GunLab (KnownHost) » Vulcan V15 rifle https://gunlab.net Adventures in gun building! Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:06:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 Updating the Vulcan V18 https://gunlab.net/updating-the-vulcan-v18/ https://gunlab.net/updating-the-vulcan-v18/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:00:38 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=2319 I just received an e-mail from a friend in southern Arizona concerning the Vulcan V18. You have seen my write up in a past post and Ian’s post on the Vulcan V18 so you know what we this of this piece of cr@p. Really it is truly junk. Well the good news is that it [...]]]> I just received an e-mail from a friend in southern Arizona concerning the Vulcan V18. You have seen my write up in a past post and Ian’s post on the Vulcan V18 so you know what we this of this piece of cr@p. Really it is truly junk. Well the good news is that it is saveable. Rick at http://ar180s.com has managed to save it. Of course he had to go through the entire gun and fix it. In addition he changed out the lower receiver and added a new stock, but he made it work. That’s more then can be said about Vulcan arms. You really need to see his write up here: http://ar180s.com/?p=189#comment-11

I like his fix so much that I am going to do the same thing with mine. Just think finally a V18 that works. Read his write up. It’s very good.

This is the original version.

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DSC_3514csand a close up of it.

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and this is his over haul of the rifle.

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V18-10sThis looks like a fun and reliable rifle. Check out his post. It is worth your time

]]> https://gunlab.net/updating-the-vulcan-v18/feed/ 3 AR-180 part 2 https://gunlab.net/ar-180-part-2/ https://gunlab.net/ar-180-part-2/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:34:34 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=1712 In part 2 of making the AR-180 we will be looking at the upper receiver and the steps necessary to make one. There are a number of rifles that use the same basic design concept. So this build concept would work for any of them.

This is the AR-18/180.

And a close up of the [...]]]> In part 2 of making the AR-180 we will be looking at the upper receiver and the steps necessary to make one. There are a number of rifles that use the same basic design concept. So this build concept would work for any of them.

This is the AR-18/180.

DSCN2975scAnd a close up of the upper receiver.

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A number of other weapons have the same basic upper receiver design. This includes the AR-180B

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DSC_2737scThe early Bushmaster rifle

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This is what the flat would look like after the initial pressing. The holes would be alignment holes for set up and the groves would be pressed in.

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This pressing shows the unnecessary sheet metal cut away and the remainder of the holes in the receiver.

 

 

 

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The other side of the same pressing

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At this point there were probably 2 or three ops performed between this pressing and the last one.  The hole has been cut into the receiver for the ejection port and for the bolt operating handle. In addition the first and second bend has been completed.

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The other side of the same pressing.

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You can now see the upper receiver completely bent and welded.

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These 4 holes on both sides of the receiver are to tig weld the barrel extension to the upper receiver.

DSC_2538sThe vertical run of holes is to tig weld the “u” channel that the bolt runs along into the receiver.

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Close up of the welding performed to close the upper receiver together.

DSC_2545sOur next post on this type of rifles will be the smaller parts and how they were made.

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