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by calinb
Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:03 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Turning down Gr. 9 Ti Tube Wall Thickness
Replies: 2
Views: 1990

Re: Turning down Gr. 9 Ti Tube Wall Thickness

I read the post and think you should try to make the spacers yourself.He mentions using a mandrel,what if you were to turn and bore to reach the thickness you wish.What if you made each spacer one at a time using the thicker tube to hold the form before you cut it off.Maybe you need to normalize th...
by calinb
Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:43 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Turning down Gr. 9 Ti Tube Wall Thickness
Replies: 2
Views: 1990

Turning down Gr. 9 Ti Tube Wall Thickness

I've never tried to do it but recently found these comments in two posts by ECCO Machine. Here: http://www.silencertalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=156085&p=971144&hilit=magnum+thickness#p971120 CWSR is stronger, but if you have to reduce wall thickness, it tends to oblong badly due t...
by calinb
Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:40 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: QD idea I'm pondering...
Replies: 9
Views: 1966

Re: QD idea I'm pondering...

Well, that shows just how broken the patent office is these days. That most certainly fails the requirements of being "not obvious to one skilled in the art", as well as being "new and useful" as it is no different than the numerous other examples of ball lock systems from the u...
by calinb
Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:37 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: grade 5 drilling question
Replies: 34
Views: 5375

Re: grade 5 drilling question

My lathe goes from 90rpm to 240 so I between is not an option untill I upgrade to a vfd. Working the problem "backwards" from 90 rpm and 15 SFM I get a 41/64" drill bit. 90 rpm yields 11.8 SFM with a 1/2" drill bit and it seems to me that would be close enough to work well too. ...
by calinb
Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:08 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: grade 5 drilling question
Replies: 34
Views: 5375

Re: grade 5 drilling question

[ In my Google Drive I have a number of PDFs about a number of different manufacturing, gunsmithing, design stuff. One of them is Bill Webbs Rifling Machine Supplement. There's some information in there about a high pressure oil pump system for gun drilling that may or may not be helpful. Feel free...
by calinb
Fri Sep 05, 2014 4:38 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: grade 5 drilling question
Replies: 34
Views: 5375

Re: grade 5 drilling question

I keep thinking that a cheap $99 Harbor Freight electric pressure washer would make a useable pump for coolant fed tooling... I was thinking along those lines too--or maybe a small airless paint sprayer, which have pumps in the pressure range we'd need. However, I don't think the pump is the most d...
by calinb
Fri Sep 05, 2014 4:32 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: grade 5 drilling question
Replies: 34
Views: 5375

Re: grade 5 drilling question

I had no Issue but again was slow 115rpm and flood coolant and the inserts I used were uncoated. Yup--from what I've read, 115 rpm sounds about right for a 1/2" dia. hole using HSS/cobalt steel (15 SFM)! It's clear from reports on various forums that most people try to spin drill bits too fast...
by calinb
Fri Sep 05, 2014 2:08 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: grade 5 drilling question
Replies: 34
Views: 5375

Re: grade 5 drilling question

After discovering that I can easily face and turn grade 5 (I like the Arthur R. Warner T15 tooling), I have turned my attention to drilling grade 5, in order to enable boring. I have not yet drilled even a single chip, but I have spent many hours searching and reading several online forums and readi...
by calinb
Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:59 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?
Replies: 10
Views: 2258

Re: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?

If you don't deal with the high pressures and gas cutting issues related to the 243 wssm your work will be temporary.Try inconel for the first 3 baffles along with a brake and a long chamber. Inconel? Yikes! :cry: I remember Dr.K relating its challenges. I've machined some test pieces of the Ti and...
by calinb
Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:07 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?
Replies: 10
Views: 2258

Re: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?

What barrel length and what wall thickness on the tube do you intend to use? What grade material? My current 243 WSSM bolt action has a 22" barrel length, but I also have an AR-15 WSSM with a 22" barrel and a Krieger 243 AR barrel ready to chamber (28" light Palma). I'm planning to u...
by calinb
Thu Sep 04, 2014 1:23 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?
Replies: 10
Views: 2258

Re: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?

Make a jig to hold your cones after they're turned; set a ball mill at a given height, and make the same cut in all of them. My version of 'symmetrical' is that all the notches/clips/cuts are oriented the same when they're welded up. Once again, look at what is out there by the big names...they hav...
by calinb
Thu Sep 04, 2014 1:16 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?
Replies: 10
Views: 2258

Re: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?

Oh--I'm not planning to risk an accuracy degradaton by clipping the cones. This is a myth. Good to hear it's a myth. Thanks! I just read some claims here and kept thinking about how the condition of a barrel crown is generally regarded as important to accuracy and thought I'd forgo the clipping, bu...
by calinb
Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:02 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?
Replies: 10
Views: 2258

Re: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?

If max suppression is the goal, stuff as many baffles as possible in that tube. Clip them symmetrically, and adjust the zero as needed on your rifle. Thanks, MCKNBRD! By symmetric, are you recommending to just make sure the the "U" on each cone is symmetrically cut on that cone? Obviously...
by calinb
Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:46 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?
Replies: 10
Views: 2258

Multi duty can (243 WSSM can on a 22 cal.)?

I'm designing an all-Ti can for a 243 bolt action hunting rifle (supersonic loads) using 60 degree cones. From what I've learned here, it doesn't take very many baffles to adequately get this job done, using a long blast chamber and perhaps tightening-up the spacing of the cones toward "busines...
by calinb
Tue Sep 02, 2014 4:04 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Ti-Thirty Form 1
Replies: 41
Views: 8990

Re: Ti-Thirty Form 1

john.t.little1 wrote:
Yeaaaa tried to keep as much of that out the pics as possible :wink: you know just to be safe lol but thank you sir
The first clue for me was "Location: florida/iraq" and I second the complement!
by calinb
Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:38 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Anybody done a form 1 using the new online eforms service???
Replies: 48
Views: 12668

Re: Anybody done a form 1 using the new online eforms servic

I received my approval email. Will I receive anything in the mail ? Or do I just print out the PDF file ? I wondered the same thing after getting my approval email notice and phoned the ATF. Nope--you don't get an actual and official-looking stamp or any thing else via snail mail. You just download...
by calinb
Sun Aug 31, 2014 4:26 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Ti-Thirty Form 1
Replies: 41
Views: 8990

Re: Ti-Thirty Form 1

Decided to do my F1 .30 can in Ti and this is what i came up with: Wow--nice! Thanks so much for posting. I've been thinking along nearly the same lines for a 6mm can I'm planning (welded "thin" wall grade 9 tube, press-fit cones and spacers, etc.), but I'm not a welder (though I can hack...
by calinb
Tue Jul 29, 2014 6:14 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: 308/7.62 Design review
Replies: 16
Views: 10211

Re: 308/7.62 Design review

Also, I was able to do a comparison of clipped vs. not clipped. Clipped happened to be better for you but I'm not sure that welding the caps has a downside with respect to the clip or not to clip issue. Technically, if the clipped cones don't work as well as the un-clipped ones, you're still stuck ...
by calinb
Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:01 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Go or no-go lathe question
Replies: 14
Views: 2568

Re: Go or no-go lathe question

If you decide to try my single profile thread mill trick, check out the second to the last page here for speeds: http://www.sct-usa.com/pdf/SCT_catalog_609-web.pdf I suspect the pressure on the tube will be less than single point threading with a traditional cutter so your rest support may not need ...
by calinb
Tue Jun 03, 2014 5:32 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Go or no-go lathe question
Replies: 14
Views: 2568

Re: Go or no-go lathe question

I'm hardly an expert machinist but I always say machine work is only 10% machine and 90% machinist. A machinist can compensate for a marginal machine with a clever setup and plenty of patience. I've done a lot of work with 440C (annealed) and 4140 (hardened) on my hobby lathe and mill. Nevertheless,...
by calinb
Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:58 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Threaded K Baffle Monocore
Replies: 48
Views: 7942

Re: Threaded K Baffle Monocore

Can you please post some examples of the K baffles bending as described? Link>>> Watched a can get ruined. The wall is certainly thin where it failed, but keeping the baffles in tension might permit a thinner and lighter baffle stack than one that is held in compression between end caps. Seems like...
by calinb
Mon Jun 02, 2014 3:44 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Like to find old thread about OD threading tube for endcaps
Replies: 2
Views: 719

Re: Like to find old thread about OD threading tube for endc

Found Thanks for the help Capt and maybe a link....? I've been waiting for someone to (hopefully) provide that link, because I'd like to re-read that thread too. Lately I've been thinking that the only reason people avoid OD threaded tubes is they tend to be ugly. For a very small weight penalty, e...
by calinb
Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:58 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Happy day - stamps arrived
Replies: 4
Views: 885

Re: Happy day - stamps arrived

Approvals have definitely sped up! I expected to wait over a year, based on the slope of the approval lead time curve of six month ago, but what a surprise I discovered in the mail yesterday. Just over 5 months from BATFE receipt of the application to delivery in my mailbox. Sandra J. Snook was the ...
by calinb
Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:26 pm
Forum: News Stories
Topic: Utah shooters spark 20 wildfires -- and a gun rights controv
Replies: 19
Views: 1728

Re: Utah shooters spark 20 wildfires -- and a gun rights con

This doesn't pass the smell test for me. <snip> Sounds like some dolt set fire to the woods with their cigarette whilst shooting... and decided to "blame the bad gun" because they thought they would get in less trouble. Not believing the story here. Doesn't add up. I agree. Tracers? Sure-...
by calinb
Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:10 pm
Forum: Legal and Political
Topic: Attack on the First Amendment
Replies: 8
Views: 1357

Re: Attack on the First Amendment

This thing is full of so many holes that it should be unenforceable, and nullified, on the spot. Let alone the fact that it is directly contrary to the very definition of the 1st, in that "free speech" isn't a right so much as a protection from the government. As with all laws, if a cop s...