In previous post we showed the process of machining out a MP-44 trunnion. To test that our trunnions are correct Pete, a friend of gun lab and owner of the trunnions, has started a project of rebuilding a badly torched cut receiver.
It must be stated up front that Pete is licensed to manufacture weapons up to and including machine guns. This rifle however is being made as a semi auto only and not a machine gun.
This article is a number of posts as the work required to rebuild this rifle is extensive. You can see from the Photo’s just how badly it was destroyed.
By most peoples standard this would be just junk.
However, to a master metal man this is just a challenge.
A great deal of fitting and fixturing is required to assemble this receiver.
A fixture is made for everything
In the next installment we will discuss making the new back piece.
Very interesting. I’ll be watching…
This series of posts is very interesting. The quality of the work that Pete does is amazing.