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My birthday day off.

For my Birthday my wife took me to the Samurai armor display at the Phoenix Art Museum. It was a great way to spend the day. The detail of the work that they accomplished is nothing short of amazing.

As long as you did not use a flash taking pictures was not a problem. There was not a great deal of weapons, but the armor is something to admire.

This will be a multi part post as I took a number of pictures.

Here are a few of the full sets of armor that was on display.

It was a fun afternoon with my wife looking at some very interesting Japanese armor.

Webley 22lr pistol

A webley Mk 4 in 22lr. I am not sure the date that these were made,but it would have to be post WW2.

Looking at the pictures you can see that the pistol grip is shortened and the cylinder is modified.

The right side view.

A left side view.

Some of the markings on the pistol.

A nice addition to any Webley collection.

22 belt fed fun gun

Gordie K. ,a friend of gun lab, sent some pictures of a little belt fed fun gun he has made. The upper receiver is a Lakeside machine razor back upper.

The butt stock is a sterling sub-machine gun which folds up and latches just like the original.

A pistol grip from a MG-42. The lower receiver machined block of steel.

A barrel jacket from a PPSh 41

The action is like a miniature 1919.

This just looks like fun.

Sunday answer

Thanks to 7_92x57 he has posted an add from the old Parker-Hall company.

A couple of views of it on the rifle.

A side view of it mounted

As seen from the rear of the rifle

Many thanks to John and Dave for this accessory.

Sorry for the delay in putting up this post.

Memorial day

Lest we not forget the reason of this holiday.

This video was made by Randy Wright.

More on the CNC router

The making of the new Z axis.

Starting with the solid models. You can see the entire assembly. Front and

This solid model shows the changes that we have made.

Pins to maintain alignment, lower bearing for the screw support.

The new upper housing

Now on to the actual nuts and bolts.

The entire assembly was taken apart.

The new lower support plate with the lower bearing installed.

Holes for pins as well as the bolts holding it together.

A close up of the positioning pins.

A quick video tour of the cnc router z axis.

Weekend update 5-21-17

I spent most of the weekend in the fab shop trying to clean up some small projects. With the temperature at the century mark there was no fun working in the sun.

I obtain another bead blaster from a friend.

This required me to run a new air system over to it.

I then started on adding new plugs for my work table and metal table.

Then it was time to mount a vise at the work table.

I started changing out the fittings on the hydraulic power pack.

This is to allow me to change the hoses to run either the fluting press or the hot forging press with the same unit. Eventually I hope to have a separate power pack for the forging press.I also welded on hose supports.