Wat's Guns-N-Stuff Thread

[Chobham]

My sincere apologies, or appypollywollogies as the Droogies say. My mistake.


Area 51 would be a vastly superior choice for a multitude of reasons.

I have a better place, NTS just south of area 51 and the best part is the holes are already dug.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

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[Wat_Tyler]

I have a better place, NTS just south of area 51 and the best part is the holes are already dug.

Okay. I'm good with making our MT friend satisfied with our choice.

 

[AlexBailey]

It must be scary to y-all how there is technology that can locate gunshots in large areas in real time. Drones can already be used to hunt down illegal shooters.

Geeks are the new bad asses. Tech has come a long way thanks to the Ukrainian war.

Drones and mech armies will be filling the gaps caused by low recruitment numbers. Local police will be spending more and more money on tech rather than personnel, and it’s all going to be justified because of assholes with guns.


Those home arsenals aren’t going to be good for anything but sport and hunting before long.

Hackers are going to be a much bigger threat than snipers.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Hackers are going to be a much bigger threat than snipers.

They already are....least in my country.

 

[AlexBailey]

They already are....least in my country.

Fools think they can bring a gun to a drone fight.

The thing so many gun nuts seem to miss is that technology is surpassing them. If gun enthusiasts can’t help discourage the asshole gun owners more regulations and laws will be passed and more technology will be brought to bear against them.

A few rotten apples will spoil the barrels.

 

[coati]

Hackers are going to be a much bigger threat than snipers.

And, the judicial system will keep locking up the insurrectionists-of-fortune.

There are going to be a lot of formerly armed MAGAts in nursing homes soon. They can have daily discussion sessions to talk about what they could have done if Trump had not brought so much heat down on them. After each session they can retreat to the dining area to gum their lime Jello.

The ones who get busted and go to prison will find Jeezus, cry at parole hearings, write books about redemption, but continue to jack off to images of young naked women holding guns.

If only those girls had reciprocated their attention when they were in high school, they could have avoided the incel lifestyle. But, who the hell wants to hang out with a control freak?

 

[AlexBailey]

And, the judicial system will keep locking up the insurrectionists-of-fortune.

There are going to be a lot of formerly armed MAGAts in nursing homes soon. They can have daily discussion sessions to talk about what they could have done if Trump had not brought so much heat down on them. After each session they can retreat to the dining area to gum their lime Jello.

The ones who get busted and go to prison will find Jeezus, cry at parole hearings, write books about redemption, but continue to jack off to images of young naked women holding guns.

If only those girls had reciprocated their attention when they were in high school, they could have avoided the incel lifestyle. But, who the hell wants to hang out with a control freak?

They think they can hide behind doors with their guns and be safe against The Man, but heat imaging and armed drones can pick them off through walls after they refuse to come out with their hands in the air.

The harder they dig in and mouth off the more resources will be directed to routing them.

For some reason they think Trump will protect their rights, but who is the President who had uninformed law enforcement grabbing people off the streets during civil unrest? Trump 45. Who will do whatever the fuck he wants without fear of consequence or legality? Trump 47.

Once he does that he will set a new precedence for executive power that will circumvent constitutional authority.

They want to vote in their worst nightmare.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Some of this hard cast ammo seems to be quite nasty in application:

 

[wizzard426]

Some of this hard cast ammo seems to be quite nasty in application:

I've been playing around with machining and forging titanium. My advice? Set out to prove perpetual motion. You'll be more successful

 

[Chobham]

I've been playing around with machining and forging titanium. My advice? Set out to prove perpetual motion. You'll be more successful

*chuckle* Slow going with that stuff, isn't it?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[wizzard426]

*chuckle* Slow going with that stuff, isn't it?

I have tested the limits of man and machine. I have not tested titanium.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I'ma go up and test the limits of some sandpaper on a walnut stock.


I suspect that I'll find a balance.

 

[Chobham]

I have tested the limits of man and machine. I have not tested titanium.

We were working with an air cooled Argon Ion laser that had aluminum base plates that also held the mirrors. As the laser heated up the aluminum would change deminsionally and the mirrors would go out of alignment. We decided to go with titanium because of it's damn near zero coefficient of expansion. The tool and die guy, who is also my gunsmith, still curses me to this day over that.

I've always wondered how a titanium barrel would hold up?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The zero sounds like it wouldn't move. If you could get to that point.


The stock is coming along nicely. Should be able to polish it and stain it tomorrow. Not dark, but a little.

 

[Chobham]

Got a place you can test stain it?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

In the machined troughs. Yes, I stripped those, too.


I'm pretty good with colors, and I'm pretty sure on this one. It's just enough so the war wounds don't stand out as much.


Fucking thing is 82 years old.

 

[Chobham]

Old wood is still good wood.

I'm ordering some Ebony turning squares and dowels for the stock on the rifle I'm building up. The square will be used for an end cap on the fore stock and the dowels for faux cross bolt points on in the receiver area. Just some little cosmetic details.

 

[wizzard426]

My first mistake was trying this on a cheap chin lathe that had plastic gears.

Then, I just started trying to cut without other research (inserts, feeds, speeds)

The gears prevented any serious damage. They died quickly.

Now I'm getting a real lathe so I can make gears and stuff to fix the chin lathe

 

[Chobham]

My first mistake was trying this on a cheap chin lathe that had plastic gears.

Then, I just started trying to cut without other research (inserts, feeds, speeds)

The gears prevented any serious damage. They died quickly.

Now I'm getting a real lathe so I can make gears and stuff to fix the chin lathe

Cool.

What I remember about his working with Titanium is that the cutting speed was incredibly slow and he went through a LOT of cutting tools.

 

[Chobham]

This is where I got the idea for the faux cross bolt features.

Custom Built.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I'm always surprised (okay, no really) at how most people will chuck in the damned bit and then jerk the trigger to full speed to hole a piece of steel. And, it do't work so well. I was fiddling about with the batt'reh drill and noticed that it has 2 speeds, so to drill a hole, I put it on low, and it worked so much better. Then I even touch-triggered it slower still and it worked even better. Hell, I'm downright good at it now.

 

[wizzard426]

I'm always surprised (okay, no really) at how most people will chuck in the damned bit and then jerk the trigger to full speed to hole a piece of steel. And, it do't work so well. I was fiddling about with the batt'reh drill and noticed that it has 2 speeds, so to drill a hole, I put it on low, and it worked so much better. Then I even touch-triggered it slower still and it worked even better. Hell, I'm downright good at it now.

Back in the machine shop days the engineer guy told us about tool pressure and "shearing the material's" as opposed to chiseling. The idea being that the principal of fluid dynamics in that everything behaves like a liquid while under pressure.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Back in the machine shop days the engineer guy told us about tool pressure and "shearing the material's" as opposed to chiseling. The idea being that the principal of fluid dynamics in that everything behaves like a liquid while under pressure.

My woodworking is damned fine. Metal work is a learning process still.


I do get more practice with it these days, however.