Thread 64159301

My grandfather has passed suddenly and I'm barely keeping myself from punching anything until my hands break.
I put this 1893 turk mauser .45 acp conversion together today.
Post your projects please, I need to focus on something or I'm going to crash out, 3 stents with a 90% blockage
shouldn't have been an issue in 2025.

My grandfather died the same week I lost my wallet. I was supposed to fly to see my grandmother, her only male grandchild, and spend time with my sister. I don't give a shit how you feel. You don't know what anger is.

>>64159571
im not op, but everybody suffers at some point anon, and i've suffered a great deal more than you ever have or likely ever will due to my illnesses, so we should all look out for eachother

>>64159301 (OP)
Same here. I've made terms with it and got to see him before he died, but it's hard to believe he's gone.
Anyway, that better have been a gun that was already fucked by bubba or had a poor bore. Any idea what kind of sights you're gonna put on it?

>>64159301 (OP)
I'm working on a semi auto suomi from a kit and my friend was helping me with it, but he left the receiver in his workshed and it happened to get broken into, and whoever broke into it stole the incomplete receiver
its strange though because it was just a metal tube with some threading on the end and some incomplete grind markings, so i have no idea why they grabbed that instead of one of the many expensive power tools laying around
i'm pretty mad about it though because that tube cost me $210 in all

>>64159301 (OP)
I finished an 80% 1911 today
I completely deleted the grip safety and sanded it down to the frame for a higher grip

>>64159862
Maybe he fucked it up and just told you it got stolen

>>64159885
he'd have to fuck up really badly on a portion that really isnt that hard to do (slots for the rear sight and trigger group, which any mistakes on would just be covered up by other parts)
and he said he'd pay for a replacement

>>64160004
Your friend likely now has a full auto Suomi receiver.

>>64160026
it'd be a massive pita to bore out that tube to make it fit the original bolt

>>64159668
It was a bare receiver, with just a trigger. I may be an amateur, but I'm not a hack

we found the receiver, my dumbass forgot i put it in his dremel case

>>64159301 (OP)
People die. All of us. Anger is an initial stage but without profit. Our first bereavement is practice for the next and the next.

Trips may be postponed and wallet contents reconstituted (I wear a surfers wallet tethered to my belt with paracord so mine never leaves).

Do whatever is wise, chosen coldly.

>>64159872
That's neat. Where'd you get the 80 anon?
I've got mixed feelings on the grip safety delete, but recognize that I probably shouldn't.
Did you buy a jig too, or just use existing milling exp?

>>64159872
a 1911 without a grip safety is like an angel without wings desu

how fucking retarded are you people to get angry about an old person dying? that's literally what they're supposed to do. they lived a full life, got married, had kids, had grandkids, retired from their job and enjoyed their twilight years. you are unironically subhuman if any aspect of this situations makes you mad.

>>64159301 (OP)
RIP Grandpa. May his memory be a blessing

>>64159571
It's not a contest, friend.

>>64166713
Everyone interprets life differently, and we don't know the relationship they had. Shut the hell up

>>64166803
>Everyone interprets life differently, and we don't know the relationship they had. Shut the hell up
No, this is some fagboy shit. This guy's grandpa lived a great life in the best country on earth when it was still a real country and this crybaby is angry about his entirely expected and normal death. In the good old days men would sing songs and celebrate the glory of his life. Fuck OP and fuck you.

>>64166881
you are so cool, perhaps the coolest guy posting on 4chan right now

>>64166890
My uncle died literally two days ago. Do you know what we did? We went around to his widow's house, got some good food, drank his wine and shared stories and jokes about his life. You genuinely need to kill yourself if you get angry about this sort of thing. Actual third-world behaviour.

>>64166803
Thank you anon, it doesn't help any but at least it's some sort of sympathy, I'm angry because it was supposed to be a routine procedure to place some stents, a procedure that pales in the face of what they cracked my grandmother's chest open years ago to preform a triple bypass among other surgeries because she wouldn't stop smoking till the early 2000's
maybe she was built different, but grief has eroded something in me

>>64166913
nobody cares lil sis

I swear to God this stupid fucking motorbike is going to make me insane.

every time I fix something, something else breaks!
why did I buy a ukrainian motorbike when there's a war going on?!

>>64159301 (OP)
you should put a suppressor on it

>>64159872
every 1911 that isn't a solid gi style hammer should be taken apart and FIXED by putting one on it instead.

>>64166913
Youre beung a dick retard. Idk wtf you get by thinking that anger isnt a normal part of the grieving process but you just sound fucking ignorant. Educate yourself and quit acting above someone over something so fucking normal you stupid little ignorant bitch. Its literally behavioral psychology on grieving you fucking mouth breathing twit.

"I never felt that way!" Sorry youre too self unaware to realize yes you have grieved that exact same way you brain dead viking larper piece of trash. Sorry youre too goddamned stupid and ill adjusted to grasp the difference between your experience and OPs but i am not sorry to tell you that if you think youre special or different youre sadly mistaken.

oooh this is how you know its good, when they start just posting without even quoting any post numbers. you KNOW this shits gotten real. shits PERSONAL.

>>64166913
You're not a real man and your civilization is a waste.

Anyone buy any cool parts kits recently?
Hardmode: only reply if actually going to build it.

I am awash in $115 g3 kits. I should finish this one up this week, I fitted the mag catch last night so the rear stock pin hole reinforcement is the only remaining 'big' operation

>>64159872
>sanded it down to the frame for a higher grip
should have undercut the trigger guard too

>>64172640
you need to get some rustolium paint on that reciever or its gonna rust

>>64172953
>painting before welding the stock pin reinforcement
ISHYGDDT

>>64172953
I'll blast it all again after welding is complete, before cerakote. I would like to parkerize first but my gigantic stainless pot is only mp5 sized

Here is my nearly finished WristWrecker5000 project

>>64159640
Sounds like you're defective and should die.

>>64175668
Already idiot scratched it...

Plugged the Hillary hole on my 686 today. Turned down a little stainless rod, cut the retaining groove with a threading tool and polished it. It’s a little below flush but I can make another one easily

>>64177655
The frame on the lathe was just me checking the fit of the plug

>>64159301 (OP)
They call that the fez whatley

>>64177655
>>64177660
very based

>>64159301 (OP)
i need a very slim red dot sight to put on my airgun instead of the original fixed sights. like i want to replace the rear wing with a red dot and remove the front sight. the footprint of the rear sight on the barrel is 16mm with 2mm of space on the left side and 3mm on the right side of the barrel. can anyone find me a 2 moa or smaller dot red dot from china (im poor as hell) that can fit that? i can make some extra space for it but i dont want to cut too much wood off. a normal RMR doesnt fit there sadly as most of them are 22mm wide or higher

>>64178226
im poor as in i can afford to spend max $100 on that red dot

>>64178226
i found this just now but it should fit good enough to not be ugly. my whole idea in this is i'm gonna replace the rear sight with pic related and then mount a flip mount magnifier optic on the dovetail, there is gonna be a lot of distance between the red dot and magnifier so i dont really know if it will create issues

>>64175668
explain

>>64180637
.50BMG 1911 upper
do I need to explain more?

>>64181491
Jesus Christ. pls come back to us a video when you fire it.

>>64181491
How much do you hate your wrist? Did you two break up or something?

>>64167234
Why did you buy a ukrainian motorbike when its just a bad copy of a german bike? You can find used airheads all day long man.

>>64181491
un-fucking-fathomably based. please post a vid of you firing it at some point

for me, its the mp28

>>64181491
holy kek
true k autist

mockup of a dedicated pistol caliber bolt action that hasn't progressed any further than the barstock sitting on my desk

>>64175668
>>64181491
un fucking real

>>64181491
Hot damn.

>>64187341
nice

>>64181491
Holy fuckin shit. The board isn’t dead.

bump

>>64159301 (OP)
>My grandfather has passed suddenly
Just THE LORD fixing one of his mistakes. Be happy that the world is now a slightly better place with one less WICKED soul bound for HECK

>>64194087
If you're trying to ragebait me, you aren't any good at it.
I'd throw hands with saint peter when I meet my maker, because in my opinion the lord's mysterious ways need to be corrected with a 24oz ball peen hammer to the skull.

Finally converting my slant receiver thumbhole stock M77 to a normal stock. I'm making the stock myself out of some scrap, and probably going to repair the receiver with some scrap steel too. I have a piece of sheet steel that's like .050", whereas the receiver is like .057" (nominally .060" I think). I think I can make it work if I can't find something thicker.

>>64159571
Oh wow, you experienced the exact same thing as well as a minor inconvenience, how heartbreaking anon. I've had friends and family lose people under genuinely tragic circumstances, and yet I've never gotten into a dick measuring contest with them on whos more of a whiny faggot. Seems like a phenomena pretty exclusive to mentally ill people on the internet

I'll work on a Browning B525 kit in 20Gauge this year even tho it pisses me off and I don't want too. I'll also be making a H&H sidelock, which is cool

>>64194373
Almost done making a piece to mate up with the existing trunnion. Will I fuck it up by rushing the last bit like usual? Find out on the next episode of Dragon Ball Z!

>>64199005
Every time I read through these threads it fucking pisses me off that I don't have a lathe and mill.

>>64201451
Mine is a tiny mini mill only barely better than nothing.
https://littlemachineshop.com/products/product_view.php?ProductID=3990&category=2122081981
Maybe calling it barely better than nothing isn't quite fair, any milling machine is a significant upgrade over no mill, but you really have to take light cuts with something like this. Wish I had more room when I bought it, would have gone with something bigger.

>>64201451
I finally bought a mill in May. Before that I had access to my dad’s lathe which is just a Precision Matthews 1640 with a different name and colour scheme. My dad’s got a big shop so he let me put my mill there otherwise I’d have no where to put it. Before I had my mill I’d have to dick around with a drill press and scribing lines and using files and shit. Having a mill is a real game changer

>>64199005
As usual, my lack of welding skill has given me a bunch of grinding to do, in this case very carefully with a Dremel. I'll spare /k/ the details.

Bumping so this thread doesn't die if there's another spamwave.

>>64181491
.50" barrel length too, I see.

Pic from when I bought an SKS from that Chinese made/Albanian used batch. Filthy. And someone broke the safety spring, of course. I think I was only able to get it out because it was snapped. Still trying to work up the courage to try and throw the new spring in. I think you might need to punch out a pin or two to do that, though, which is fun on a gun that hasn't been apart since it was made in 1960/1970-something. I believe the trigger group is matching to the rifle, too, so I have to be careful. Not to mention the retarded prices SKS trigger groups were fetching last I checked should I really fuck up.

Well even if I'm not getting any better at welding, I'm getting pretty good with a Dremel.

Totally forgot to post a second pic. That sear was fucking stuck. I honestly thought I got fucked lol. I think I had to tap it free or something.

one more, very filthy.

>>64159301 (OP)
Whipped up a light mount for my trench gun. Just printed plastic and spray paint for now until I feel like shelling out the bucks to get it milled or metal printed.

>>64159301 (OP)
I have no guns to post but I hope you heal and get better OP, good luck man.

>>64175668
>>64181491
Are you fucking

>>64159571
You were probably drunk or high

>>64181491
fucking based. if you still have hands post a vid after you shoot it
>>64187341
most aesthetic smg
>>64159301 (OP)
OP I think that's based on the .45 conversion. I have a .380 barrel from a Hi-Point and a bunch of PPK mags I'd like to do something with one day
>>64167246
he should

Alright /k/, I’ve been on the hunt for a cheap, irreversibly pre-bubba’d donor mosin for a project and I’ve finally found one. This goes one of two ways:
>Rhineland Arms stock
>glass bedding
>POSP mounting plate
>8x42 POSP
>Timney trigger
Basically a combloc bastard stepchild to my AI AT, pic related
OR
>obrez
>5x8x24 threaded
>brass grip cap
>maybe Timney trigger
What do?

>>64210214
I've thought about giving a 10/22 an AWP style stock; I say go for it.

>>64208999
Only change I'd make is to hide or remove the front most slot or two but that's just me overthinking aesthetics over practicality for future use.

>>64167246
Got to hold one of the reproduction ones. It was an absolute joy.

This thread reminds me to finish my warhammer models.
Problem is that ive been unemployed since march despite applying for shit like a madman and now im pretty depressed, I sent out an app to ICE so maybe I can bag some illegals and fund my plane addiction.

Also, ive gotten into a purity spiral with my stupid space man models and now I cant accept an "ok" level of painting, so now it takes me a day just to get one dude done, and my pile of shame is growing.

>>64209619
The Last EMS call ( he retired in 1996 a year before I was born and was driving ambulance up until his death part time at 81, 29 years) and the Honor Guard still has me fucked up, along with taking home his blaze orange faded fudd cap and faded orange wool shirt, it's the end of an era in my life that could have been avoided for a little longer, but I had been dreading since my teenage years.
talk to your elders, learn their stories. we are farther apart than we have ever been, go make friends with the elderly, it hasn't been the first nor the last elder I've lost that has been related to me or not, just the one that has hit me the hardest.

>>64213446
edit: I was born in 95'
the little old lady Was Betsy J. who lost her son (and another whom I wasn't privy to details) in the vietnam war, the family lost her house on one of those reverse mortgage scams. her daughter, later lost the battle with cancer and widowed her husband who does things with cigar boats, superchargers and fiberglass.
Betsy's house had 3 majestic pines at the front of her house I'd mow around the new owners had hacked down, I guarantee the stickers her children placed on the bay window were scraped off without a thought, to bring this more into context she passed around 2019 and remembered playing around the divot in m family's current front yard where a birch tree had been after it's initial construction in 1911

>>64212574
I like that idea. Will implement that and see how it looks.

Bump!

All I have left is this pic of the gunk that came out of that SKS. I have a project gun waiting to be shipped so no pics yet.

I'm going to finish welding the bit of bent steel to unslant my M77 receiver tomorrow night. I hope this thread survives until then.

>>64159301 (OP)
You think you have it ufcking bad, huh bitch? I learned how to sing the bleach intro in japanese to impress the gamer girl in my class and she didn't become my girlfriend. Shut the fuck up and stop bitching. faggot

>>64159571
My father had untreatable cancer for over a year and none of my siblings or him bothered to tell me until a week before he died. I didn't get to see him until his funeral.

>>64218239
>unslant a slant
thatsracist.gif

>>64210214
If you live in Ohio I have an mosin receiver I was going to use for a 450 marlin conversion. Can't find a gunsmith to do the work despite offering a stupid amount of money to some.. barrel was removed previously by a gunsmith who had no idea what he was doing. So the barrel shank is mangled to fuck due to him using a pipe wrench to take it off....

Then he put the barrel back on before he closed the shop...

> Have a timney trigger too...

>>64221546
Never mind read the part where you said you already found one.

> Anyone know of any gunsmiths who would convert my bubba'd mosin?

Anyone know a good bufferless 9mm AR upper? I’ve got a really dumb idea involving a bullpup chassis and a stern defense mag conversion on one of my cheap poverty pony AR15 lowers

>>64221546
>Can't find a gunsmith to do the work despite offering a stupid amount of money to some.
Gotta love that. Hoping my project gun have the same issues crop up; literally ream the chamber and maybe thread. Job's been done on countless thousands of this rifle so it doesn't take unobtanium ammo anymore (yes I have a decent unmolested example too but this one is literal bottom of the barrel of the bottom of the barrel).

>>64159301 (OP)
From a anon who has lost many family members from causes both natural and sudden you need to remember the good memories and the fact that he loved you, and wouldn't want you to hurt yourself because of him. Grieve, but don't do something you'll regret.

Well you can definitely tell where the welded part is. I guess I can only improve from here. For now though, I'm going to clean up the stock a bit and figure out how to drill a straight hole through the length of it without cracking it.

>>64181491
>that barrel length
IS THAT EVEN LEGAL

>>64223506
from OP, thank you all I'll admit i've had a few vodka fueled crashouts in this thread but I thank you all for your sympathy, I haven't felt myself being the same since I accepted he was gone, and It feels like a light in my eyes was permanently extinguished, every thing feels.. Wrong.
maybe I'll try to reweld that vz-61 properly tomorrow, rewelding an ak-47 out of bits and pieces of torch cut milled polish AKs was far easier, should have known the Czechs would be precise.
I'm not doing well but I'm still moving, I'm disgusted by the ways my so called family are handling the estate as well.

>>64223659
>estate
Wait until you see a 4th generation family farm sold off so your POS great aunt can spend the rest of her life on cruises and credit cards. Yeah there is a reason my GA had to flee from my state.

>>64223685
my great uncle Bill (the eldest son) pulled the trigger on selling the family farm "between the three living brothers at the time". 80 acres because "It wouldn't be fair for his kids because of land taxes"
the ancestral land, swamp, field and woodland their great grandfathers came from poland to farm and sold it for a paltry 200k and 20 year hunting rights, sure the current farmers are good people and love the original homestead, apple trees, guest shack and all the falling down outbuildings and all, but I'm starting to hate that colorblind architect bastard, because to me, he was complicit to all of this. he was the firstborn and supposed to be a leader, to be an example, and all he was was a destroyer

>>64189429
Make a modern DeLisle in .45ACP using wipes.

>>64210214
I have the weirdest boner. Give it front legs and a PU bolt and I'll take twelve.

>>64223547
You mean from one side of the receiver to the other? Put a wood spacer inside the receiver, so you're drilling metal > wood > metal.

>>64223659
>I haven't felt myself being the same since I accepted he was gone, and It feels like a light in my eyes was permanently extinguished, every thing feels.. Wrong.
NTA but I've had far too much death in family/friends and I feel that. Honestly not sure if it ever gets better. And everything is...best description I can say is changing. It sucks.
>I'm not doing well but I'm still moving, I'm disgusted by the ways my so called family are handling the estate as well.
I won't get into specifics but I just witnessed that same god damn thing. Person dies; they loved (thing) and won't get rid of it even though they haven't used it in 15-20 years. Reminded them of better times. Family all says they love (thing) and it reminds them of (insert parent(s)). Yet the time comes when they're both gone, I begin to wonder if it's poor taste to ask what they're doing with (thing) because it would actually be useful to me, and being very close by, would be very easy for me to pay them a couple of bucks for it (or god forbid give me it for all the help). Then the family who said they loved (thing) comes and starts cleaning out the house and wouldn't you know it, they hired someone to take (thing) away for a couple hundred bucks because it was "beyond saving" (repair cost ~$5-7k?) despite them all making north of $100k/yr as I heard it from their parents, despite them saying they'd have loved to get it up to their house as a reminder of their parents, all without asking me if I might know a thing or two about it or want to take a crack at making it work (as I desperately need something like that, especially for cheap). And they did that instead of saving it despite some of them inheriting large estates/sums from other family rather recently as I understand it. Being vague for whatever reason even though I know they don't read any part of this site but fuck does it piss me off.

>>64194087
Wierd ragebait post aside, why are you fluent in basedspeak?

>>64159862
.break in

shop broken into. thief took mangy jacket worn when chilly and a coffee can full of scrap brass pieces. left starrett, milwaukee, etc.

>>64223833
>wipes
I'm hoping silencers with wipes become more common with $0 stamps. Kinda want to try one out on a 22, though IIRC they're not recommended with HP ammo, which is kinda lame but understandable. Have a feeling that it could easily be solved only having one wipe at the end and both slitting and punching a hole big enough to avoid the edges of the HP though. Less effective than a normal wipe, sure, but a slit and cut ~.10 or .15 rubber capped hole is more effective at holding back gas than a ~.25 cal metal/plastic hole, if just a little.

>>64223833
Through the length of the stock without the drill bit wandering.

Why yes, I do bump weapons related threads. How could you tell?

>>64226142
Dude, same. Would be great for PCCs for home defense.

>>64226599
Best bet would be to clamp it in a vise and use a drill press. Next best would be to make a jig and drill using that.

>>64229843
That and I think it'd be cool for 22LR handguns at the very least. Or maybe carry 9mm; keep the dust and dirt out without having to tape over the endcap.