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VG1-5 magazine release button.

In this post we are going to show you how the magazine release button is made. We start with a laser cut washer.

Okay over 100 laser cut washers.

Then run them through the pressing tool that forms them to the shape we need.

After this step they look like this.

One hundred later […]

Weekend update 1-5-15

Well the new year is here and the holidays are over. It is time to get back into the routine of life. This last week was just that but a little longer. The first on the list was the honeydo’s project. My wife wanted a new kitchen faucet for Christmas ,seeing how the old one […]

Making the miniture Gardner Gun “The Receiver”

In this post we will start with the making of a miniature Gardner Gun. The very first step that Joe did was to find someone with a Gardner Gun that would allow him to study and measure it. That was no easy task but one that he prevailed at. Joe spent a number of months […]

Christmas Gifts

This one that my son received. It is such a useful item that I just had to post it.

Not only is it a fork for Bar-B-Qing but now you can do it at night.

Be sure to check out the warning on the box.

To aide in the bar-b0q experience there is also a […]

Merry Christmas

Weekend Update 12-22

Last week was a really long week, most days leaving the house between 5:30 and 6:30am and not getting home until between 7 to 9 pm at night. Just shot. Saturday I went back to a guys shop that was selling some equipment off. I spent 3 hours or so there looking through boxes that […]

Sunday Answer 12-21

These are the factory set of head space gauges for the AR-10 rifle from Holland.

 

The set with some of the gauges removed

The markings on the chamber gauge as marked on the block as well.

Just a couple of pictures to show the rifle.

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What is it Saturday 12-20

Friday post

No post today, sorry. Got home at 9pm and left at 6:30. No time tomorrow is a new day Friday post

M-1 Garand receiver

In keeping with the M-1 Garand posts here and at The firearms Blog, http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/12/16/making-m1-garand/. I though I would provide a couple of pictures of what the receiver looked like after it was forged and with the flashing cut off.

First the side views.

Now the top view.

Finally the bottom view. The amount of […]