My shitty video detailing how we do some of the MARS base modifications from Remmy to Stiller:
Some still shots:
Some still shots:
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Gunsmithing MK13 Stuff....
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Very informative and interesting. Your videos are alway excellent! Thank you!
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Agree completely...LRI did a wonderful job with my Mk13 mod 5 (the above isn’t mine)
$900 phone and it takes video like its 2001.
I gotta get that resolved. Sorry for the poor focus.
I gotta get that resolved. Sorry for the poor focus.
Nice to see a detailed video of how the rail that I have my mod5 plans was made. Mine will be on a Stiller TAC300 it should fit fine, right? @LongRifles Inc.
Yesser. That is what they are intended for although Pandora's box has opened. Were going to be doing BigHorns here soon as well. Got one coming inbound as of today.
The 2nd op of this thing is pretty wild. I've spent the day working on the probe routine. It's a bit more complicated than the 1st op.
The trick with doing these is getting the brass plugs to cleanup as nice as possible with the parent features. In the past that was a manual thing. You "whisker" your way down little by little until the tool just smeared the anodizing. Slow. Tedious, and begging for a mistake to be made.
Now:
Bounce the probe off a bunch of stuff. Set those locations.
Run the tool over the top of the brass slug so that it's basically a machined tree stump sticking off the part.
Now probe the freshly machined surface and compare it to the zero value that is the top of the base.
Whatever difference you have, the next finish pass is a function of that incremental offset value. So (in theory) it now automatically cleans up 100% and its based on the actual tool used to do the work and it'll account for things such as the spindle warming up and growing, tool wear, the way surfaces growing, etc...
In theory. I've not cut a part yet, but I have the probing routine written and it checks out.
This all happens after the part is qualified. 5 axis is cool but I've learned its also at least 2 more ways to scrap stuff. . .
The underlying message here:
Get me a shitload of these to do so that all this work starts to pay for itself. lol.
The MARS / MIRS rails are somewhat hard to come by - would this work with Precision Reflex's NV rails ( same concept - built for Remington receiver contours - and "pretty " similar in configuration to the MARS ) ?
If so, the PRI night vision rails are readily available, cheaper, and work well. If you can configure the underside to match a round receiver ( i.e., Stller, Big Horn, etc. ) , it might give you the necessary market to pay for itself. I would be in for " several " .
If so, the PRI night vision rails are readily available, cheaper, and work well. If you can configure the underside to match a round receiver ( i.e., Stller, Big Horn, etc. ) , it might give you the necessary market to pay for itself. I would be in for " several "
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The MARS / MIRS rails are somewhat hard to come by - would this work with Precision Reflex's NV rails ( same concept - built for Remington receiver contours - and "pretty " similar in configuration to the MARS ) ?
If so, the PRI night vision rails are readily available, cheaper, and work well. If you can configure the underside to match a round receiver ( i.e., Stller, Big Horn, etc. ) , it might give you the necessary market to pay for itself. I would be in for " several "
It would be easier at that point just to manufacture the whole thing in house and just tailor them to those receivers. Machining parts from scratch is far, far simpler than forensically detailing individual features that already exist.
If you want to see a machinist pout like a little bitch, just make him rework a part that isn't to print. For all relevant purposes here, were basically doing the same thing; taking an existing component and romancing it (hopefully) to marry up with something for which it was never intended.
It's fun from a programming challenge perspective. This has cracked the door just a wee bit more into the world of macro variables. Now were actually editing fundamental machine parameters to get the probe stylus to move in ways it normally won't.
Geek shit, but cool.
Have a great weekend. I think I'm cashing out for the day.
