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Posted: 5/26/2015 6:43:15 PM EDT
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Doing some cutting/milling/filing/sanding to turn a modern 80% lower into a slabside. I used an endmill chucked in my drill press to remove most of the fence. I "pecked" it away with the endmill since I didn't want to put a lot of lateral stress on a drill press. When I got close, I switched to a file. I still have a lot of shaping to do around the buffer tube reinforcement, and I still have to remove the reinforcement under the front pin.
Not necessarily trying to clone a particular model, just wanted to make a slabside carbine with triangular handguards and a 2-position aluminum stock. 
Still a work in progress. I know NoDak makes one far better than I can hope to make, but I wanted to try it myself. |
looking really impressive
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Posts like this make me really miss my dad...he was an Industrial Arts teacher and loved working with Aluminum. I could just see him digging into 80%’s, modifying and having fun milling them out.
He passed away right after I made my first Mattel lower…and we had plans to have him join me on the next… 
OP – nice job and I realize my post was a bit off topic, but it brought back good memories of my dad. (Korean war combat vet) |
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Yes, I'm planning to do the pivot pin area. And I still have a lot of work to do on the rear. The curve around the mag button isn't perfect, but I'm at the point where continuing to mess with it will make it worse, not better.
To answer other posts: Fastswift, I'm glad you have good memories of your Dad, it's good to think of those who are close to us after they are gone. Getchasum, the upper is a Fulton. I thought about using a Colt 9mm and drilling a gas tube hole. How common is it to go that route? |
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Posts like this make me really miss my dad...he was an Industrial Arts teacher and loved working with Aluminum. I could just see him digging into 80%’s, modifying and having fun milling them out. He passed away right after I made my first Mattel lower…and we had plans to have him join me on the next…
OP – nice job and I realize my post was a bit off topic, but it brought back good memories of my dad. (Korean war combat vet) 
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I have several 80s lying around from different companies and I just chose the one that looked like it had the most shallow detent channel. At this point, I'm not absolutely positive which manufacturer this one came from, but I'm about 90% confident that it is an Ares blem.
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Quoted: I have several 80s lying around from different companies and I just chose the one that looked like it had the most shallow detent channel. At this point, I'm not absolutely positive which manufacturer this one came from, but I'm about 90% confident that it is an Ares blem.
http://i584.photobucket.com/albums/ss286/nfa1934/a544b235faa92ae038ebec2d5ccbfe11_zpsuaqo9xju.jpg And that is how the game should be played, gentlemen. Well done, OP. |
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