Part 2 of building my soda can AR 15 lower. In this video I go through the most challenging machining process of the build, threading the receiver for the buffer tube. Sure, I could have just bought a tap, but seemed like a cop out to me. Plus, paying $50 for a tap when the lower costs about $50… Nah, I had to thread it manually. Lots of challenges involved, but we got there in the end! Thanks for watching!
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4 jaw chuck? Abom would be proud
Thats alot of work and tools why dont you just buy a 80% you have all the tools and time lol
How many hours approximately does this take from start to finish?
Your editing is really good. I'm glad you take the time to get all different angles and explain everything. Please don't change your recipe lol. Great work
So many tools I didn't know that existed
How do you do multiple passes on the thread cutting without destroying the previous pass?
Very admirable that you show mistakes or problems, that makes you a class act and not a phony.
Great craftsman.!!
That was some pretty good machine work with them threads I was impressed
Getting this old tony vibes from this, i didn't really care about the gun itself but the machining got me hooked
Use a crayon on the raw casting to fill in the little voids and the indictor will be more stable.
4:29 seriously looks like piece was gonna crash.
Why?
Dude… how is it possible that u have only 8.000 followers?!?!? Awesome content! The best ever
Man… I LOVE this so far. I've been thinking about casting some brass gun parts as I've been getting some experience casting over the past 2 years. But I see some problems and I'd like to respectfully point them out. In the casting video, I noticed a few things you could have benefited from like vent holes, but you pointed out most of them (so I won't harp on those). And that makes your videos exceptional. You showing your failures is incredibly useful for everyone watching. And it takes humility that proves the quality of your character.
I will say, your sprue/runner could have been improved and using risers would have negated the shrinkage. But I'm sure you know this by now. My earlier attempts were much more horrid, so no hate!
The thing here that pains me is at about 4 minutes, when you start running the casting on the lathe, something doesn't sit right with me. I'm not sure how/if you indexed the part or cross checked it off camera, but it doesn't look like it's running true. Unless the faces of your casting are way off center. Putting the video on .25 speed, It looks like it's running really deep into the mag well side. I'm no machinist by any means, but something looks off to me.
Anyway, keep the videos coming. You earned a new subscriber! This stuff is my day to day life, so I love seeing other people doing this stuff! I'll be watching!
Love the bent drill bit improv' 😁
music outro ?
i may have missed something, why couldn't you just use a carbide tip to make the threads? once i saw you make one out of the drill i was like wth lol.
“Oh I saw this work on click spring”
super glues aluminum on the lathe
Surprisingly this is very interesting and i should study for my test that i have tomorrow
looks like you put at least 50 bucks worth of effort into threading the buffer tube.
you cant take our guns if we can make our own LOL
Soon haha. I need a few more things to really have a shot at it.
EXTREMELY informative. Started at video 1. Going to take all this info in.
You did a great job but with the threading you could have turned your compound to the backside and threaded that way
i have never before seen a bent drill bit, only broken ones
"Liberal media sees this" What is this? Terrorist training?
Turn you boring bar upside down and move your compound rest 90 degrees to the other side for that clearance, spin the spindle in the opposite direction and thread on the far side of the inner circumference.
a more accurate thread cutting method is to never disengage the feed screw. Just run the lathe forwards and backwards with feed engaged but the tool disengaged on the reverse run.
REEEEEEE…. BAN ALL SODA CANS 😀