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What is it Saturday 5-9-15

Another hard one, but it is a gun part.

Cut away Tokarev TT-33

This weeks cut away in the Tokarev Model TT-33.

 

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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 […]

Updates for the last two weekends.

Last Sunday was a much easier day. It was a large amount of fixing things as well as shop work.

The A/C went out in the house so testing was conducted and it was found that the evaporator fan went out. Time was spent on removing it to get a replacement today. Then the bad […]

Making the 1930 Sauer firing pins

I went to do a little shooting on a few weapons in my collection that I have never fired only to find out that the firing pins were broken. In this case the pistol that I had taken out was a Sauer model 1930 32acp pistol. For some odd reason I happen to have three […]

Up dates to the shop

Life at the shop has changed a bit since our last shop up date. We now have a wire EDM as well as a sinker EDM. I priced out wire EDM work and for the cost of a few pieces I could buy an older unit. It was working on the shop floor prior to […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]