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Monday nights in the workshop

What else do you do when it's 9 degrees Celsius go in the shed and start drilling picatinny rails . Only got to finish 200 of them .
 

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I’d take it over the heat we’re getting! 97 F and 90% humidity here on the US east coast. I’ll be shooting pistol with my younger son in law, tomorrow morning. He called me to ask if I’ll be OK in the heat. I must look older than I feel.
 
What else do you do when it's 9 degrees Celsius go in the shed and start drilling picatinny rails . Only got to finish 200 of them .
looks like youre doing it the old fashioned way. in a mill drill no less.. thats wat ive got towork with. did you anodize them and cut the slots to. mabie i should snowbird down under when it gets hot here. of coarse id wanna stay when summer gets there to see the sights on the beach:)
 
looks like youre doing it the old fashioned way. in a mill drill no less.. thats wat ive got towork with. did you anodize them and cut the slots to. mabie i should snowbird down under when it gets hot here. of coarse id wanna stay when summer gets there to see the sights on the beach:)
Yes round column mill drill and it gets a hammering trust me . Yes mate do the whole process . Had a profiling tool made to do the sides of the rail. Then had another tool made for doing th radius for different actions aswell . But luckily a few actions have the same front and rear radius so didn't need to have heaps made . Also have a flat bed cnc router but need to learn how to do all the technical stuff to get it going
 
Sorry about the link I had copied a link to a nice Carhartt parka, but the picatinny rail will not go away. I have no idea if they damage crops or not, I have never seen them in the glades (rich farmland to the west of me). I see them in neighborhoods mostly. They carry salmonella, and my wife worries her Aussies with bit them and get sick. The most damage I have heard of is collapsing a sea wall trying to dig a cave to live in.
 
The black rail I'm currently machine was left over from an order . So just machining the area to machine actions at the moment . So waiteting product . All my rails get duracoated in house . Nothing gets sent out for any machining or finishing work
 
Profile cutter to suite action and rails in progress of being machined .
 

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