willbird

Yea it sucks :-). Sometimes we are in hot areas and it ends up "15 minutes more and I do not have to come back up here". But that job the whole work area was hot. They have focused a LOT more since then on providing hydration and electrolytes. Bill

Well here is something for perspective. I found this review about my employer online. Now this person totally outed themselves, there is only ONE person who does that job. Consistently he plans jobs and does not order all of the parts needed, and or orders the incorrect parts. He acts out and threatens to murder his fellow employees fairly often and even specifies the tool he will use to murder them (we talk about those tools here), he has smashed the HELL out of his desk while having temper tantrums, it is falling apart from damage. There are over 1,000 hourly employees who park in the same lot that I do every day, their experience is varied, they have made decisions that have an impact on their experience too. Myself I have been just an "associate" for 1 week out of my 9+ years, all of the rest has been positions with increasing responsibility and commensurate compensation for that. But people who trained me on my first day are STILL in that spot and bitching about how they are treated there and what they get paid to do that work. They had 9 years in on my first day, they have 18 now, and they still end up where the wind blows them as opposed to creating their own future :-). I lol about "hot" too, I'd like to take those folks on an 8 hour tour of a REALLY hot area where I work ;-). "Hot" is when you pour gallons of fluid in during 8 hours and never take a leak once. Bill

I like mine a lot better with the Surefire brake than without, not sure what the neighbors prefer tho :-).

I know a guy who runs a machine shop about 5 miles from here. Drive onto his place you see a dairy barn, old school tall barn designed for loose hay not baled hay. The barn is full of production lathes and mills. Some of his work was repeat jobs for decades, one job he ran once a year, kept the screw machine in another building until the month he needed it for that annual run of parts, then moved it in and out with a forklift, til next year. Anyway over a 6 month period 90% of his repeat for decades automotive work just vanished, went to Mexico then to China. That was 2006, 2008 he started doing gun parts, Sherluk was an early customer...his gun knowledge and devotion was and probably still is a 10-22 his wife bought him from Walmart. Bill

From time to time I have been wedged into a corner at work and needed to open up a hole in case hardened steel. Mouth breathing people who design stuff decide "yea lets make this part as hard as the hinges of hell for no actual reason". The one tool that might surprise you is this one. Not the first thing on the table by any means, but when you end up "whut the eff am I gonna DO?" if you have a good setup and be careful to not over heat it (the end is brazed on and will fall right off if you get it hot enough) it will open up an existing hole in some stuff so hard that every other cutting tool ended up destroyed :-). Just line it up perfect and shoot it straight in there at maybe 750 RPM or so (just guessing). I'm guessing the barrels are Nitride and the surface is really hard (which is good). Bill

PSA will send you a box, usually within another box, but you have to order something the size of an upper ;-). Bill

99 pack of gas tube roll pins (I borrowed one)

I have used cases to create my own headspace gauge. Typically when I am doing a wildcat chamber for myself. I do cut the neck off using a case trimmer so I can be sure that the shoulder is what we are actually headspacing on not the case neck. Several times I had already bought 500-1000 cases of the same lot to use in the gun I was building. That said we have no idea if the mfg made brass to spec or not, in my case I did not care because nobody makes factory ammunition anyway. In your case using a case of one mfg and lot number may not put you in a good place for that next box of ammo from Mao mart. Bill

That looks really nice :-).

Yea that totally sucks :-(, after I read the first post I was googling the part and looking at it on their web page. Did they offer to replace it ?? I know with my AP Sig shorty there is a HUGE difference in recoil impulse between no brake and a Surefire brake, and that all takes place within the barrel where the recoil is created, BUT I have no idea what the actual recoil looks like on paper. The same recoil impulse (maybe 80% of it ?) must be created as the bullet goes down the barrel, then it is countered by the brake. I seem to recall seeing that something like 20% of recoil is gas jet effect after the bullet has left the barrel ?? There are some videos out on the net of 50 bmg stuff showing the rifle moving rearward, then the brake pulling it back forward on those cases, can eat up some scopes that take "normal" recoil in stride just fine. Bill

I'll toss it right in there with the folks who say they have an "AK" when they mean that they have a semi auto AK variant. :-). I do use "AR10" when speaking to the unwashed masses, they get it. "LR308" or "AR308" are better search terms if your looking for parts. Doubtful that I ever own an actual "AR10". Bill

Nice 🙂

"Grips Hi-Point, seafoam and peach Freddie Mercury commemorative $499+shipping" Dude can we see a pic of these ?? They must be killer :-). Bill

If so could you take a tape measure and dial calipers to it and make a sketch of the barrel contour diameters and lengths from where it pulls up against the upper ?? Bill

Looks really nice :-).

Kinda late to the party but I have a BCA 308 barrel, it seems to be capable of 1MOA or maybe even better (have not tried the good bullets yet). I'm very sure that there is nobody offering a better barrel cheaper ;-). Bill

Just in a general way I typically try not to say make a 3/8" slot with a 3/8" endmill....just from my experience both cnc and conventional they get upset when they are wedged into a slot, cannot think of a better way to say it :-). They will pull depending on direction of cut, if you had a 3/8 in there I'd use a 1/4 and walk it around ...if we were doing cnc we would roll out the radii on the end..manual we just make it a rectangle with really big corner fillets :-). Roughers also help a lot, you can bury them deep and they do not start to chatter and shriek :-)...but they need a finish pass after to make things pretty. Bill

PM sent.....I'd rather not quote their prices for them :-). Bill

Honestly if you buy a bear creek barrel building an upper might be cheaper than PSA uppers perhaps. Then you can use whatever upper the 80% mfg says works best. You just need a barrel wrench and a reaction rod.

They are a little cheaper buying 3 instead of 1, I'd be in for an 11-1/8". Bill

Correct anodizing the surface is actually as hard as sapphire. 70 Rockwell is the aprox hardness but you cannot use the rockwell test process. A HSS drill bit is about 60 Rockwell C. So proper anodizing is harder than an HSS drill bit and will ruin their cutting point. Spotting with a 120 degree carbide spotting drill will get through the anodizing, probably most jigs do not provide bushings to do that from each side ??

I did ask them what their “heavy” buffer weighs. Bill

https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-gen3-pa10-18-mid-length-308-win-1-10-stainless-steel-15-lightweight-m-lok-upper-with-bcg-ch.html Might be some good stuff, adj gas block, heavy buffer (I did not see a mention of weight) and they reworked the lower so a variety of BCG would not crash into the lower. Nickle Boron two stage trigger is OEM now. I'm kinda all in for Aero Precision now tho :-). Bill

I want to have White Oak Armament make me some gas tubes before I make any final decisions. I have not had anything back apart to make sure my shortened gas tube is 100%, drilling the cross pin hole in 304 stainless was a %$#& and the end result was not Swiss watch perfect :-). I need to let the checkbook catch it's breathe a little 😉 but for the final line up I really want one of these gas blocks. Bill

The slightly heavier carrier is balancing out the slightly lighter buffer IMHO. Fired a box of Tula 3 rounds at a time and the final 5 and still had a few times it did not lack back empty. Will break it in more and evaluate. Really have no desire to burn a lot of Tula in barrels that have proven accurate, but on the other hand it is cheap and avail, and no need to chase the fired brass :-). Bill