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MP-44 repair sections

Today’s post is from a friend of the site that wanted a semi-auto MP-44 and did not want to deal with the capital out lay necessary to buy one of the few that came in. His answer to the problem was to make a repair section and then put in the necessary parts and changes […]

November 25th, 2014 | Category: Die making, home made guns, MP-44, Parts, Parts fabrication, Sheet metal pressings, stamping dies, STG-44, Uncategorized | One comment

Weekend Update 11-24

Well as usual it has been a busy weekend around Gun Lab. More parts have been made for the VG1-5, coming soon in a post. The big project was the water system. The pressure pump took a crap. It just turn the pump room into a swamp and need to be fixed in a bad […]

November 24th, 2014 | Category: Die making, engineering design, Fab shop, flutting machine, Gun Lab, Gun rack, hot forging press, machining, shop tools, Uncategorized, weekend update, wood shop | 4 comments

Sunday Answer 11-23

As everyone guessed and even sent me an address for their web page it is an auto indexing tool to stamp sequential serial numbers. Such as is on the AR-18 or Bushmaster weapons.

example shown here.

 

November 23rd, 2014 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Part One of the Bushmaster Pistol

In this video I had the opportunity to chat with John D about his collection of Bushmaster pistols. This is part one of the multi part review of this interesting weapon.

Here are a few still pictures of this interesting first model sheet metal stamped upper pistol.

Close up of parts of […]

November 21st, 2014 | Category: Bushmaster pistol, engineering design, Gun Lab, Historic weapons, interview with John D, Sheet metal pressings, Uncategorized, Video Friday, Weapons Design | 4 comments

AR-180 part 3

In this write up we are going to look at the smaller parts and how they were made. The majority of the AR18/180 was a stamped weapon with minimal machined components. These are the stamped parts we are going to look at today.

 

The first part that we are going to look at is […]

November 19th, 2014 | Category: AR=180, Die making, engineering design, Parts, Parts fabrication, Sheet metal pressings, stamping dies, Uncategorized | 3 comments

Making the Gardner gun Part 1

I enjoy making things, specifically guns and any thing associated with making guns. I also enjoy chatting with people who make guns or any thing dealing with that. I also love mechanical machine guns. That leads us to today’s topic.

A friend of mine really wanted a miniature Gardner gun and with none available took […]

November 18th, 2014 | Category: CNC machining, Gardner gun, Historic weapons, machining, metal casting, miniture guns, Parts, Parts fabrication, pattern making, solid modeling, Uncategorized, Weapons Design, wood working | 18 comments

Sunday answer 11-16

This post will be a little late. I have to finish the stock screw bushings today and will photograph the answer a little latter. Sorry

November 16th, 2014 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Pedersen Device manual

The illusive Pedersen device.

Here are a few pictures of the rifle and device.

 

As promised here is the manual for the Pedersen device.

Pedersen Device manual

 

The most interesting part of the manual are the pictures showing the components. This is actually a complex part.

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November 13th, 2014 | Category: Book review, Historic weapons, Pedersen device, Uncategorized | 6 comments

Weekend update 11-10

It was a productive weekend as weekends go. The holes were drill into the side or the forging press I-beam to support the fluting machine. Here are a few pictures and a quick video of the process.

Moving the back plate over was no big deal, once in the fab shop it was loaded on […]

November 10th, 2014 | Category: Fab shop, flutting machine, Gun Lab, hot forging press, machining, Uncategorized, VG1-5, weekend update, wood shop, wood working | 2 comments

What is it Saturday 11-8

Another interesting part.

November 8th, 2014 | Category: Parts, Uncategorized, What is it Saturday | 3 comments
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