Welcome.
Hope your customers don't find you too much of a know-it-all after hanging out here.

Not sure how it works for manufacturers, but for individuals any work on the tubes ends prior to approval would be a violation. Commercial engravers who do NFA engraving require that tubes be sent to them with the ends non-machined. Your "tubes" would become silencers as soon as you thread...

I would contact "fidilis firearms" or one of the sellers on
GunBroker that regularly list NIB colt uppers.

If you are not ready to upgrade to a bigger lathe.
Find a local shop to internal thread your tubes
and use your mini to make your internals.

Sweet......Nice Toys!!!!

I tell my wife that my collection is old enough to breed on it's own.
How's that working for you?

Those idiots that wanted the shotguns.....one of them REQUESTED a "game changer".
I dam near pissed my pants.
I'm sorry but that show is hilarious.

A design built in stainless steel will outlast you.

Alternating gives a less restrictive path for gases moving forward
because the next scoop is in that path when the baffles are alternated 180.
I've learned to drop my K's in the tube randomly.

Who is their right mind would let them do a 1911! Much less Hornady and Brownells! They got their company names mentioned on a prime time TV show :shock: , and also during all the promo's for that episode ......and don't forget future reruns All for the price paid (if any) for the weapons provided ...

Nice......Very Nice!!!!

Very Nice!!!

I would put a Dater hole in the first K, if it was mine.

gr8smiles wrote: Decided to run them all night while I slept.

I've been running mine for 2 hours and drain off the dirty water/soap.
Run another hour with fresh water/soap and internals are perfect.
But then again I only have 500 to 800 rounds on them.

During the RUSH in '86.....form 3's were still being done in a week and form 4's were being approved in a month. At least that is what I remember. This year I mailed 5 in-bound transfers in mid-March, two Colt Thompsons, a Colt M16A2 and 2 for suppressor builds. The transfers for the automatics came...

No baffle strikes....
But a video may be fun to watch

I had a t-shirt with stamp in the 80's.....really miss it.
Pm when yours are available....I'm in for a couple.


shirts up to XXXL sure hope that's not a ladies cut

Halo's are Sweet.
I enjoy mine.....post a pic of your stick!!!

You're gong to need an expansion chamber (size??). The .45 is a big hole and I don't think sticking the extra K in there is going to help the way you think unless you were building an integral carbine setup with more length. I think gong the other way .... Bigger expansion chamber and six K's with p...

Wicked wrote:chrismartin,

Rock the f*Ck on dude, that is about a good an explanation as I've seen on the subject of .45 pistol suppressors.

Yea, and thanks for not blindly recommending KAC as well. Their time has passed but the 'Navy SEALs' generation can't seem to get over them.

+1

My bad....sorry for not understanding. I've never seen a 12ga round deform to the point it won't slide down the tube or be able to be chambered just from sitting in the tube long-term. I've seen rounds become tarnished on the base from sitting in a tube. Telling the user to breakdown the entire weap...

I'd make it all out of stainless.

Soak it for a few hours and push the guts out.
Using the 1" dowel will get the push forces where they will do the most good.

How about rounds in the magazine? I see no reason a brand new modern mag can't be fully loaded and sit for years before use. I like fully loaded, some like 28, what ever floats your boat.....be consistent. What time period are we looking at for deformation caused by mag spring pressure? I really li...

We all pretty much grew up with plastic shell cases. I can remember stories of the old paper ones getting wet and pretty much falling apart when they dried out. I've dropped shells in the water, shook them off and fired them. Heck, some may of ended up in the bag and didn't get used for another year...

Post some pics of the suppressors, better yet the baffles stack.
That will let those with the knowledge here better help you with what you've got.

For your location, your storage methods are top-notch. You can't get any better than sealed ammo cans with desiccant. If your ok with grabbing an ammo can as your heading out the door, that's fine.....but I always have a to-go bag with mags and ammo, too. I've always had access to a commercial vacuu...