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I beseech thee Kommandos. Does anyone have the video/gif of the fireside creation of a bespoke shotgun? (I believe it's a double barrel, side to side). a thousand gobbies to the man who can find it for me along side eternal gratitude.
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>>52896290 The Webm linked one with the sexcellent piano backing track. A friend of mine is trying to restore a .22 that he wants to give to his son. He's been putting in all sorts of effort (hot blueing the screws that hold on the buttplate) out of a sense of personal satisfaction. I had this video saved on an old PC ages ago and wanted to find it again because it captured doing things well and right simply for the art of the craft.
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Thanks a million everyone for the one I was looking for and for all the other glorious finds, keep em coming.
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>>52896325 that was pretty cool are all the pats of the documentary on the channel
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>>52896336 oh that was me haha. yeah i saved it a long time ago
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Anything you can make at home that's /k/ related. From bespoke funs to useful tools to funny meme shit.
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What sort of nitrate is it? The extraction procedure could be as simple as using a different solvent aside from water and recrystallizing from that.
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>>45238963 Well, it usually says it contains ammonium nitrate but it also has water soluble potassium salts in it.
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ITT: bespoke finishes
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>>47665343 Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
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>>47663912 I have an ugly bulgarian makarov that would be alot nicer with refinishing and polishing.
I found someone who will tear it down and polish it and refinish it, but they offer lots of coatings.
Should I do NiBor, hard chrome, or electroless nickel?
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>>47663965 any background on this Luger? Looks famous.
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I want to commission a friend, who is a skilled woodworker, to make wooden furniture for my new AR. I can even see us starting a production line of bespoke wooden rifle furniture. What kind of special tools and equipment would be needed for such an endeavor?
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>>46411328 No that's exactly why he can visualize it
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>>46410960 That stock looks like a boot
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>>46413397 Guess I wasn't the only one
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Gentlemen of /k/, this thread is for currently serving, former and retired commissioned officers of all militaries. Here we can discuss work, alcohol, guns, advice, and the past, present, and future of our profession, or just whatever else.
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>>62566048 It was decent for a while, but you missed it. The problem is trolls and schizophrenics.
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>>62565484 *gives you an HQ OER*
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>>62567290 From what I gathered he's an enlisted SM fucking a Major.
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>>62567355 I read "the fucking" and not "fucking the."
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Shop is dead so I'll hang out and answer questions if you have any
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>>63508152 No guns lurker here, how viable is 22lr for EDC?
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>>63514275 Former LEfag can confirm. Ultimately worked for an obscure fed agency and many colleagues couldn’t clear any gun that was their exact issued duty pistol.
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>>63521703 Better than harsh language. But generally speaking, the smaller the cartridge, the more important shot placement is.
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>>63508152 what's your favourite over-under you sell
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I am a 50 yr. industry expert who has set up factories for everything. Rifles, pistols, ammo, powder, primers, explosives, artillery, all from scratch. This includes the machinery and tooling as well.
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Copied from a keybase chat years ago:>But the culprit is not the ratios of sulfuric to nitric acids, whithin certain limits of course >The main issue is the water content of the nitrating acids >Of course the more water there is, the lower %N of your smokeless >The theoretical limit is 14,14% N >The more you can get with sulfuric is 13,9 %, but then it degrades to 13,5% >13,1-13,4 is CP1 NC >To a big degree unsoluble in ether + alcohol (uses to be a mixture 6:4 but it can change) >The other important thing is the ratio of cellulose to acid >At industrial contexts 40-60 parts of acid are used >The logic behind: the %N of the NC depends on the water concentration of the spent acid >The more acid to cellulose there is, the less variation you have >I'd use a ratio of 30:1 or so for economic reasons, while performing a nitration at your home
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>>62852799 >So in a home context I would use concentrated acids and a 30-1 ratio, or the like >In an industrial context you want a more or less quick reaction, not more than an hour, and the acids difuse better if there is a certain ammount of water in them, so they might use like acids with 10% water or so >But at your home you can just leave the whole thing nitrating for a few days >The NC stablishes and equilibrium with the water content in the acid >For example you have a certain concentration of acid that gives you 12% NC >That gives you a spent acid with a certain concentration of water >If you use that spent acid and submerge in it 13,5% N nitrocellulose, over the time the thing will denitrate to 12% >30 mixed acid : 1 cellulose >You'll have 90-96% sulfuric acid if bought from the store (drain cleaner) >NA distilled from a nitrate and SA will be +90%, you'll need to determine concentration trough density >I think the bare minimum of acid will be like 25 parts to 1 cellulose, that using med grade cotton >Just to keep all the cotton submerged, the shit is bulky >To make propper smokeless powder, single base, your going to need both highly nitrated NC (+13%) and a lower nitated one too (less than 12,5%) >You need both gelatinized NC and fibrous NC to make a powder suited for small arms >If you just add your +13% NC to acetone, you make it all plastic and burn slow >Fully gelatinized powder will only work if mixed with NG or something of the like, or made porous perhaps Anonymous
>>62824273 >>62837857 >outsourcing to Taiwan What's the legality of that? Can I really outsource bcg's and other parts? What's the limit there? Anything but the part that's actually considered a gun (lower on AR15, etc.)?
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>>62852968 Basically anything that doesn't violate import rules in the US and export rules in the origin country.
Anything that can come into the country as a parts kit is fair game.
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In the age of 100 supersteels for knives, why are gun barrels still limited to the same 4 steels we've used for decades? We still only have two carbon steels:
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>>61422462 It doesn't, you're just too busy looking at war news to pay attention to your favorite jerk off material threads.
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>>61422617 for consumer rifle barrels? probably never. we don't even use the best steels, because cheaper steels are good enough.
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>>61398525 >What if your 7mm Rem Mag had the same barrel life as a 7mm-08? You would spend a lot more on ammo, and your electricity bill would skyrocket on account of all those freezers full of deer meat.
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>>61422617 Where inconel (or other Ni/Co based alloys) would really shine is high temperature applications like machine guns so unless we can get the Hughes Amendment overturned there is no good rationale.
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Post common locking mechanisms for double barrel shotguns and the like
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>>62169661 I nearly mentioned that, but since he specifically mentioned skeet use, he wouldn’t see this benefit as there’s no reason to run anything but cyl/cyl or skt/skt for that game.
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Volume 2
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>>61386341 It has most to do with the difference in quality of the trigger. I really can't stress how much different a model 66-2 feels compared to a modern 66.
The old is smooth and light while the new one is gritty and heavy. You can always slick them up and I'll do that with my model 69, but most people don't have that know-how.
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>>61386354 Oh, I agree with you there. My pre-lock Model 10s have the best triggers of any revolver I've owned (which probably isn't saying much).
Even my mom's S&W 30-1 has a really nice trigger.
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>>61386354 Beat me to it. I have other S&Ws with locks, the lock itself doesn't bother me that much. But the earlier guns were higher quality all around. The finish is nicer, the trigger is better, the overall fit is better with less endshake, etc. A basic pre-lock S&W has the fit and finish of today's Performance Center models.
Now that said, I will say that it's not too hard to improve triggers on S&Ws. Even something as simple as a Wolff spring kit makes an improvement and that requires zero mucking around with the sear surfaces, it's just a drop-in that's easy to install without any special tools or gunsmithing skills.
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>>61386388 The only reason I would play with DA sear/trigger sear fit is if there's a hump in the pull. (Extra resistance) That's usually caused by a DA sear that's too long.
Otherwise it's felt and flitz on all contact surfaces as well as shims.
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