I'd say this fully qualifies as "redneck engineering" for sure! Has anyone here ever done such "gunsmithing" before? Am I just a tool snob?
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If it works it works 
I was a garage metal worker for years until my health started to give me problems with it. You use what you have. I mean if you don't have a Milling machine, what are you going to do to get those custom profiles?
So I will just say your a tool snob.
I was a garage metal worker for years until my health started to give me problems with it. You use what you have. I mean if you don't have a Milling machine, what are you going to do to get those custom profiles?
So I will just say your a tool snob.
Damn...that's exactly what I figured, but I can own "tool snob". :-) I can't say how many odd tools I made to do work on old cars, tractors, & trucks where I was to cheap to buy one OR back then it wasn't like you could search the internet and find one because it didn't exist yet. I still have a "socket" that I built out of pieces of 3/8" plate that I welded together to fit a mopar upper a arm ball joint. It worked, so I'm not above a little redneck engineering myself. Just never thought about doing it for something that goes bang.
Not sure I'd write this off as redneck engineering.
Less than 100 years ago, this kind of work would have been looked at in a small engineering firm as a challenge where they'd kluge something like this together as a proof of concept, and decide whether they'd stick with what they'd come up with, or get the in-house toolmaker to fabricate something a bit more 'professional'.
Most machinery and a lot of mechanical items were hand-fitted, but they lasted longer. You could look under an agricultural machine and find they were built with welded I-beams. People used to pour their own Babbit bearings with lead and hand-made forms.
Automation on tight-tolerance production lines have made the kind of event we see in that video rare, but custom jigs and understanding how to make clamping solutions that rely on chalk and paper are what you often have to do if you're dealing with repairs to machinery over 100 years old, if you want to repair it and not just throw it in the scrap.
Less than 100 years ago, this kind of work would have been looked at in a small engineering firm as a challenge where they'd kluge something like this together as a proof of concept, and decide whether they'd stick with what they'd come up with, or get the in-house toolmaker to fabricate something a bit more 'professional'.
Most machinery and a lot of mechanical items were hand-fitted, but they lasted longer. You could look under an agricultural machine and find they were built with welded I-beams. People used to pour their own Babbit bearings with lead and hand-made forms.
Automation on tight-tolerance production lines have made the kind of event we see in that video rare, but custom jigs and understanding how to make clamping solutions that rely on chalk and paper are what you often have to do if you're dealing with repairs to machinery over 100 years old, if you want to repair it and not just throw it in the scrap.
Can't find fault with what he's doing. I've done worse. Beats having $700 worth of FAL build tools laying about that I haven't touched in ten years or Remington action wrenches that have only been loaned to a friend.
not gunsmithing but there is a good movie called "The World's Fastest Indian". About a man named Burt Munro. In the movie(and if you read about his real life) he does a lot of garage fabrication.
You know it is weird, I actually really enjoy watching some of those youTube video(s) of dudes in India and other countries using super old tech to make things. Watching in awe "how did they figure that out" and "how the heck does that work" and "how did they not kill themselves doing that". Wonder why my brain drew a line at gun assembly with similar garage tech tools?
