Matt.Cross

TactiCat is hilarious. If you try to buddy up to him, you'll be rebuffed swiftly and with extreme prejudice. Totally ignore him and do your own thing, he'll insist on introducing himself within minutes. He's absolutely nutty, just like his caretaker.

This is going to take a while to do, some poor draftsman gave a lot of time and effort to the prints for this beast, but they're comprehensive!

I'll go over the prints and see what it'll take to CAD it.

Careful... You make it sound like too much fun and everyone will want a piece of the action. They'll be so distracted they'll forget to shoot your 6.5 Grendels.

I'll make you a CAD file if someone sends me a receiver, for reverse engineering of course.....

Hi Tom!

This has vastly increased the rate at which I drool all over myself...

... and the ol' willie retreated so quickly it banged it's head getting back into the bunker! Been there done that brother. It's bound to happen to everyone sooner or later.

That's what she said.

Jealousy is a bit much, envious would be more like it....

That's a great looking compensator! I love machine work!

Very well stated Ron, couldn't agree more.

Spit it out man! Finish that thought...

Ordered through Academy?

That was too cool!

Oh no, not gonna Bubba this next one. I've got more 1018 CRS than you can shake a stick at. Revision one is in progress.

That's BS, if it were Government healthcare that'd be fair, but this is free market stuff. I want my procedure!

I can't wait to try the field vasectomy, I hear the anesthetic is awesome!

Post up what ammo you want, I'll give you a great deal.

Exactly. No one is going to have to hear any lip about unsafe conduct, I'll gladly eject anyone that doesn't want to behave, and I get the feeling I'd have no shortage of help.

Agree completely, but with that said, if you see something that's cause for concern, address it right away or get my attention and I will.

Oh snap!

It gets better, I actually screw up and it's documented.... So I get the counterbores in (mistake #2), and right away saw that the 3/8" thickness, (and 3/4" finished length) on the workpiece was a mistake. There's not enough material between the counterbores and the 3 edges of the material as you see in the pics. This wouldn't be a terrible issue, but the radius on the finished part makes this untenable. There's just not enough material there to provide the needed strength I want in the finished product. This is where I realized that this was just a prototype, and revision 1 was in order. This was further confirmed when I attempted to finish the workpiece anyways, and the HSS slitting saw I was using self-destroyed when the tool steel work hardened. (AKA mistake #3) Oh well, back to the drawing board, on to Phase Two. I'm in the process of doing a revised version, stay tuned. *To be continued....*

Now, I don't have pictures of all of the process, but it is essentially this; I grabbed a piece of green scrap D2 tool steel (first mistake) and milled/surface ground it down to 3/4" wide, 3/8" thick, and 1 1/2" long. It was drilled & reamed with a 1/4" bore lengthwise, and 4 holes drilled in the top, two sets spaced 25/64" apart. One set of holes was threaded 10-32 to receive the Torx cap screws through the picatinny adapter. The other set was counterbored for 10-32 socket head cap screws for the wishbone. The above pic shows the workpiece before the counterbores were put in, the pic below shows the shoulder bolt that will connect the two pieces when the workpiece is cut in half. That last pic shows the radius that is going to be cut on the bottom of the cant adapter.

So I disassembled the wishbone and adapter... Those are 10-32 Torx cap screws, spaced 25/64 apart. I determined this by re-installing the cap screws in the wishbone once it was disassembled, measuring across the outside of the bolt threads, and subtracting the thread diameter of one bolt. So now I know what my center-to-center bolt hole distance needs to be. With this in mind I started on the bipodification.