What have you made?

[Cannonfodder]

This week I managed to make a complete balls up of the repair/upgrade on my KAC PDW. In no particular  order I managed to tear the new hop rubber when putting the hop unit back on the inner barrel, loose the hop nub (fortunately I found again later) and while disconnecting the wiring a bullet connector came off. I'll try again today and hopefully things will go better

[Cannonfodder]

5 hours ago, Cannonfodder said:

I'll try again today and hopefully things will go better

They didn't. I'm starting to think it'll be easier to just rip the whole gearbox out and replace it with one from an old cyma 513

[Anonymoose]

Somewhat productive day in the SkunkWorks.

 

Started off by modifying a silencer/tracer unit, wasn't so fond of the grooves in it and decided to copy the Specter one, but with 12 smaller flutes.

 

Before:

 

 

After turning the OD down, it was put in the rotary table and flutes were cut with an 8mm ball-nosed end mill.

 

 

Bit of lousy paint..

 

 

And now it looks so much better. Very happy with the result.

 

 

Next up was a silencer that i bought for my MP5K-PDW. It's some specific type that i didn't realise at the time, but that didn't matter. I made an insert that'd screw on to the threaded outer barrel, but go over the 3-lug QD and sit closer to the front sight block. Turned from 38mm ally, bored to clear the 3 lugs, threaded inside, with an external male thread to fit a tracer and hex flats milled too. It's secured to the outer body with a grub screw.

 

 

Finished + fitted:

 

[ButcherBill]

FFS M8, you're making us/ME look bad.

[Jez_Armstrong]

A KS-3 to go with my KS-1 🤷

[Anonymoose]

5 minutes ago, ButcherBill said:

FFS M8, you're making us/ME look bad.

 

I don't think i'll ever rival your collection. 😂

 

Another quick job, added a short rail to my MP5SD silencer to attach an X400 clone. The silencer has a small grub screw to index it so i can still keep zero when i have to remove the silencer.

 

 

Spare rail piece had a suitable radius cut into it to match the silencer:

 

 

Small section of the ribs were cut off the handguard to fit a remote switch, which is held on with 3M VHB tape.

 

[ButcherBill]

28 minutes ago, Anonymoose said:

I don't think i'll ever rival your collection.

Ah, but the closest I've gotten to 'making' something was ripping the guts out of a stanag to house the AR57 battery.

Edited 18 hours ago by ButcherBill

[Anonymoose]

3 minutes ago, ButcherBill said:

Ah, but the closest I've gotten to 'making' something was ripping the guts out of a stanag to house the AR57 battery.

 

Making things and machining is kinda part of my job though. 🙃