How REAL guns are made...with grace and style

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How REAL guns are made...with grace and style

Post by Noisydad » 04 May 2015, 7:50 pm

I think you'll enjoy this video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lui6uNPcRPA
There's still a few of Wile. E Coyote's ideas that I haven't tried yet.
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Post by bigfellascott » 04 May 2015, 8:53 pm

WOW - that's some interesting video there, amazing how they make the barrels!
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Post by Supporter » 05 May 2015, 1:45 pm

Great film.

That opening scene with two guns hammering out the iron almost seems like something out of fiction these days.
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Post by Lorgar » 05 May 2015, 2:32 pm

I love this kind of stuff.

We're so dependant on technology these days I reckon most engineers etc. wouldn't know how to make something if they couldn't type the numbers into a computer and have a mill do it for them.

Just things like how they used the single size square reamer to polish the barrel. Peoples first though these days would be some high precision machinery, instead the guy just uses a hickory backing as strength and adds a sheet of paper between it and the reamer to 'increase' the diameter. So simple and effective, yet I reckon 99% of people wouldn't come to the solution like that.

We're losing that kind of lateral thinking ability I reckon.
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Post by KWhorenet » 05 May 2015, 5:59 pm

and who needs thermal insulating gloves, bloody thick finger calluses I bet
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Post by sha » 06 May 2015, 9:53 am

Lorgar wrote:We're losing that kind of lateral thinking ability I reckon.


Lots of amazing skills dying out.

See that glass blowing video of the buy making the horse that was posted here?
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Post by Seconds » 06 May 2015, 2:37 pm

Great share Noisy :thumbsup:
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Post by Gregg » 07 May 2015, 2:16 pm

Yeah great video.

The way we used to do things like this needs to be remembered.
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Post by AusC » 11 May 2015, 11:41 am

Excellent video to watch :thumbsup:
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Post by Korkt » 13 May 2015, 1:01 pm

How about filing the threads of a screw by hand.

Find me someone who can do that well and consistently today.
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Post by Yelp » 26 May 2015, 1:31 pm

Imagine doing all that work and then bulging a barrel or something.

Pissed wouldn't even begin to describe the feeling :lol:
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Post by KWhorenet » 26 May 2015, 1:35 pm

Yelp wrote:Imagine doing all that work and then bulging a barrel or something.

Pissed wouldn't even begin to describe the feeling :lol:


Just heat it up and a few wacks of the hammer then re ream it by hand for 2 days :lol:
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Post by ebr love » 26 May 2015, 3:39 pm

Get the apprentice to do it and go home :lol:
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Post by headspace » 26 May 2015, 10:20 pm

Kind of puts things in perspective a bit when people go on about semi auto's and 5 round mags being too small. ;)
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Post by Yelp » 27 May 2015, 4:18 pm

And they have to TYPE things into a CNC mill these days.

So hard on your fingers, life's not fair! :lol:
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