What did you make today?

[XEMON]

I might make a barrel tip for it ...

well ... i did 😁
Final barrel:

[Heavy_D]

Did a lot of sanding today, Plan is to next wet sand out with true oil, to fill some small pores, and harden it up a little. waiting on some brass bar stock, and tubing for a spring feed tube.

I Would love to Find a old PT Extreme Lever changer, or palmers/docs quick changer..

The fore end is staying a blank slate till I figure out what method of 12g changer i'm going to end up using, as well doing alot of brainstorming on how to fashion a lever changer/ pivot block for it, or to go the bolt action route. Open to suggestions/ opinions.

[XEMON]

I used Clough42's kit, it saved me a lot of time getting the base started.
After a few firmware tweaks, i added some custom thread modes, a threading cycle, and a switch i can put on the ways to stop the carriage.

[Breakdown]

Finally got around to re-programming the electronic lead screw for the lathe, and taking it for a test drive I ended up with a new barrel 😅
I might make a barrel tip for it ...

Which ELS did you end up going with? I've been looking into several for my 9x30

[scottieb]

Tell people it's swarovski crystal.

[XEMON]

Finally got around to re-programming the electronic lead screw for the lathe, and taking it for a test drive I ended up with a new barrel 😅
I might make a barrel tip for it ...

[Jordan]

Modded an Angel LCD double trigger to fit the single trigger frame I bought for my Matrix. Not quite as drop in as I'd hoped but I like how it turned out.

[Myrkul]

Not too fancy, but super functional, eye mount adapters that will let me use Vapor 5mm eyes on a B2k4 that normally came with 3mm eyes stock. They work perfectly and will hold up way longer then the plastic the 3mm eyes use anyway! I'm happy with them.

[evilfishsticks]

The wife was unhappy with the lack of green hoppers that weren't lime or olive, so I picked up one of the white virtue IR2 and some green Rit synthetic dye. Ended up throwing a couple coats of clear coats in it as well. For my first try dyeing something I think it came out pretty good, but there are a few spots where the dye was kind of splotchy.

[flyweightnate]

A few days ago, but I empire-modded a Phantom. Super skinny feedneck so I'm debating shrink- fitting a little extra meat on there to keep the neck from rotating.

All because I couldn't find a straight elbo... er, hopper adapter. (Is it still called an elbow if it's straight?)

[Frmrspec]

Btw to the engineer/designer that decided to make all old school rams need special tools to disassemble/service markers… your moms a hoe

[superman]

nice.

[Frmrspec]

God I love being a machinist…. I bought a tribal addicted and plan to get it running, well I go to take out the ram so I can rebuild it and it won’t budge. First I tried my two Allen key trick (what works for a vast majority of these older markers).. after that failed miserably I decided to make myself a disassembly tool… easy enough to start with hex bar aluminum, turned down the neck so it will fit in the pocket and drilled two holes. Then turned down some hardened pins and pressed them into the body… total time 20-30 minutes and now I have a rebuild tool

As it turns out, the ram was green loctited into the body

[rainman229]

Made the shiny one today. Ezgrip to phantom UC

[JeeperCreeper]

Another non paintball thing, but this fix came from me being a brass airsmith.

I used a scrap piece of brass tubing to make a bushing for my 1996 JD lawn mower belt tensioner. The original one was plastic and 2 piece, and honestly did hold up for a long time, but now this should be indestructible.