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i took off about as much as i was comfortable with to fix some ugliness that happened during turning the can.
Ultimately I'm not as happy with it for the main reason of how the end caps were welded on. I took it to a machine shop that does some great work near me. I ASSUMED that a good machine shop had a good welder... Shouldn't have done that. I specifically asked for it to be tigged and when i came back to get it, it was clear that it was migged. It was a structurally strong weld, just very ugly and took a lot of work to clean up. You can still see it all in the final product and even though i glass blasted it the welds are hard and didn't match the rest of the cans texture.
Aside from that im happy with it performance wise. It's really a lot quieter and safe to shoot w/o hearing protection. I was worried about the final thickness so i put the ears and eyes on in preparation in case it came apart. I did a full auto mag dump *cough* bump fire *cough* and it performed great. That's about as much abuse as i would ever put it through and don't plan on using it on a shorter barrel.
If it ever comes apart then lesson learned. Just hoping the big blast chamber is my saving grace. Final weight is 17.875oz, so a good little bit lighter than my .308 can
The host is a yhm lower and stag 3g upper (vortex viper pst 1-4x optic, warne mount, giessele sd3g flat trigger for those concerned with any thing else)
I really like how the glass bead finish came out
I had got the yhm end cap from a guy that makes parts for those "solvent traps". He was cool enough to just send me an unfinished one without threads so i just turned it down and hollowed it out so it serves as the end cap and blast chamber spacer
These are the internals. Ignore the tall spacer to the right. That was before i decided to go the QD route. I decided to use the same 60 degree cones like my 308 can since they worked so well.
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