Fire control box

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I call this my fire control box & so far I'm very happy with it. The bullet stop area is filled with chopped up steel belted radials, lined with 1/4 AR 500, 1-1/4AR in the rear for added measure & its quick to interchange the receiver mandrels for multiple platforms.
 

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Good On Ya!

We've never met but I like the way you think and act.......

There are a bunch of whiney little biotches here on the board now who may well jump in and pick apart your stuff like they tried do last time so let me be the first to congratulate you on DOING IT instead of just talking about it.

Be Proud.....

Rock On!!

al
 
BTW, sorry to bug you but I'm in the middle of a pile of projects using AR500...... how did you cut your AR plate? I've access to water jet so I'm all set, but for most, this stuff is BRUTAL :)

I burned out a bunch of plasma tips and several grinders...

Have you got a place to order AR online?

tx

al
 
Have you fired a shot in it yet? With the expansion ratio of smokeless powder being somewhere around 10,000, please don't stand in front of door if you ever try firing with the door closed. That is a lot of gas that suddenly wants to get out of the box. Even one extra psi inside the box would put about a ton of force on the door.
 
alinwa said:
BTW, sorry to bug you but I'm in the middle of a pile of projects using AR500...... how did you cut your AR plate? I've access to water jet so I'm all set, but for most, this stuff is BRUTAL :)

I burned out a bunch of plasma tips and several grinders...

Have you got a place to order AR online?

tx

al
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I have a local fab shop up the road
& I have no idea what they use to cut it with.
 
I have fired a few it and the lid makes a little jump thats about it. Gas escapes under the lip of the lid entire lid.
 
Dusty Stevens said:
What are you gonna do with it?
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What am I going to do with it. I test fire everything I build & keep the brass for my self. That way if anyone ever blows them self up I have a working record and a piece of brass to prove safety.
 
Next question and a nasty one. How do you plan to prove legal tractability between a particular gun and the brass you fired in it? (or am I misunderstanding your intended use?)
 
The forensic bolt, firing pin, extractor markings on the brass would help.
F1
 
Sounds better than my first test fire box. I dug a 3' piece of 12" dia pipe into the sandbank in back of my shop, and rolled up a small worn rug inside. One shot from my 45-100 double rifle project covered me and the rifle in muddy sand from the rainwater that ran into the pipe!
 
Back in the early 60's I spent some time fitting rifle barrels for Flaigs Lodge down in Pittsburg.They had a 4"-6" piece of pipe in the shop that went thru the floor at an angle in to a dirt pile. When we test fired a barreled action we would grab the barrel by the chamber, stuff the barrel down the tubes,lower the firing pin on to the loaded round, an then proceed to smack the striker with a rawhide mallet. They did this many years with thousands of barrels with out a mishap. The actions were mostly 98 mausers and springfields. I guess luck played a big part in that process.

P.S.- Triggers were not on the actions,for the most part.
 
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