Longest project?

[iamthelazerviking]

What's the longest amount of time you've spent on a build?

Getting close to a year on this current pump build so it got me thinking.

I've changed my mind a lot but a majority of the time has been waiting for Mozak to make the body and frame which is not a complaint at all and will definitely be worth the wait. Should be done very soon. Also waited a while for the v3 Slice pump kits so I could get the new version pump handle.

[jokers]

So I have to ask when you say longest project do you mean continues work on said project or project that has taken the most amount of time that may have been sitting on the bench for a year or 12 waiting on parts, interest in the sport to come back or even going out to have work done?

[Grendel]

I have a modified LAPCO Grey Spirit that I stared back in circa 2004 that while functional now still is not done. This marker has not been to a field to play since I started the project. I do need to get the removable barrel bored still then I need to tear it apart and prep it for anodizing. So for me that is 20ish years.

[XEMON]

Let me get back to you in a few years when i have those old project a little closer to "complete"

[Painthappy]

I've spent a lot of time thinking about some of my projects... and I mean a LONG time. But I've yet to pick up a wrench. I keep saying this will be the year I get them done.

[RAZRBAKK]

I bought the first piece for my Trracer project in April 2022, and it's been sitting at 90% complete for the last 6 months.

I'm a quitter, though. By this point I've usually parted it out and given up.

[scottieb]

Years upon years. Classic case of life and too many projects at one time.

[Jordan]

I don't think projects are ever truly "done", at least not for me.

Longest term, at present, is my Hurricane.... over four years, I believe. I bought it off here in 2020 and have been modding it since.

I thought I was done until Frmrspec posted up the CZ Shadow 2 AR grip that he'd modded and decided it would look real swell on my Hurricane so I've got one coming in the mail, as well as some CZ Hogue grips.

[Frmrspec]

You’re welcome

[cougar20th]

My dual mag. I want to say close to 7 years. That does not include the planning. Only the designing, having parts custom machined, gathering parts, making parts, assembly, tuning. Another huge part was gathering funds. 4k worth.

Longest is my AKA Vlm 'Envy' I did the cad work for suprbugman back in the early 2000's. Eventually bought the project in the mid 2000's. And have never figured put what anodize to put on it.

[Magmoormaster]

Longest from start to completion? I started collecting pieces for the Spine autococker in 2019. got it assembled from ano in 2022.

Longest from start and as yet incomplete? I started version 3 of my tippmann model 98 pump in 2017 or 18, and haven't touched it since.

And of course there's a number of projects I started and never completed. Two ebolts, a PGP, an early cocker, and so on.

[mmblake]

i know someone that has been working on a build for about 20 yrs. He keeps sayin that he will be completely retired when he finishes them.

[Trbo323]

7 years? Was kind of on and off and pretty much at every stage I could still play with it

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[Psycho91]

Little over a year on my cocker and pump builds

[Ecapnation]

The duck mag I've been working on for close to 7 years... I keep tweaking things and the finish line keeps moving. Biggest hurdle now is I have the trigger group to resort out. It worked with the benchmark but I switched to a taso which is fighting me with the movement being moved back an inch.

[DocsMachine]

Physical time spent working on it? I'd have to say that "double Fastback" V-Twin. Just fitting the cocking block took WAY longer than I'd expected.

In simple "time since the project started" terms? I sent a MiniCocker body and a couple of other parts into an anodizer to have the factory anno stripped. This was at the same time I had my Green Cocker annoed, so early summer of 1996.

In the subsequent years, I collected other parts, including a metal single-hole slide frame, which was surplused out from Smart Parts, after they stopped selling the Eclipse Splash kits, a prototype LAPCO minicocker vertical ASA (the kind that bolted on with an internal gas-thru screw) the stainless back to, I think, a 32 Degrees 2-piece barrel (the one where the back had a sort of "shark mouth" vee shape to it) and a 12" Boomstick tip (the old glue-in style, the idea was to make a "scaled down" Boomstick) one of the first run of AKA super-hard sliding trigger components (and I have a set that I'd sent in and had coated in tungsten carbide ) and a whole binful of other little bits.

I do still intend to build it, but at this point? That's about 28½ years and counting.

Doc.