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Hey Rich,
Thanks to you and your family for hosting this great event! I know that I learned a lot by helping others. I was sorry to leave you and Tanker, but my eyes were going crossed!
I think that I left my red Craftsman vice clamped to one of your work benches in the shop. Take a look for me will ya? I will give you a call later this evening!
It was great to meet this bunch of guys. I really enjoyed talking with Steel Core, DYI, Tanker; everyone really! I think that we got a lot accomplished in the space of time that we had. I came away wanting to make more jigs to make pin pressing safer ,easyer and less time consuming! My little pin pressing aid failed after pressing just one AMD 65 barrel pin! It turned out that the bolt that I used was not heat treated at all. I crushed the aluminium cap a little getting the bent pin out of it.
We also found that the short pin from xebec press kit was pretty soft too. I think our welder "Dew" made a pin out of the broken end of a 1/4" punch. I ground down the end of that piece so that it would fit the pin holding accessory piece, and we used this set up for the rest of the time we pressed barrel pins out.
I was thrilled to help several guys bend flats using the 555th jig. I got a chance to heat treat several ejectors. Dew welded my AMD 65 muzzle thingy to my barrel. I got to use Pinker's rivety jig it to crush the last two of my front trunion rivets. I got to make a couple of spacer tubes! (Thanks hcpookie!) I got to watch as several bottom rails were spot welded in place. I got to help several people crush the trigger guard rivets using the trigger guard rivet jig.
(I took a couple of pictures. I will try and post them on this thread when I find the cable to connect the camera to the computer!)
I was pretty tired by the time I got home but I could not sleep! I had so much fun! I can't wait til I get to finish what I have started!
Yours,
Thumb Clip Pull Pin.
Thanks to you and your family for hosting this great event! I know that I learned a lot by helping others. I was sorry to leave you and Tanker, but my eyes were going crossed!
I think that I left my red Craftsman vice clamped to one of your work benches in the shop. Take a look for me will ya? I will give you a call later this evening!
It was great to meet this bunch of guys. I really enjoyed talking with Steel Core, DYI, Tanker; everyone really! I think that we got a lot accomplished in the space of time that we had. I came away wanting to make more jigs to make pin pressing safer ,easyer and less time consuming! My little pin pressing aid failed after pressing just one AMD 65 barrel pin! It turned out that the bolt that I used was not heat treated at all. I crushed the aluminium cap a little getting the bent pin out of it.
We also found that the short pin from xebec press kit was pretty soft too. I think our welder "Dew" made a pin out of the broken end of a 1/4" punch. I ground down the end of that piece so that it would fit the pin holding accessory piece, and we used this set up for the rest of the time we pressed barrel pins out.
I was thrilled to help several guys bend flats using the 555th jig. I got a chance to heat treat several ejectors. Dew welded my AMD 65 muzzle thingy to my barrel. I got to use Pinker's rivety jig it to crush the last two of my front trunion rivets. I got to make a couple of spacer tubes! (Thanks hcpookie!) I got to watch as several bottom rails were spot welded in place. I got to help several people crush the trigger guard rivets using the trigger guard rivet jig.
(I took a couple of pictures. I will try and post them on this thread when I find the cable to connect the camera to the computer!)
I was pretty tired by the time I got home but I could not sleep! I had so much fun! I can't wait til I get to finish what I have started!
Yours,
Thumb Clip Pull Pin.