ADA: Ask Doc Anything!

[Junglepeanut]

Can you make me a bolt for my Fastback? Some heathen replaced the stock bolt with a B2K bolt long before it came into my possession. Need to get the proper one in there to get it dialed in

[JCC]

What about tapping the existing air passages to use LP hose barbs and then fitting in an eBlade noid? The noid can take the original space occupied by the noid and drop down somewhat into the space crossing over to the battery tube. LP barbs would just need to stop before threading into the ram. Can tap them from underneath or go crazy and mill top of LED to accept a LCD noid cover and have access from the top.

[lew]

-I know. I put it there for you to find.

... whatever it was.

Doc.

Matrix VASA screw to complete the build in-progress. So, thanks for crawling out of your igloo, braving the raging moose, and flying down from the frozen muskeg just to deliver that.

If you have any Matrix parts or specs, lemme know.

Cheers!

[cellophane]

-Can but shouldn't. That's one of those things that, in my opinion and likely that of the DOT as well, if the tank threads are at all compromised, the tank should be condemned.

Yeah, I don't always like it myself, but this is one case where I'm firmly on the side of better safe than sorry.

Thanks! Having a 4500psi bomb next to my face definitely warrants safe 😄

[DocsMachine]

Disregard: I found what the part I needed.

-I know. I put it there for you to find.

... whatever it was.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

What's the silver (raw?) rail on this mag on your website?

Is it something you made? I dig it quite a bit.

-Custom-built for a customer. Basically just something to drop the rail enough to put the macroline in a straight line- and the guy was big enough he liked the little extra drop to raise the sight line a touch. I thought it came out nice, and offered to have it annoed, but the customer liked the black-and-silver theme.



Doc.

[DocsMachine]

Can the threads on a tank be re-tapped if it was cross-threaded? My reg is toast, but the tank threads look almost decent.

-Can but shouldn't. That's one of those things that, in my opinion and likely that of the DOT as well, if the tank threads are at all compromised, the tank should be condemned.

Yeah, I don't always like it myself, but this is one case where I'm firmly on the side of better safe than sorry.

Doc.

[lew]

Disregard: I found what the part I needed.

[Drachen]

What's the silver (raw?) rail on this mag on your website?

Is it something you made? I dig it quite a bit.

[cellophane]

Why don't slide shorts have a fly? If velcro is good enough to keep the fly on my pants in place, I would think it should be fine for sliders.

Can the threads on a tank be re-tapped if it was cross-threaded? My reg is toast, but the tank threads look almost decent.

[DocsMachine]

If you pm me your address I will send over a single and you can verify its compatibility.

-PM sent.

At that point we can get rolling on 10, 12, 20? Idk how many are you willing to make?

-I'm willing to make as many as there's need for. That is, after all, my day job. It's just the kind of thing that if we only need 10 or 20, I'll likely make 'em by hand. If we need 300, I'll spec it out and hand it off to a CNC shop.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

What is the best way to cut ASA threads and what size are they? I have read a 1/2-14 NPS tap can work, but wanted to hear from someone who has probably done it a bunch. I can either thread mill them or use a hand tap (no rigid tapping capabilities yet).

-If you have the capability, thread mill because they come to a hard shoulder at the sealing end. That's very tricky to single-point, and a tap won't easily get all the way to the "top".

The spec is technically 0.825"-14 NGO (National Gas Outlet.) Yes, a 1/2"-14 NPS (National Pipe Straight) will work, but you'd be better off milling them if you can.

Somewhere around here I actually have a proper engineering drawing of an ASA, but I found it online, so I'm sure a little Google/Bing/Ducking can dig it up. Maybe ZDSPB?

Doc.

[Indeed]

That specific Humphrey noid is all over google. Aka even still sells replacements but at a bit higher cost. If you pm me your address I will send over a single and you can verify its compatibility. At that point we can get rolling on 10, 12, 20? Idk how many are you willing to make?

[travis1581]

What is the best way to cut ASA threads and what size are they? I have read a 1/2-14 NPS tap can work, but wanted to hear from someone who has probably done it a bunch. I can either thread mill them or use a hand tap (no rigid tapping capabilities yet).

[DocsMachine]

In your personal opinion, who (nation, entity, group, or individual person) bears the primary moral responsibility for the outbreak of the First World War?

-I always thought Mar did it. Something about being mad at the Brits for the Great Mayonnaise Embargo of 1912.

Doc.