homemade silencer

[alex_152]

hello im am going to build my own silencer i really need some tips like what material i would use.
mayby som drawings to. i am going to use it om my 6,5x55 and i am not going to use a muzzle brakes. i want it to be quiet and durable. thats the design i am most intressed in.
sorry my bad english i am from sweden.
http://www.google.se/imgres?q=suppresso ... 29,r:4,s:0

[vz58]

What tools do you have access to? Mill,lathe,welders?

[alex_152]

What tools do you have access to? Mill,lathe,welders?

i have acces to welder, lathe.

[SRM]

As far as materials go, 316 stainless is pretty common.

[PaulNoiseLess]

Hi,

Follow this link: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=79895

Wicked is compiling there all Form 1 Can builds so far. For sure you'll find something similar and usefull Canss for you Krag.

Best,

Paul

[ranb]

Here is what my 308 silencer looks like. It is a 1.75" x 9" 304 stainless .050" tube with welded end caps. The baffles are 304 about .040" thick with a blast baffle about .080". The bore varies from about .340" to .380"



Ranb

[alex_152]

Here is what my 308 silencer looks like. It is a 1.75" x 9" 304 stainless .050" tube with welded end caps. The baffles are 304 about .040" thick with a blast baffle about .080". The bore varies from about .340" to .380"



Ranb

do you have spacers between the baffles??

[ranb]

The spacers are shown as green lines and are only between the last two baffles and in the blast chamber.

Ranb

[delta9mda]

the cone is the spacer

[ranb]

Both cone baffles have small spacers machined into them.

Ranb

[silencer_kid]

if the baffles stack like that then you need gas ports to allow the gas into the other areas like this:

[ranb]

They do. I also have a port in each K baffle in front. I've abandon K's for center fire rifles, using clipped cones now.

Ranb

[whiterussian1974]

Ranb: You've got a good design. Just currious why you used the spacer in the second to last chamber? Many builds tighten the spacing near the end.

[ranb]

It was a way to adjust the length of the blast chamber. I don't remember how it actually came out on the lathe, I sometimes deviate a lot from the drawings I make.

Ranb

[whiterussian1974]

It was a way to adjust the length of the blast chamber. I don't remember how it actually came out on the lathe, I sometimes deviate a lot from the drawings I make.
Ranb

The first spacer should have adjusted the blast length.
Do you have a link to your build here?

[ranb]

I thought I had posted about that build, but I couldn't find it.



Here is a 5.56 build I helped a guy with. It uses a similar cone and K baffle arrangement. I'll be going with a cone/spacer build for my next 5.56 and 300 blackout builds. I have to come up with a suitable design for a 50 spotter-tracer in the near future. It will probably be a 2" x 14" can similar to my 50 bmg.

Randy

[whiterussian1974]

Beautiful work, but strange vent hole placement: near bottom of skirt instead of opposite waist; and low down on the mouth instead of at the lip. How did it perform compared to traditional placement?

I particularly like your blast cone. Lots of turbulence.

[ranb]

No idea, no meter here. Few silencers to compare to also. Owner likes it though.

Randy

[whiterussian1974]

If 5 or more people have heard them 1 after the other, then that is a statistically significant sample.
Most of us have 2 meters arranged at 180*. Hopefully there were several people at the range and you shot multiple units. People tend to gather 'round suppressors. So hopefully you attracted a group and queried them as to their observations.

[ranb]

I don't attract much of a crowd anymore as compared to ten years ago when I let police officers op check my cans; before the attorney general wrote and said that they were not actually exempt from prosecution (pre-2011) for using them. I have compared mine to a few commercial cans, results were mixed. Your idea is a good one though.

Randy