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Most of last weekend we have chatted about. The time spent messing about with the CNC router and the wire edm has been covered. This was the rest of the weekend. I was able to get the vibrating tumbler up and running. Load after load was run through. With the stones still sharp and new […] This last weekend I spent more time with the cnc router and there are a few things that need to be corrected. Here is a video of it in operation to start with. The first problem is the vibration due to the poor design of the base that the router sets on. This is […] Today we are going to write a basic program for the Japax wire EDM and run that program on the machine. This will be a dry run only to verify that the machine can perform the program as written. To give everyone a little back ground this machine uses what is call G-code to perform […] No posts for the last couple of days. Sorry about that but with the temperature hovering around 112 and working outside from 5:30 am until 7 or 8pm I am just out of steam. Here are the updates though. The bending and stamping die for the AR-180B bolt hold open device in just about complete […] In a previous post comments Alex asked about the spring that the bolt hold open device uses. He wanted to know if we were going to make them. The answer is yes and here are a few pictures of them. The spring on the right is an original while the one on the left is […] We have finally finished machining the last part for the AR-180B safety. This is the master cam video showing the steps that were performed to complete this task. With this last installment we have now completed machining the safety for the AR-180B. This picture shows all the steps that we took to make the […] Short post for today, to much work yesterday and to little sleep. We finally received in the laser cur blanks for the bolt hold open lever. It looks good. We will need to finish machining it and then make a press tool to bend it properly. This post will conclude the machining part of the AR-180B pivot pin for the bolt hold open. We have finally completed the machining portion of this project for this part. Here are the pictures. This is the process from start to finish. Our copy compared to the original. I will start parkerizing this next week […] |
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