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I think I'm tapped out on what I can do myself. The wood is just about finished now that I've stippled the foregrip, pistol grip, and back area. I need to stop handling it before it gets a good cure so I can polish out the dull in the oil coating, but that's pretty much it. Only thing left now is to send out the steel and stainless steel pieces to get the black oxide cold blue coating media blasted off, and have it all black nitride finished. Many years of my life working on something for who the fuck knows why has come to a close, and I'm glad to not have to work on anything again for a while.
It's been slow in progress lately, but the Wa2000 project is moving along. With anodizing now down, it's starting to look like an actual rifle, and not a garage hack job.
Show me some of your trees /k/ retards. Mines not the best, but it's the first Christmas in our house as a family, so all new and a bit sad. The black retard I tried to get to sit for a picture, but he kept trying to walk to me everytime I set him down.
I picked up a outdated, but era correct, piece of shit yesterday. An old Z51 NV scope. So I machined a mount for it to fit the not a Wa2000
Despite its age, I'm actually pretty impressed with its image quality. Would recommend buying if any of you retards stumble across one. It's no modern gen 3 by any means, but it's still pretty nifty, fun, and usable still for their price point.
Undiagnosed, but after spending years remaking this over and over until it was 'correct', I'm pretty sure.
Still clearly unfinished by the obvious raw wood and metal, but it has fired several .300 win mag rounds out of it.
As far as one can do, it is pretty much a direct carbon copy clone without actually measuring and cross testing on a original Wa2000. If disassembled, it's pretty much indistinguishable from the real one.
So with international travel starting to be a thing again I've once taken my camera for an extended walk, and as before I'll be subjecting those of you who haven't decided to filter me out to some of the more relevant results. This time I jumped to pond to see a few bits of the Americas (and if it needs to be clarified, I'm back home by now). First out since it was relatively quick to sort and process the photos from it is the USS Growler, fourth of its name.
China has announced a fuckhuge container ship with an MSR powerplant. Naval analysts say this is likely going to serve as their testbed for their first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The Chinese are marketing it as all about emissions reduction, but the size of the vessel and nuclear power greatly reduce the number of possible destinations for commercial use. The current speculation is that they're using thorium.
GCaptain: >Plans for Nuclear-Powered 24,000 TEU Containership Unveiled in China. China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has unveiled plans for what could potentially become the world’s largest nuclear-powered containership.
>Plans for the 24,000-TEU-class ship was unveiled Tuesday at Marintec China expo in Shanghai. The vessel will utilize a fourth-generation Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) to generate electricity.
>“The ultra-large nuclear container ship is designed to truly achieve ‘zero emissions’ during the ship’s operating cycle,” CSSC said in a Weibo post.
>Classification society DNV was reportedly on hand for the launch ceremony to issue an approval-in-principle to CSSC shipyard Jiangnan Shipbuilding.
>“This ship type has high safety, the reactor operates at high temperature and low pressure, can avoid core melting in principle, and has anti-proliferation and inherent safety features,” CSSC’s Weibo post said (translated using Google Translate).
>Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are a type of small scale modular nuclear reactors that use a liquid mixture of salts as both the fuel and the coolant. The fuel, which is dissolved in the salt, allows for better control and efficiency in the nuclear reaction, providing improved safety and potential for higher fuel utilization.
