Restoring and updating an Angel LCD

[RustyShackleford]

In an attempt to restore my brothers Angel LCD- I ended up damaging his breech and body to just get the thing to open. Breech rod was pretty dang rusted up in there, but a good suggestion was to cut it. I got it open which allowed me to salvage the bolt and ram. I ordered a body on ebay and started to plan a cool project. Converting it to 9v with a PM7/PMR board, drilling it for DM4 eyes, and ordering a set of eyes from Dr.Strangelove, he built me a set of DM4 eyes that terminated in the PM7 ribbon! So step one is get this guy drilled! My buddy is a machinist, and he asked me to make a model so we can do some precise eye work. I went overboard and created a pipe version of the angel LCD, which i might try for on the next project. Right now, we are just going to drill and see if we cant add eyes to this body, and get the guts from my brother's angel into this one and get it running!

[automeister]

Pretty interested! You got to have him make that body! I would be interested in one too and could pitch in!

[RustyShackleford]

My buddy is such a perfectionist, he wouldnt let me drill press this body. I cad'd up the body as a block with a barrel, and used calipers to find out the locations of where i wanted everything to go. this is the result!

[RustyShackleford]

Eyes are loosely routed now!

[RustyShackleford]

I'm not as good at documenting as Myrkul- he's definitely the inspiration for sharing this stuff

My brothers Angel LCD is the blue one. I got a butter knife silver body off eBay and decided to make it a project.

found myself with a spare 40 minutes today so took the ram , valve, LPR, and solenoid from the blue to the silver.

so far it's going smooth! Changed and lubed Orings- I'm surprised many of the O rings in this thing look new- hard to say what condition time has on these things so I swapped em out anyway. I didn't want to sink any more money into this thing but I got a silver single trigger frame coming

[GlocksInMySocks]

Amazing

[RustyShackleford]

Amazing

if it actually shoots, it will be amazing!

[screwloose45]

Theangelguy has 3d printed eye covers if you're looking https://www.theangelguy.com/contact

[RustyShackleford]

Theangelguy has 3d printed eye covers if you're looking https://www.theangelguy.com/contact

Thank you! I actually want the old JB weld look that the old dynasty guys had back in the 90s

[RustyShackleford]

[RustyShackleford]

Low feedneck stud - and an old eBay Ego feedneck and this Angel is ready for any loader. Breech won't open but that's ok- if the eyes work- it won't be a problem!

[RustyShackleford]

[RustyShackleford]

did some cutting on the PMR board, fit the foam into the frame to figure out where else i need to cut to make a small mount for this thang

[RustyShackleford]

[RustyShackleford]

So far so good- as soon as a trigger pin gets in I can install the trigger and see where I should put the micro switch- then I'm thinking a little epoxy will make everything a little more permanent