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Today after making parts for the Ar-180B was completed I started back trying to get the Japax wire edm to work. When 9pm came about I finally stopped. A great deal was accomplished today. Starting with getting the upper head to move to being able to write, post and run a basic program. This post […] This post is about making the pivot button for the bolt hold open device for the AR-180B. With no engineered drawings to work from the first item of business to take care of was making a drawing of the part with all the dimensions. To do this we used micrometers, feeler gauges and an […] Today is a shop day as I am trying to get the pivot buttons completed for the AR-180B and finish the third op on the selector knob. I will post a video later today on time in the shop. I also chatted with Todd at McWilliams company and he was a great help on the […] This is the video of the actual machining of the AR-180B shaft. This is the first op in making this part. From here it will nest go to the mill to have the various flats, slots and holes drilled. Now on to the first op. With the first op complete the next step is […] Saturday I spent most of the day finishing up the second op on the selector lever. Here is a run down of that operation. Starting with the finished op one part. A special set of aluminum jaws were machined to hold the selector levers. With the jaws finished and the parts installed this is […] We were down to see our friend Rick at http://ar180s.com/ a while back and over the last few weeks during conversation he was interested in if we could make a few AR-180B parts. Why not that’s what we do. So while we are waiting for ATFE approval on the VG1-5 and the machines are kind […]
This is my first water cooled spot welder in the shop. We have used it with good success in the projects that we do here at Gun Lab. However, we needed to make a few modifications to it to allow use to use it more efficiently.
We removed the old lower bar and […] I know that I am going to get a little flack about this post and someone will write how there’s or someone who does reloading make great stuff even better then the major manufactures. First is a short video from SAAMI about testing commercial ammunition. http://www.saami.org/videos/sporting_ammunition_and_the_firefighter.cfm Now on to the rest of the story. A […] I went to an auction a few weeks back and bought a series 30 spot welded that the company had taken off the line. I have not had much time to play with it so this weekend it was on the project list. I wired the shop for the spot welder a few […] |
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