Comments on: FG-42 first model rear sight http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/ Adventures in gun building! Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:49:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Mac http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1370 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:30:18 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1370 And I’ve never looked back! Solid works beats BobCad hands down in every respect.

]]> By: Chuck http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1205 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 02:46:20 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1205 I have a manual vertical mill. a manual horizontal mill and a manual lathe.

]]> By: Alphawolf45 http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1199 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:14:56 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1199 Don’t think it was I that was planning trip to Phoenix…..

I am not trying to earn any real serious money from my 4400 sq. ft hobby workshop.. I am successfully earning nearly nothing from my home workshop. Still I enjoy occasionally getting new toys for the shop.. My Plasma burner died last week, Got a new plasma torch coming by FedEx tomorrow.. I manage to add another toy or two to the shop every year- not going to pop for expensive software unless something changes and I cant avoid it. BobCad is substantially better than what I have been using for years.. Certainly there is always something better..

You didn’t answer- You still have manual Mill and lathes or just the cnc machines? I will never give up my manual machines.

]]> By: Chuck http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1184 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:43:09 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1184 I know bob cad is cheap but if you ever have the opportunity I would get Solid works. I have a friend that had bob cad,as did I, but when I showed him how easy and fast solid works is compared to bob cad he converted that day.What cam program are you using. We use master cam for the machining centers and the lathe, however for the cnc mills I use del cam. Great program, easy to use and even I can write the post processor for my mills.
I thought you were thinking about a trip to Phoenix?

]]> By: Alphawolf45 http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1182 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:41:00 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1182 You have manual machines as well or just cnc?

I am just now learning to draw solids and don’t have the hang of it yet.(Friend gave me his copy of BobCad) Yesterday another friend come over with 8 roller guides from a complex custom built commercial wood working machine ..We sat there and I quickly drew the new contours he wanted in 2-D AutoCAD and today I’ll cut them with my old cnc mill. I’ve had cncs since 2004 but there is plenty I havent learned yet.. I never took any classes. Learn a lot by observing others……Yeah and I am ’bout due a newer cnc milling machine..

]]> By: Chuck http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1181 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:04:18 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1181 It is funny that you bring up manual machines. When I started machining about 40 years ago it was all manual machining. Rotary tables on milling machines to cut a radius, sharpers, horizontal milling machines and the such. Then in 2004 I was chatting with a friend and was telling him how excited I was for getting some 1″ plexiglass for nothing and he could not understand why I would want something like that. I explained that I use it to make prototypes with so I could study fit and operation. His next comment was that I still had a drafting table. He was correct. He talked me into solid works, which was a real battle as computers are not my friend. So back to school for me. I took 3 classes in solid works. While at the school I noticed there machine shop and would go in there every chance I got. I decided that I need to see what a cnc machine could do and how hard it would be to do it. So I tool a basic g code writing class. The final project was to draw the ace of spades 3 times making each one progressive larger then the last, write the program and then machine it in aluminum. At that time it took me a day to draw it up, an hour to hand write the program and 10 minutes to set up and touch off the tools. Total machine time to make it with high speed machining. 5 minutes. That was all, just 5 minutes. I looked at that part and thought of how many set ups that I would be require to have if I manually machined it and how long it would take me to do it and I was sold on cnc machining. Now two machining centers,2 cnc milling machine and a cnc lathe later and I still feel the same way.

]]> By: Alphawolf45 http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1179 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 12:57:05 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1179 Slick, purty…I could make one of those on my manual machines in ’bout 2 days time if I didn’t mess up and have to start over too many times..Hehhhehehh Fun to watch a real professional at work.

]]> By: Chuck http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1165 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 05:26:22 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1165 You are not kidding about all the parts on a FG-42. Some where in that gun is a clock. I know it but have just not found it yet.

]]> By: Chuck http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1164 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 05:24:49 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1164 If we were making 3000 or 30000 the cost would be a great deal less. I just don’t think that there is a need for any more then 300.

]]> By: Pete F. http://gunlab.net/fg-42-first-model-rear-sight/#comment-1156 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:32:38 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=846#comment-1156 YEP! And take that times a hundred several times over for all the other parts of a FG42.
Pete

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