Comments on: updates on the projects http://gunlab.net/797/ Adventures in gun building! Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:49:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Chuck http://gunlab.net/797/#comment-971 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:00:07 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=797#comment-971 That does help. I really need to find some close up pictures of the rear sight. Thanks

]]> By: john http://gunlab.net/797/#comment-963 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 06:44:11 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=797#comment-963 re the FG42 rear sight, have you realised that the internal range stepped cam is a separate machined tube held in by a rivet near the low range area. Hopes this make sense.

]]> By: Harry Connors http://gunlab.net/797/#comment-943 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:55:15 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=797#comment-943 Thanks for the update, I enjoyed reading every bit of it. I have the same problem in Tucson. Shop is about finished but waiting for prices of A/C to come down for the end of Summer sales. One can not work right in 105 degree (in the shop) temperatures. Harry

]]> By: Chuck http://gunlab.net/797/#comment-937 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:02:44 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=797#comment-937 It is actually very interesting to design and build a weapon from scratch. Your doing all the engineering, concepts, design, set up and machining. One heck of a learning process.

]]> By: Chuck http://gunlab.net/797/#comment-936 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:00:59 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=797#comment-936 There is no a/c in the machine shop or the fab shop. There is not even an evap cooler in the fab shop yet, working on it.
I have not dome much pressing work, due to the heat in the fab shop. I should be back in there to do pressings by the end of the month.
We have re-machined a net set of dies for the magazine and just waiting for time to test them.

]]> By: Christopher Brosnahan http://gunlab.net/797/#comment-934 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:40:46 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=797#comment-934 This is one of the most fascinating aspects of designing a part or an entire device (‘gerat’)….the process of not only designing the part/’gerat’ itself, but the processes for accomplishing that task…often a series of trials & errors – all of which consume time and labor…the time is gone for ever, but the labor can be an experience both good and bad (good if you learn something from the ‘bad’ of it)…building the ‘thing’ is impressive, but the unseen part (building the ‘infrastructure’ so to speak, enabling you not only to accomplish/finish making the ‘Thing’/’Gerat’ but the ability to re0plicate the finished and de-bugged product….this is an interesting look into the lives of the great inventors/innovators of the Industrial Revolution and of the industrial age…thank you for the running commentaries, Ian!!!

CB in FL

]]> By: don http://gunlab.net/797/#comment-930 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:09:18 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=797#comment-930 Hope you have AC in the shop. Impressive work….as usual.

How are the Japanese magazines coming?

]]> By: Robert http://gunlab.net/797/#comment-928 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:09:18 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=797#comment-928 Love the info and updates on this project. Keep’em coming.

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