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Beretta AR-70 magazine modifications

A couple of years ago I bought a Beretta AR-70 rifle for the reference collection. This was before the availability of replacement magazines for the rifle. Because of the total lack of spare magazines in this country people came up with ingenious ideas to modify existing magazines to allow them to shoot there rifles. I […]

May 31st, 2016 | Category: AR-70, magazine design, Magazine manfacturing | 12 comments

Older gun making video part2

Today’s post is another of the video’s out there dealing with making the weapons of war in the U.S. This video deals with making the BAR and it.s magazine.

What is interesting is the pressing dies and method used to make the BAR magazine. I find the fixture design to answer question that I […]

August 28th, 2015 | Category: Historic weapons, machining, magazine design, Magazine manfacturing, Parts fabrication, video | 3 comments

Video on making the FAL by DSA

 

 

There are some real good segments in the video. One showing the stamping of magazines.

May 15th, 2015 | Category: CNC machining, FN-FAL, Gun Lab, Historic weapons, Magazine manfacturing, Parts fabrication, video, Video Friday | 3 comments

Gun Lab update

Not a big post for today, just an update on the projects we are working on.

First and most important is the VG1-5 project. I received a call this afternoon late that the firing pins can be picked up from the heat treating firm. With this last piece we can send the second rifle to […]

May 13th, 2015 | Category: 7.92x33 kurtz, AR-16, Bushmaster pistol, equipment, firing pins, Gun Lab, Historic weapons, Japanese type 99 magazine, machining, magazine design, Magazine manfacturing, MP-44, Parts fabrication, solid modeling, stamping dies, VG1-5 | 10 comments

Magazine manufacturing

In this post we are going to look at making a magazine. In this case a 22lr pistol magazine. This magazine was stamped out on a progressive stamping die. In a machine that would look like this.

Not for the home shop.

So lets take a look at the steps that would be required to […]

May 5th, 2015 | Category: Gun Lab, magazine design, Magazine manfacturing, Parts, Parts fabrication, Sheet metal pressings, stamping dies, Uncategorized | 7 comments