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VG1-5 magazine release button.
In this post we are going to show you how the magazine release button is made. We start with a laser cut washer. Okay over 100 laser cut washers. Then run them through the pressing tool that forms them...
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Weekend Update 1-25-15
It is 6 P.M. on Sunday and I am done. Most of this weekend has been spent on the VG1-5 project. I finished all the small screws ,200, with the final op. Next will be Parkerizing. The medium and larger...
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Magazine manufacturing
In this post we are going to look at making a magazine. In this case a 22lr pistol magazine. This magazine was stamped out on a progressive stamping die. In a machine that would look like this. Not for...
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Gun Lab update
Not a big post for today, just an update on the projects we are working on. First and most important is the VG1-5 project. I received a call this afternoon late that the firing pins can be picked up...
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Making the VG1-5 cocking handle
Sunday was spent bending all the cocking handles for the VG1-5 project. These are the steps necessary to accomplish that task. step 1 Step 2 step 3 step 4 The complete process. This is the video taken...
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Weekend update and the fun of machining
Nothing really exciting to report. I spent the weekend machining large pieces of metal into smaller pieces. We have shipped the test MP-44 trunnions to Pete and while we are waiting for his report back...
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AR-180b upper receiver
Here At Gun Lab we actually have a number of projects going on. While we are waiting for our heat treating to come back for the VG1-5 and AR-180b parts we started on the AR-180B upper receiver. This...
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Pressing the rear cap for the VG1-5 rear housing
This post deals with pressing the cap for the upper housing. We start with a laser cut blank that has been de-bured. And using the pressing tool. We end up making the cup that going into the rear upper...
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Building an MP-44 semi part 2
This is the second in a series of post of Pete, a friend of gun lab, building his semi-auto MP-44. From our previous post you could see the absolutely dismal condition of the cut up receiver pieces...
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Building the semi auto MP-44 part 4
This post deals with just one of the small stampings that goes into making a MP-44. he part being make for this post is the sheet metal reinforcement for the back of the magazine well. This simple part...
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