2K1 Angel CnC Bonebrake

[Super Nova]

$old

[nadrepadre]

Do you happen to have any knowledge of the valve and ram and regs to know if they are different than a standard butterknife LCD? Is it possible it just has stickers? That looks like the factory WDP green and I'm pretty sure bonebrake anodized all their guns.

[Super Nova]

I havent taken it apart to look at the valve and ram, I can try and get a photo after work today through the breech. Im pretty sure in the early years you could send any angel to bonebrake and he would perform/install all the parts and work to make it a bonebrake.

[Roger7pball]

I didn’t think anodizing was part of their forte, but I could be wrong.

[Super Nova]

I didn’t think it was either, I know when bonebrake starting having their own line of markers like bonebrake milled bushmasters for example is when they started doing ano.

[forumreader]

There's a better than good chance that this went through the Bonebrake shop. I started working for Dan around 1997 and came up with the Bonebrake mods on his Avalanche team gun (an early early early Angel LED). Every angel that was worked on was done by me or one other guy. We were not a big operation.

I don't want to derail your for sale thread, but those stickers were kept under lock and key at the shop and were never mailed out or handed out to anyone. We also worked on a ton of angels that looked just like that guy. I have seen angels that have had the Bonebrake parts removed, so you may have super stickers on an otherwise stock gun. Anything's possible.

I'm happy to answer other questions about Bonebrake stuff, but I know it's not the best forum etiquette to clutter up someone's for sale thread.

Good luck with your sale!

[Relief]

What were the details on the mods you guys did? I thought it was just flipping the micro switch? But I’ve never seen that breakdown of valve guide, bolts etc.

[forumreader]

Never flipped any micro switches on an angel. The work on the LED was the most extensive. We drilled out the ASA, grip frame, and body (this is the entire gas path from inline reg to the valve). We turned the cup seal stem to increase air flow. We also broke down the LPR and removed as much material as possible from the LPR body to increase valve chamber volume. Finally, we made a new hammer from stainless and a high flow bolt that was made to fit from ertalyte. The end result was a drastic decrease in operating pressure and a huge increase in efficiency.

I never was and am not a machinist, but we had a local player/friend who is a very talented machinist make the parts and cut things up. I broke guns down, he made parts, then I reassembled and tuned the dwell (that was fun on original angels because there was no dwell number, just an adjustable pot) and dialed everything in. We did other little things like replace the black screws with stainless steel and replace orings and stuff.

By the time the LCD rolled around, WDP had made some changes to the LPR and gas paths in the body that negated a lot of the machine work. We still cut the LPR bodies to increase volume a bit. We then had hammers made in bulk and bolts as well. I was sad to see this, because I really liked having the bolts made to fit each body instead of undersized to fit all guns. We started to incorporate other little things like squaring and polishing the LPR piston and adding screws to pin the microswitch on the LCD boards.

I'm sure there's more, but that's a quick summary of what we did for those generations.

[Relief]

Wow cool stuff. Now I wanna check one out. Bonebreak LED on the list.

[Super Nova]

Here's the best pic I could get of the valve and hammer. The hammer is a little dirty in the pic so it looks brown but I would guess they are both SS.

[Super Nova]

bump, lets get this sold. I know someone needs a bonebrake angel in their life.