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Weekend update 4-6-15

To be honest I did not get that much accomplished this last weekend. Saturday I worked on the air system in the fab shop, but still have a little more to do. I needed some fittings so on to another project.

I went to start on the backhoe again and realized that I still needed four more bushings. Two were broken and two more were to short for the application there to be used for.

I then started putting up lights in the wood shop. Then it was back to stand by on that project as I only has two sets. I needed more lights.

Went to the photograph area and started taking some more pictures after I finished my stand. That turned out okay, but the stand needs a little tweaking.

Rounded out Saturday with a friend from France stopping by to spend a few days.

Sunday morning up early to go to the range for a day of test firing 22 rifles and making video’s of them. Those will be posted over the course of the next couple of weeks. We came home so I could clean guns then my wife and friend went shopping for clothes as he packs light when he travels. I started editing all the video’s that I took. I am not a big fan of being in front of the camera by the way. Just another old fat white guy shooting.

Not much else to add.

Sunday Answer 4-5-15

The part shown on Saturday.

Belongs to the AR-180. It is the barrel extension for the 18/180 rifle.

A close up of it in the receiver.

The basic rifle.

close up of the receiver.

Other side of the rifle.

Another close up.

A quick video of me taking the day off and going shooting the AR-180’s in my collection.

Interesting Post at Weapons Man

Weapons Man did a interesting post about reverse engineering weapons. If you have an opportunity you should take a look at it. Here is the link.

http://weaponsman.com/?p=21799

What is it Saturday 4-4-15

from bolt end

from barrel end

Archive Photo 3-31-15

Years ago when I was a young lad I had the hots for a tank,I later owned a Ferret scout car, but I wanted a tracked vehicle. That is when I knew little to nothing about them and the work involved in maintaining them. I must also mention that I am 6’4″ and could not fit in any tank that interested me. This set of pictures is from a private tank museum that is no longer in business, but I really liked this cute little pre-WW2 tank. I have no idea where the tank has gone to so if someone knows please let me know. I would like to take photo’s of the inside one day. I must also mention that I am not a vehicle guy but a gun guy. This means that I want the tank as an accessory for my guns and not the other way around. I use to own a m-2 50 cal machine gun, a Lathe 20 mm cannon and a number of 1919’s so I thought this would be the perfect toy to carry them around in at a shoot.

Here are the pictures of this cute toy.

A frontal view.

Close up of the main armament in this model

right side angle view.

Here are a few pictures from an old magazine.

A crew of 4.

a great cut away of the tank

The armament it carried

It used a 235h.p. radial airplane type engine with a max speed of 35mph on the road and 5mph in the open country.

views of VG1-5 rifles and slings

I have assembled a number of pictures of various VG1-5 rifles and there slings from the internet and ones that I have taken. These are the internet pictures.

A closer look at the sling.

This is the only picture that I have ever seen with a rear swivel on the sling.

Here is a close up of the sling and swivel.

Another close up of this sling.

These are the rifles that I have photographed.

A couple of close ups.

All the slings look to be a course weave material but of different color lots. Using this as my bases I think I am going with the first version of sling material. I am also thinking about using the swivel as a rear attachment for the sling.

Of the three sling material available I happen to think the first one is closest.

Once again number 1.

Weekend up date 3-30-15

Well the weekend is over and the library is dome. We went through all the boxes, except gun magazines, and have found a place for most of them. What a long day. Here are the pictures of the results.

Sheet metal and Naval manuals.

Engineering

welding and machining

foundry, blacksmithing and knife making.

wood working and building

Magazine storage

Now to start locating all the other books and putting them up. At least the wood shop is back.

Still need to finish the wall. Next weekend.

Sunday Answer 3-28-15

The bolt and bolt carrier shown in Saturdays post.

Comes from an 8×57 Dror machine gun. Here are a few picture of this weapon.

One of the unique items about this LMG is the open bolt operation while on full auto and the closed bolt operation while on semi- auto.

Here is a close up look of this fire control system.

You can see the full auto sear engaged in the bolt.

Up date on the library

My last post on my library and the mess that it was in hit a few off note cords around here. No access to a great deal of my reference library and the mess all the rooms were in really pushed my buttons. Then boom I get a call from a general contractor ,that I did some work for, and he wants to get rid of some moving book cases. These are the type you see in large library’s only a 4 compartment set. He wants to know if I want them or not, of course we all know the answer to that. So I picked them up this morning and the days work was set. This is what the little room looked like before we re-worked it.

Now after we started the whole new library thing.

A close up of one of the book shelves.

The new moving book cases look like this.

This was not accomplished with out making a mess everywhere. The books had to go somewhere while we moved.

All the garbage in the room had to come out as well.

A little more work was done on the wall of the wood shop as well. It was sanded and a final coat of mud put down. One more sanding and then I will paint it.

Saturdays over, but tomorrow is another fun filled day.

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