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Saturday, October 03, 2009
Zips
9 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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They're just zip guns. The boyz in Chicago prolly got them in full auto by now. Lots of missing fingers though.
As an aside; I recall seeing a TV documentary some years ago about how the Afghans in one mountain village made AK replicas with charcoal fires and hand tools, and they looked and functioned like the factory made originals they copied.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
10/3/09, 1:06 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Looks like stuff out of Mad Max.
GrinfilledCelt -
10/3/09, 2:58 PM
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Kristophr said...
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Yep. You can remove a lot of metal by bolting a half dozen hacksaw blades side-by-side into a hacksaw handle.
Give a kid a pancake of metal sawn from a russian truck axle, scribe an outline of a pistol on the face of it, hand the kid that hacksaw, and tell him he can have a quarter when all the other metal is gone.
Pay him a quarter a week later, and hand him another pancake and some replacement blades.
The adults go to work on the rough part with files, stones, and hand drills. -
10/3/09, 3:00 PM
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ET said...
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Some time around 1953 or so I took an old cap gun (real metal made from two halves welded together), drilled the posts out of the barrel, reamed out the anvil the hammer struck, and made a very efficient 6-shooter. Found a car radio antenna with one section that perfectly fit a .22 but stopped the rim. Scratched up the chrome, seated it in the barrel, pried the halves of the pistol apart, and melted solder all along the insert. Held the piece by the handle in a bench vice and used a dowel to align the barrel insert.
Ditto for all the revolver chambers (6 of 'em). Took the slug and powder out of a .22 short, stuck it in the chamber, rotated it to the firing position, tied a string around the trigger, stood behind a door, and tried it.
Didn't have to fix a damned thing on it, 'cept that I never got one of the cylinders to line up right. Looked good, but just wouldn't fire . . . kept a spent hull in it. Pretty accurate up to around 20 feet or so, but I never tried anything bigger than a .22 long in it . . . didn't know if the barrel could handle a long rifle.
Younger brother of a classmate of mine bought it from me in 1957 for $25, which was considerable in those days. Dumb shit actually held up a diner with it. Then he took it to school with him one day and managed to fire the damned thing in class. Wound up doing 2 years in state prison. Said he made the gun himself, which the cops believed since he had used the model to make a couple more.
Also made a shotgun outta a 2 X 4, a piece of pipe, a hunk of rebar (as both firing pin and recoil suppressor), and one strong-ass piece of inner tube.
Crowning achievement, tho, was the beer-can cannon for launching billiard balls. Actually worked, but a pain in the ass to prep for firing. -
10/3/09, 4:42 PM
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B....... said...
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Good story ET - do you do mail order?
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10/3/09, 8:35 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Excellent. Mentally filed in my Warsaw Ghetto cells.
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10/4/09, 1:00 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Hmmm, ET, I knew a guy at Ohio State who had a cannon that fired soda cans, or whatever else you wanted to cram in it. Is that you Yonce?
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10/4/09, 1:30 PM
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Ride Fast said...
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[...] DIY: Guns [...]
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10/4/09, 1:41 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I've done a bit of research but need to have it verified by a lawyer. As I understand, you may make ONE firearm of a unique design without breaking any law as long as you stamp some kind of id on it, it complies with existing laws (re: barrel length, etc.) and do not sell or even give it away. This is to permit inventors to make prototypes. Before you make #2 of the same design you need to become a licensed manufacturer. You could make several, as long as they are different, marked, and call them prototypes.
Don't do this and point at me if you get in trouble.
AWM -
10/5/09, 11:09 AM
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