For my next trick…
…I am mainly making a silencer, of the type to which you chappies usually refer to as a ‘shroud’. I got hold of some seven 1/8ths ID tube with 3mm walls, which I’ve turned down to about 1.5mm thick, 18″ long. I got to make extensive use of the follow-steady, which was…interesting. 😆 Tomorrow I’ll finish all the internals and try it out. The rifle is still shooting good numbers, I think the valve just needed to settle in.
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Any pics???
Silencer’s done, I’m very happy with the level of noise it doesn’t produce. I don’t think there’s anything left to make now. Where’s the knitting-machine catalogue…
What kind of lathe do you have Lang?
A chinese one. 👿 😥 😆 It’s made for Chester, a UK company who claim it’s their own design and facility over there making all their stuff exclusively for them. I guess, for the money (£1300 when I bought it), it’s not bad actually. Niggly little things but it does what it’s supposed to do.
http://www.chestermachinetools.com/store/db11_variable_speed_lathe.htm
One with a rubber band for a motor and a tool holder made from reinforced jelly… 😛
(did a nice job or two for me though….)
Chinese Tossers lol!
What kind of lathe do you have Lang?
Metal Head had no problem deciphering it though.
I had to spend an hour modifying it before it was useable. Fucking chinese POS, those useless tossers have not a shred of pride in any of the work they’ve produced that I’ve seen.
I surely wasn’t questioning whether Lang was using proper terminology or not…If you’re going to have me understand anything about lathe work you have to be able to speak “Ignorantese”…I am lost when it comes to lathe lingo….
Any road up, everything is done minus the baffles. I have a .27 hole through the end-cap and with two test-shots I see no clipping (and the cap didn’t move so much as a fraction of a mm, and it’s only force-fitted). It silences quite nicely even without any baffles, so I think once they’re fitted it’ll be a goer. 😀
The grooves in which the brass riders move were jamming them up, so I milled them a tad, and I re-profiled the contact edges on the brass to be round and polished (turned them from gouging squealing surface-wreckers into smooth and quiet little beauties 😆 ).
Metal Head had no problem deciphering it though.
I had to spend an hour modifying it before it was useable. Fucking chinese POS, those useless tossers have not a shred of pride in any of the work they’ve produced that I’ve seen.
what modifications were required?
That was perfectly correct use of the language, but apparently not of the accepted terminology. 😛
Metal Head had no problem deciphering it though.
I had to spend an hour modifying it before it was useable. Fucking chinese POS, those useless tossers have not a shred of pride in any of the work they’ve produced that I’ve seen.
Good to hear Lang…..BTW..What is a follow steady?
Lang is messing with the English language is all.
We have follow rests and steady rests. Guess he was using the follow rest:):)
ahhhh! thx Metal Head….
It’s a piece that you bolt onto your lathe that supports the opposite side of the work that the toolbit is cutting. It help keep long thin sections like a barrel for example from flexing away from your cutter.
Good to hear Lang…..BTW..What is a follow steady?
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I should have taken some while it was all in bits but I couldn’t be arsed. I’ve just got through camo-taping it, I’ll get a pic at some point.