suscribed to this, i love seeing builds like this.

awesome cant wait to see more progress on this.

Email sent. Thanks for taking the time to look at the list.

That baby needs the KAC Accesory Rail and the railed top cover, so you can slap a good red dot to complete the look.



Tagged for furhter posts.

This is gonna be sick, I look forward to watching your progress!

I wish I had friends like you.

Sweet! It's evolving!

Yes, I decided to leave off the magazine well. I was told, by someone who builds them for a living, that it is more trouble than it is worth. Plus that's a few less parts I need to buy.

I don't know if this will be helpful or not...but here is a list of things I have learned so far on this build.

1-Get a complete set of prints and the TM for the weapon before you start. The prints are in Metric. The TM has a complete parts list by group and part #'s are very important.
2-Buy the most complete parts set get you can get, even if it cost a little more up front it will save you time and money trying to track down all those little springs, parts and peices.
3-Buy your channel, trunion, bridge and rails as a set from one person if you can. All channels are not cut or bent to FN spec's and may need to be modified to fit.
4-If you do buy the channel seperate, get one that is a complete as possible, machining all the holes and cutouts is hard if you don't have the right equipment.
5-If you are doing a SAR, US Machinegun Armory has all the SA parts for a well tested, functional, closed-bolt, hammer fired system. Lots of support from them during this build.
6-Some parts need to be heat treated after machining. Your local machine shop may offer this service.
7-If your not going to register your weapon as a SBR, have the flash suppressor permanetly attached to the barrel by a professional gunsmith to ATF requirments.
8-Measure twice, cut once and don't rush. I buggered up a perfectly good charging handle rail by not measuring properly before I started cutting.

Ok...more work done on the channel. Finished the ejection port bend, I had to heat it up to get it pliable the I hammered it into the right shape and angle. I left myself a little material to mill it back to FN spec's for clearance to the Op-Rod group. Also cut the lower weld hole for the trunnion and the cut-out for the vehicle mount. Note to self: Wire wheels spin across a shop like angry little monsters when they jump out of the chuck in your drill press.

Ill give you $39 to make me one. Pleeeeaaase?

Nice work so far!

My first post has an updated cost for the project to date. I can't account for the hours spent online looking for parts, that's the fun part, but I have less than 4 hours of actual machine shop time into it so far. The weld up and fitting will be a few more so I figure a total of 8 hours of shop time at $50 per hour witll be around $400 I would pay myself. Even adding that into my current total and cost of final finishing I should come in at $6,000 Considering they retail for 15K for SA I think that will work just fine for me. I looked at the shrike upper for about the same as I am doing this build and decided it would be more fun to have clone MG. Side note, if anyone needs their channel finished, shoot me a PM. I have all the prints and machining fixtures now and would be happy to help out.

Amazing work.

I wonder if it will bump fire when completed, and if a slidefire stock could be used...