nstassel
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Got to start drinking beer from cans
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1d9Bz34bU&feature=youtu.be
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Got to start drinking beer from cans
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1d9Bz34bU&feature=youtu.be
I guess it's like making black powder thenYeah, you can make the lower, but if you don't do it on a CNC, it takes forever and isn't worth the time compared to what a lower goes for. Seriously, if you make at least $15/hr, you're better off buying a lower.
If you guys want to make your own stuff, stick with "fake" suppressors.
Dude, it would cost a thousand times more to buy the tools, the lathe/mill, grinder, etc. to make a lower than if you just bought a lower. With black powder, the expense is a tumbler machine and a few bucks of the ingredients and once it's all said and done, you've spent maybe $7 for a pound of black powder as opposed to $25.I guess it's like making black powder then
Just teasing I would never make my own lower either - at least not an AR.Dude, it would cost a thousand times more to buy the tools, the lathe/mill, grinder, etc. to make a lower than if you just bought a lower. With black powder, the expense is a tumbler machine and a few bucks of the ingredients.
Just teasing I would never make my own lower either - at least not an AR.
I checked really I didI already posted video ! so dupe
Who are you going to buy it from after the knowledge about how to start from scratch is lost with the death of the last craftsman?Yeah, you can make the lower, but if you don't do it on a CNC, it takes forever and isn't worth the time compared to what a lower goes for. Seriously, if you make at least $15/hr, you're better off buying a lower.
I'm not set up to do 90% of what's done here so I'll stick with 80% lowers.
My question is on the strength of the aluminum. Aluminum cans are not 6061 or 7075 like most lowers.
I'm not set up to do 90% of what's done here so I'll stick with 80% lowers.
Cool video, also extremely ballsy to cast his own case and bullet and then just dump an unknown amount of powder in and shoot it.
I was thinking this too. There is a reason they don't make pure aluminum cases. Then he filled it. I'm assuming he didn't seat the bullet with the powder topped off like he showed. I also assume the case volume was much less than a factory case as it looked like he only bored a straight hole in the case the size of the neck.
not exactly an unknown amount - he said he pulled the projectile from a commercial cartridge (presumably .223) and dumped out the powder. He then puts less than the full load in the case because (as noted) it's just a straight-walled hole.I was thinking this too. There is a reason they don't make pure aluminum cases. Then he filled it. I'm assuming he didn't seat the bullet with the powder topped off like he showed. I also assume the case volume was much less than a factory case as it looked like he only bored a straight hole in the case the size of the neck.
There's 4473 reasons for 80% lowers. Nor everybody lives in Mass.Yeah, you can make the lower, but if you don't do it on a CNC, it takes forever and isn't worth the time compared to what a lower goes for. Seriously, if you make at least $15/hr, you're better off buying a lower.
If you guys want to make your own stuff, stick with "fake" suppressors.
Yeah, you can make the lower, but if you don't do it on a CNC, it takes forever and isn't worth the time compared to what a lower goes for. Seriously, if you make at least $15/hr, you're better off buying a lower.
If you guys want to make your own stuff, stick with "fake" suppressors.