Very nice. Even with the unfinished stock, it looks great. Very...purposeful.by rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
Yeah, I guess we did the "nerd overkill" thing a bit there...sorry about that. Seeing as the closest thing I've ever done to the hand-made knife arena was a cocobolo letter opener, I guess I'll just say "nice work there" and mean it!by rotorhead - The Picture Gallery
ring = torus, same thing If you can get a punch of the right diameter, you could make lots of circles to work with. In fact, if you pre-drill the arrow's hole through the middle, and then punch out the right diameter ring centered on that hole, your works mostly done. Actually, since you've got a 20ga. you should be able to find pre-made wads of the correct diameter in the reloading cataloby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
QUOTE : "Now ... dragons, on the other hand, are interesting." Hmmm...interesting. Personally, I'm pretty happy that we live in a completely dragon-free world. If even half of what the legends say was true, an infestation of dragons would require calling out the National Guard. Of course, if chickens were twenty feet tall, they'd eat grizzly bears for breakfast and eggs would be the most dangeby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Spiffy! That's not all aluminum we're looking at, is it? Is part of it anodyzing and part of it blueing? In any case, I'm also anxious to see how the complete rifle looks when it's finished.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
You might try a sabot of cork or felt or styrofoam. I'd suggest a torus (ring) with the outside diameter that of the muzzle and the interior diameter that of the arrow. Cut the rings into halves or thirds radially, so that you can tuck them in between the muzzle and the arrow. If you razor-cut the radial cuts with a bit of gap, they ought to separate and blow out of the way at launch. If loadingby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
If you've got a hacksaw and a file, you've got a choke removal toolkit. Of course you might want to get fancy and use a lathe, some people are picky about having vice marks on their barrels, for some reason. I suspect Jerry is right on target with the comment about it not ALWAYS being a 500fpe gun. Theoretically there's no limit on how heavy a projectile you can use, you could just muzzleloadby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
No problem. Just set up a wire snare along the path that he usually uses, and wait. When he spots that in the way either he'll freeze in place and you get him with the .22, or he doesn't and you get him with the wire. THEN you get him with the .22 And no, I'm not much of a "sport" hunter. I'm more along the lines of a "lets put dinner on the table" type hunter. Whatever get the job done, provideby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
If you make your own arrows, keep in mind that nothing says they have to be whipply little shafts identical to those used for bows. You've got .62 inches to work with (more or less) so you can go up a LOT on diameter to get better stiffness. Perhaps some 1/2" aluminum tubing would work, you could add sufficient fletchings to center the back end and make the arrowhead close to bore diameter. Someby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Yup, the old "needs more sanding" nightmares have gotta get to you from time to time. probably why you've built so many fiendishly clever devices to insure that you'll never have to hand-sand anything that a machine could do instead. His other favorite was to suggest that whatever project you had finally finished sanding needed yet ANOTHER coat of varnish. I think the real motive was to get tby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
It's nice that the Barrett rings have the taper built-in to the rings themselves instead of requiring a separate base. I noticed that they've also used Torx screwheads, a nice touch.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Might have better luck with crossbow bolts, or just make your own. Gary has some stuff posted somewhere on his site where he was shooting homemade steel-rod bolts out of one of his smoothbores, and even the solid steel ones bent on impact. Regular arrows made for bows are shockingly flexible, when you watch the high-speed video of them leaving a bow they'll easily bend a couple inches at releaseby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hmmm...snail traps not quite up to the task...maybe you can just set out some spare cans of stale beer and hope they fall into them and drown like the slugs in my strawberries. I guess you're gonna have to just plan on re-welding it every time you beat it up at the range. Either that, or figure some way to get a nice, continuous spiral out of 3/8 sheet with no welds, Oh, and at maybe face harby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
SWEET! The stock reminds me of the "nebula" rifle from the wayback machine, kinda "buck rodgers" style. You're gonna have to gin up one of those "snail type" bullet trap if you keep this up. They make the slugs spin round and round inside to dissipate the energy gradually instead of just taking it out in one big bang. Savage makes them, though I don't know if any of their models are portabby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hmmm....that's strange, the bandsaw in the HS shot class worked the same way. Old Mr. Schick would say "hey dummy, you broke it, you fix it", and he'd never have to touch it. Still and all, it was better than the woodshop teacher. He'd just say "needs more sanding". Sandpaper is the ultimate tool for a woodshop teacher. It's safe for even the most boneheaded teenager; you REALLY have toby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Looks like a very stout setup. I guess it would have to be, since it's designed for 50BMG rifles. If it doesn't work out quite like you thought, here's another possible option. Their standard taper seems to be 20MOA, but they have others as well. Not cheap, especially for the unimounts. They have a clamp-on inclinometer that seems like a pretty good piece of kit. These guys also haby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hey Neil, Glad to hear that you're volunteering to head on down the precision sabot route. I don't think that many applications have warranted the amount of work it takes to get a sabot to work accurately. After all, you end up throwing them away with every shot. Saboted shotgun slugs have been commercially successful not because of their gilt-edged accuracy, but rather because they're soby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Sounds like fun was had by all, despite the heat. Thanks for posting!by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I remember using the blade cutter/grinder/welder on the metal cutting bandsaw in highschool shop class. They always had a box of bulk (and cheap) blade hanging up on the wall behind it since we went through blades so often. I just thought they ALL had a setup like that. The first time I had to change out a (premade, big $$$) blade on a consumer model I couldn't believe how involved the whole pby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
You know, the folks that practice medicine in other countries probably just shake their heads in disgust when they hear stuff like that. My best pair of fine-work pliers are actually a "disposable" hemostat from Pakistan. I got it "free" with a set of stitches, they were just gonna throw it away.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Don't get a V.A. doc started up on that whole "wash it and re-use it" thing...Although in their defence, the advent of CJD and other prion diseases has really thrown a loop into the whole sterilization idea for invasive instrumentation. Not too many delicate instruments stand up well to being boiled in caustic soda under high pressure, for some reason. The whole "going stale" thing is almost alwby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Jerry, I wouldn't DREAM of asking you to describe main-rotor/tail-rotor vortex interaction during translational flight. How about just a "simple" exposition on the differences between the ideal calculated/predicted location for a rotorcraft horizontal stabilizer versus that obtained by empirical testing instead? Neil, it's not too surprising that someone with primarily "artistic" talents canby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I just noticed that your bandsaw has a little nozzle pointed at the work, I assume it's low pressure air to keep the chips/dust from obscuring what you're working on. The ones I've used never had that, and I always ended up blowing the chips away at intervals myself (gee, now I guess I know why bandsaw work always made me a bit dizzy after a while) Did you have to add that or did it come with itby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Didn't you even gin up a hollowpoint "buckslug" design? As I recall you could either use it forward as an HP design or backwards as a "hollow skirt". Something about squirrels...by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Very pretty, nice work there. Your grind lines look pretty even and it has a nice line and symmetry. It's hard to get a good tight focus on highly reflective items with most digital cameras, isn't it? They want to focus on the background since it's easier for the image focus sensor to distinguish. If your camera doesn't have a manual focus system, you might try "locking-in" the focus on the bby rotorhead - The Picture Gallery
Sepetus: Don't think you'll have much luck with trying to seperate the lead from the antimony and such. Once a metal has alloyed it won't easily seperate just by heating, it usually has to be pried apart by chemical means. It's not like distillation of liquids, with metals the different elements become incorporated into the crystal structure of the resulting alloy (which then has a different mby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I seem to remember making a lot of short, dark orange sparks on the grinding wheel back when. Mostly I was just making long bars of tool steel into short bars of tool steel, one grind at a time. Sometimes they'd even work OK on the lathe, most often not. So with the new diamond wheels and water for lube there's no sparks at all, I'd assume. Do you keep an old-fashioned silicon carbide wheel arby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
While that piloted cutter was undoubtedly a PITA to manufacture, I'll bet it's saved you a TON of rework over the years. Sometimes the right tool makes all the difference, and the ability to make EXACTLY the tool you need has got to be a lifesaver at times. Nice pics, thanks for the post Gary.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Gee, that hi-tech backdrop looks EXACTLY like my "dish towels" that somehow turned up in the kitchen. I wish they would just sell the things outright, they make great cleaning rags and such.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Just slap a gob of JB Weld over it and file it down flat after it dries. A shot or two of Krylon and you're good to go. Actually, it probably would have worked just fine with two screws and roughed out of bar stock with a hack saw. If it were me I'd have just center-drilled a chunk right down the middle and ground down a flat(ish) spot to clear the barrel with a belt grinder. Which explaiby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum