retarded naming convention these daysBack in the day I did stuff for Gem-tech (the original Gem-tech, with Doc, Kel, and Greg)>not after they got passed around like a private equity party favorGem-tech had a request from .gov to make a batch of "sterile" suppressors. No marks, no numbers, nothing.>had to write to NFA branch at F-troop (ATF)>tell them reason>give them contact inside .gov>F-troop approves, sends you letter>letter to be attached to A&D bookSuppressors ended up getting shipped to a Bureau of Indian Affairs warehouse in Maryland.>pretty sure that wasn't the end user
>>65095771Would not even one of these harbor freight chinkshit lathes for $800 be able to turn out good enough baffles?
>>65095789forgot image
>>65095789not really, they're a hell of a tool to make work right in the first placeyou'd be better off using pipes cut to fit washers between them crammed in a maglight body instead
>>65095681>featurelessyou will DIE in a ditch when the war starts. DIE.
>>65095681Suppressors follow the same naming scheme of 90s RVs
>>65095774Come on, anon. We need a time period and some details about the cans so that we can speculate about where they ended up. You can't leave us hanging like that.
>>65095830>maglight bodyAnd what part do you drill and tap? There's not enough material in the end cap for that. You need a lathe to even turn a mag light into a suppressor.
How simple do you need? GSL makes pretty simple cans. They’re also really nice cans
>>65095789Expect to completely disassemble, clean, and lubricate those machines before they'll run well, but yes, you can hit .001 tolerances if you know what you're doing.
>>65095968>drill & tapyou don't, you just bolt it onto a mount>lathe neededno, verifiably so
>>65095969>GSLThat's Greg Latka's (GSL is Gregory S. Latka) company out of Michigan.He was half of Gem-tech along with Phil "Doc" Dater.Greg has been in the 07/type II NFA game for decades.
>>65095681Yes they're called "form 1 suppressors" and you make them yourself.https://rocketffl.com/atf-form-1/You'll need to find your own precursor materials that you'd turn into a suppressor but I have faith in you.
>>65095681I have a rugged Obsidian and Oculus and they’re both high quality and cringe-free.I agree that the heckin’ chungus naming conventions are fucking annoying
>>65095969>>65095992The GSL cans are purty and greg is a good guy, they're middle of the pack on performance though while up there in price. I didn't care enough about the look to justify it over a Cat but none of them have THAT much difference so honestly wouldn't hold it against anyone for really wanting that classic style.
>>65095681>>65096111>these anons don't want the tactical advantage of cat anus on their guns when shtfngmi
>>65095977There's no "mount" that either matches the end cap threads on a maglight.
LPM
>>65096119>greg is a good guyGood guy Greg confirmed
>>65096294there is when you drill some holes on the sides & bolt it onto a hub, you dumb fucking retardwhy the fuck did you think i said "bolt"? you think that means "thread"? you apeoidic yakubian reject?
>>65096336That would pop off the first time you shot it.
>>65096364how sure are you of that?
>>65095969>>65096297Great recommendations, thanks
SOS out of Arizona. It's just a chunk of shit that works and is robust.
>>65095789Sure, if you have a week to spare to get that shitty thing running.But before we put in all that effort, explain to us what kind of supressor you would actually build at home and what it's insides look like.Because I'm pretty sure the lathe is not getting us all the way there.
>>65095681Allen Engineering makes the AEM5 in 5,56 and 7,62 while Otter Creek makes the OCM5 in 5,56. I'm quite fond of mine.
>buy whatever suppressor you want>buy some thin walled aluminum or stainless tubing of the correct ID>cut to fitWould this not work? You'd have to make it removable I'm sure, so as not to conceal the serial permanently
>>65101578>Would this not work?Yes that would work fine.>You'd have to make it removable I'm sure, so as not to conceal the serial permanentlyYou'd almost certainly want to do so anyway in case you ever had a baffle strike or something and needed warranty repair. Another approach would be to do a sort of shroud thing, attach your tube to a bit of pick rail and some extension and then just have it hang off the front of your handguard encapsulating the can. There are some companies making products like that, basically as an alternative to the traditional suppressor wrap. Usually they're carbon fiber or poly in the case though with venting on the bottom, part of the point is to prevent heat mirage once the can gets hot while still giving it better cooling then a wrap would.But if OP wants the look of an "exposed, featureless" can for cool/nostalgia reasons nothing wrong with that. He's probably better just getting a can like that, but what you describe would work if he couldn't find one with other features he wanted.
