My New Shroud
Hi All, I am new here and a new Condor owner. I bought mine in .22 about 3 weeks ago.
Anyway living on 2 acres I paid no attention to the warnings about how loud a condor is. After about 6 shots on full power I had both sets of neighbors attention! I have a .22lr that is quieter.
Anywhoo I am an engineer and have a small machine shop.
I bought an LDC from a guy on the yellow and while it works OK I am not satisfied. I do not have any suitable Al stock to work with at the moment so while I am waiting for my shipment to come in I decided to make one from something I had on hand. I machined the baffles, retainers, and vented bushings from 1/2″ PVC sheet on my CNC mill and mounted the whole mess into a 1.5″ nominal ID PVC pipe. I added a few sections of Armaflex closed cell foam inbetween the last two baffles. It has about a 1″ D hole in it and is fairly strong stuff. The baffles where solvent welded into place with a needle applicator.
It mounts on my Condor like a charm and all I hear when I fire it is the hammer clang.
It should tide me over until I get my shipment of Al stock.
Let me know if anyone wants the .dwg or .dxf of this thing.
Ill prime it and paint it black tomorrow.
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I used a nasty industrial solvent thats used to weld vynil sheets together (like havy duty life rafts ets). I dont know what it is chemically although I suspect its close to MEK. I experiemented with heavy duty PVC cement and it works fine, its not really a cement as is does indeed weld the two surfaces together. I updated the DXF file so that it shows dimensions in a jpeg.
When assembling I just first installed the back bushing, then used a large square dowel the tap the other parts home, measuring depth from the front.
I would like to do this shroud but i don’t understand how the are welded. How can i do it? with wich components?
Can you put more details or pics about your mods?
Sorry for my english 😳
I’ very interested at your shroud. Thank you very much
Just wanted you guys to know I had some questions for TexasB and he was more than happy to send me prints and pictures of what he had made and some mod he made. Pm him and he ask me if I wanted him to cut some baffles out for me on his CNC rounter ofcourse I said yes great guy!!
I’ve done a pretty extensive UK search and I can’t find any pipes that nest, so looks like welding would be the only option. Shame, because with nested pipes I could knock out a silencer within half an hour. There’s not even an option to use slightly oversize pipes (which could be turned down), all the pipes I’ve been able to find go the other way (smaller ODs are way loose in the bigger ODs).
Oh they arent glued, they are welded. The External pipe will rupture before those bonds let go.
The shroud weighs 12.4 ounces and is 14″ long.
I shot my condor all day today and the only sound you hear is the hammer ping. Thats it. The gun doesnt sound like its working at all! I will post a vid of how quiet this thing is. Guess I dont need to buy a shroud anymore 🙂 🙂 🙂
That’s a nice job. My only reservation would be the baffles being glued, I suspect they’ll eventually fail. A far more secure method would be a number of smaller tubes within the main tube, acting as bulk-heads for the baffles. 🙂
Nice work congrats ! 🙂
After a bit of tinkering I found these shrouds like alot of volume. I shit canned the foam inserts to open up the chambers a bit more and added two more baffles. I also designed a ported frame insert/back bushing. After some simple finsihing work on the lathe I sprayed a coat of flat back paint ment for vinyl products. I cured it in a oven at 110* over night.
The shroud weighs 12.4 ounces and is 14″ long.
I shot my condor all day today and the only sound you hear is the hammer ping. Thats it. The gun doesnt sound like its working at all! I will post a vid of how quiet this thing is. Guess I dont need to buy a shroud anymore 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you very much 😉 😉 😉
I exported the .dwg into a jpeg and a 04 .dxf as I dont think 09’s are backwards compatiable with older forms of autocad.
I plan on making basically the same thing out of aluminum, except it will be changed a bit to allow for disassembly and dressier with a nice anodized finish.
Here is the .dxf file, the download should be in the lower right hand corner. I know this site is lame but my website server is down right now. 🙁
http://www.2shared.com/file/7728672/e9fcc1c7/Condor_Silencer.html
Very good job 😉 Please, do you have more photos?
I’m interested at the .dwg or .dxf drawings. Can you send me it? jkaleido@gmail.com
Thank you very much from Spain
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You guys be careful of this guy told me he would make me some baffles with his CNC outfit he did quit a bit more for me but it was a nice surprise better put him on the good guy list what was that the good the bad and the fugly I think knife called it LOL thanks Tex looks fantasitc and works even better Eddie. I owe you something maybe a surprise back to ya!