fez123 0 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 is it cheaper to buy one or make one on a milling machine Quote Link to post
Guest Scuba1 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 If you have a mill and the time, its cheaper to make one. A lot cheaper. HTH Michael Quote Link to post
donnyc 1,203 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Depends on the finished result ..ie the design and effectiveness ..Many out there OK for legal limit but when it comes to FAC lots fall by the wayside especially for high FAC Quote Link to post
Guest Scuba1 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Ohhh and I just wanted to add, that it is a damn sight better project to chopping the barrel of your gun. Quote Link to post
fez123 0 Posted July 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Ohhh and I just wanted to add, that it is a damn sight better project to chopping the barrel of your gun. lol Quote Link to post
foxon 0 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 is it cheaper to buy one or make one on a milling machine Good Quality silencers off the shelf are realitively cheap to buy, so long as they work well with your rifle, if I build a rifle or tune for a Customer I will build a silencer around the perfomance of that I have tuned, it is quite labour intensive useing stock items, as you have a lot of machining prosesses like threading boring & bluing, unless you are doing this on a large scale it is not cost effective when you can bulk buy HWs or BSAs for as little as £12 per unit. foxon. Quote Link to post
Guest Scuba1 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Foxon I agree with you, but I think fez may just want to have something to do and now that he found out that chopping his gun in two is not a clever thing to do, he wants something else to fiddle with. Good on him I say its all part of the learning process. What better way to learn about moderators then to make one. ATB Michael Quote Link to post
foxon 0 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Foxon I agree with you, but I think fez may just want to have something to do and now that he found out that chopping his gun in two is not a clever thing to do, he wants something else to fiddle with. Good on him I say its all part of the learning process. What better way to learn about moderators then to make one. ATB Michael Could not agree more with you Scuba, how did he chop his rifle & why? ATB, Glynn. Quote Link to post
Guest Scuba1 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 He didn't I hope http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index...howtopic=112961 ATB Michael Quote Link to post
fez123 0 Posted July 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 He didn't I hope http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index...howtopic=112961 ATB Michael i didnt i just saw one on crime watch and though id ask if anyone else had seen one before Quote Link to post
hughesey1552 0 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 I would of thought it would be a lot easier to make using a lathe. everything will have to be concentric and quite highly toleranced i would imagine. Hughesey Quote Link to post
foxon 0 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 I would of thought it would be a lot easier to make using a lathe. everything will have to be concentric and quite highly toleranced i would imagine. Hughesey You are very correct there Hughesey, the problem is setting it all up for a one off, have done a batch of 10 that had been proven before I made that many, but was still a good two days work, you could not make a living from this alone, you would need a machine pre set for each prosess plus a finishing area for polishing & bluing, even if you were only makeing sleve type silencers without threading, there are still a lot of proceses during production. foxon. Quote Link to post
Guest Scuba1 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 I don't think he wants to make a living out of it, more a bit of fun. I had one of those Emco multi jobbies lathe and mill in one and made loads of things on it. I miss that little thing sometimes but here I just don't have the space to set one up. ATB Michael Quote Link to post
foxon 0 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 I don't think he wants to make a living out of it, more a bit of fun. I had one of those Emco multi jobbies lathe and mill in one and made loads of things on it. I miss that little thing sometimes but here I just don't have the space to set one up. ATB Michael Scuba I know the one, model makers love them, I have an old Myford ex MOD lathe & a Colcheter mill, both ancient but I know them like the back of my hand, saves a lot of time too rather than waiting on a part, I see on ebay they have the sealey copy of the Emco on there, ideal for those little jobs. foxon. Quote Link to post
Guest Scuba1 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Colchester made some nice bits of kit in their days. I worked on a few of them in my time. And yes I had the Emco for making bits for the large scale model planes I used to build. For all my bigger jobs I had the workshop of a shipyard at my disposal with mills lathes and all sorts of other gear, plus material for free. Happy days. ATB Michael Quote Link to post
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