Olga's Surgery

[Stradawhovious]

you just wish you had a whole inch

Oooooooooooo..... Buuuuuuurn..........

At least I'm not an engineer. By the way.... where's your hat?

Whooooooooooo- Woooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

[Shipyard]

you just wish you had a whole inch

Oooooooooooo..... Buuuuuuurn..........

At least I'm not an engineer. By the way.... where's your hat?

Whooooooooooo- Woooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

my hat's underneath that hammer - you want to hand it to me?

[Sherry]

What? Huh? I stole back my pry bar today.

[Lunchbox]

Get the barrel pulled off?

[SparkyJeff]

Get the barrel pulled off?

Well I got the last coat on and dried. It looks pretty nice for a polished turd. I wont be starting on the new barrel and everything until after the first of the year. So to make sure I don't lose any of the screws... I just reassemble the rifle. I got to say... It looks pretty sweet as it is now.

looks like you have a few days to catch up.

[Anokamnman]

Taking a break from Olga. Will order the new material to manufacture the barrel in January. Spending time drawing up different barrel profiles to see what I like most.

[AFTERMATH]

[Anokamnman]

Wow its been a while since I have updated this. Ordered the barrel blank a few months ago. Say in my gun room for a couple months. Threw it on the lathe today. Turned down the shoulder and threaded it. Fits perfect on the receiver. Will turn the contour this weekend. And put the finishing touches on it. Reassemble it monday and test fire it next week.

Be warned.... Planning on test firing in Beroun, MN next wednesday. If you are near Beroun around noon on wednesday, take cover....

Been to busy with preparing for our move to the new house.

[AFTERMATH]

Wow its been a while since I have updated this. Ordered the barrel blank a few months ago. Say in my gun room for a couple months. Threw it on the lathe today. Turned down the shoulder and threaded it. Fits perfect on the receiver. Will turn the contour this weekend. And put the finishing touches on it. Reassemble it monday and test fire it next week.

Be warned.... Planning on test firing in Beroun, MN next wednesday. If you are near Beroun around noon on wednesday, take cover....

Been to busy with preparing for our move to the new house.

Sounds like I'd better build that wall this weekend!

[rukwikenuf]

i was watching him cut the contour a little bit today, and i felt angry! that thing was a solid 1.5" diameter HEAVY AS **** bbl. oh well, it'll look sa-wEEEt

[Anokamnman]

RUKWIK was a witness.... He has seen my beast of a creation through each step. Here are a few pics of the machining process. Had to get the measurements for the threads on the barrel. I destroyed the original reciever when I tried to remove the old barrel. DESTROYED IT. lol. So I ordered a replacement reciever and had it shipped to rockcreek... GREAT FFL. Will highly recommend him to everyone. Got the new reciever, looked up the threads and other measurements online. Then started making chips.

First process that I did was to cut the shoulder and thread the barrel to mate with the reciever. FYI I hate single point threading on a manual lathe. Really wanted to just write a program and do it up on a CNC but no bar feeder. So I got stuck with the manual engine lathe.

Next step was to tear out the 3 jaw chuck and turn this thing between centers. I hate turning between centers anyways... but turning a 26" heavy piece of steel between centers SUCKED... Had to use the steady rest. But I got it done. Here are some pics of that.







Once I had the contour done I threw on the reciever and tried to mount it back into the stock. That didn't work so hot. Since I didn't want to make the barrel the same as the original. I wanted it to be much thicker. After thinking about how to modify the stock for the larger diameter barrel and checking out tooling prices, I took a day to decide how to proceed. Sure I could have bought a radius end mill and done it the right way. Or even go to menards and look for a router bit that would get it pretty close. But then I remembered, THIS IS A BUBBA. Grabbed the utility knife and widdled the stock down to make the new barrel fit. Touched it up with a black sharpy marker. Good as new.

Next it was time to ream out the chamber. Thank god for 4d-products. Just rented the tooling I needed. Set up the engine lathe and started reaming the chamber. Checked the chamber with the go/no go gauges. RIGHT ON THE MONEY. And I didn't break the reamer. So now I get my deposit back.

After that it was time to modify the bolt face. Turn a little material off of it. Now we are ready.

I also threw the barrel in the glass bead blaster. Put it all back together... And BAM. Still have a couple of minor cosmetic things to do... But they will be done in the next couple days. The majority of the work is complete. She appears functional. We shall find out at the test fire.

My only regret... That I didn't make 2 of them.

[Anokamnman]

Game Over.

[Anokamnman]

Since this was supposed to be the cheap alternative to building another black rifle

Does this qualify as an evil black rifle????

[Shipyard]

Beautiful!!! Can't wait to see that beast in action!

[AFTERMATH]

Since this was supposed to be the cheap alternative to building another black rifle

Does this qualify as an evil black rifle????

Nope - Needs a pistol grip(so you can fire from the hip while running), flash hider(so they can't see where you shot from), extended magazine(obviously for long bursts of automatic fire) , and a bayonet lug(because that's the terrorists real WMA!)... Then the whole things gotta be black so it blends in with your trench-coat.

So much for a cheap alternative....

Lookin' forward to seein' it in person!