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by Historian
Fri Nov 26, 2021 3:07 pm
Forum: Legal and Political
Topic: Jennifer Rene Psaki's Christening: Baghdad Bobbettte
Replies: 0
Views: 2530

Jennifer Rene Psaki's Christening: Baghdad Bobbettte

The less than stellar White House Press Secretary, a discredit to her Greek heritage of wisdom and Western philosophy, and her Polish heritage of erudition, e.g., Copernicus, mathematical logicians like Jan Łukasiewicz. Henceforth she will be given the sobriquet of Baghdad Bobbettte , carrying on th...
by Historian
Thu Nov 25, 2021 12:52 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Suppressor Cleaner & Solutions
Replies: 5
Views: 2620

Re: Suppressor Cleaner & Solutions

alordnapa wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 10:16 am The best cleaning solution is warm, liberal, tears.
+1!
And add: "... while on a one-way plane trip to a North Korean
're-eductation camp for Chuck, Nancy, Jerry, and the Squad, etc."

Be still my heart. :) :) :)
by Historian
Thu Nov 25, 2021 12:44 pm
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: Best cheapest concentric rod? What would cause a baffle strike?
Replies: 3
Views: 2466

Re: Best cheapest concentric rod? What would cause a baffle strike?

From an 'eon' of experience: 'Cheapest' and 'Concentric Rod' are mutually exclusive terms when it comes to: your afety, not damaging and junking what cost a $200.00 ATF STAMP plus $400.00+ Can are in play. Old Balkan mountain mottos euphemistically said: A Tight 'Lower Sphincter' flatulates twice. a...
by Historian
Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:43 am
Forum: Legal and Political
Topic: bRacist Attacks on Beautiful Former MARINE Lt. Gov.
Replies: 1
Views: 2550

bRacist Attacks on Beautiful Former MARINE Lt. Gov.

'Winsome Sears makes history by becoming the first woman of color to serve as Virginia’s lieutenant governor... She posed for campaign ads in a dress and suit jacket and holding a military-style rifle." This former Marine exhibits the beautiful soul of an American who puts the lie to the vicio...
by Historian
Sun Nov 07, 2021 9:48 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: So how do they get away with this?
Replies: 1
Views: 1601

Re: So how do they get away with this?

Just a guess but the edict is " You cannot make the can longer which in turn makes it quieter than the original registered design dimensions" . No 'viagra' for suppressors allowed but in the words of a most dear departed WW2 buddy who used to say you are allowed to bring in a Mohel to the ...
by Historian
Sun Nov 07, 2021 9:42 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: cone math
Replies: 2
Views: 1510

Re: cone math

Cones cut on lathe with the cross slide usually set at 29.5º ( to give single point tool one side clearance). This is of course ½ of 60º the angle you are advancing the tool and makes it easier. Any other angle can be used as is seen in WW2 German suppressors that are at a steeper angle, like ice-cr...
by Historian
Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:52 am
Forum: Legal and Political
Topic: WSJ 3 Nov. 2021 on 2nd Amendment Case
Replies: 0
Views: 2626

WSJ 3 Nov. 2021 on 2nd Amendment Case

Ref Wall Street Journal p. A 10 Stephan Holbrook's " When is a Constitutional Right Not a Right? Article captures succinctly the issue of " When you need official approval to exercise it [ Constitutional Right]. That's what New York's pistol-permit law does. Case in point was after 1865 a ...
by Historian
Tue Nov 02, 2021 10:28 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: I hope to revolutionize suppressors
Replies: 13
Views: 3818

Re: I hope to revolutionize suppressors

Lunaticspawn, my compliments to you for accepting advice. It indicates that you are serious about your idea and not a dilettante who lets mythic thinking override reason. Some added factoids that will help: From embarrassingly lost USMC author's name ( forgive me Dick :) ): " Rule of Thumb of ....
by Historian
Mon Nov 01, 2021 8:07 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: What about 3D printed silencers?
Replies: 26
Views: 9430

Re: What about 3D printed silencers?

If it's like any other consumer technology, it's going to get a lot better and a lot more available. By the end of the decade you will be printing a can, running a tap through the threads just to clean them up and go shooting. Ancient Balkan compliment " May your words turn to gold ". Pol...
by Historian
Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:35 pm
Forum: NFA Weapons
Topic: ATF Says Braced HoneyBadger is an SBR!
Replies: 8
Views: 7257

Re: ATF Says Braced HoneyBadger is an SBR!

Yep, Orange Man was ...[ fill in] What a disaster he was! Low gas and home heating prices, low food prices , energy independence, 8,000 oil pipe line jobs, fracking, no Critical Race Theory teaching kids to hate our country, low taxes, low inflation, low unemployment for minorities first time in his...
by Historian
Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:09 pm
Forum: Gun Discussion
Topic: Alec Baldwin's Firearm's Negligence
Replies: 5
Views: 6306

Alec Baldwin's Firearm's Negligence

On the movie set of the filming of Alec Baldwin's low budget movie, poorly paid workers, sloppy safety procedures, a young woman's life was snuffed out by a concatenation of carelessness, arrogant stupidity, and inexcusable negligence in the handling of a firearm. Any youngster who has taken the NRA...
by Historian
Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:37 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: I hope to revolutionize suppressors
Replies: 13
Views: 3818

Re: I hope to revolutionize suppressors

I champion your enthusiasm and wish you success in creating innovative can improvements that will produce lower Db readings than present day extra ordinary products, e.g., DeadAir, Silencer Co., etc. Starting with your first sentence: " ...I hope to revolutionize suppressors with a very simple ...
by Historian
Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:57 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: What about 3D printed silencers?
Replies: 26
Views: 9430

Re: What about 3D printed silencers?

Thought, 3D printing a tube whose diameter is ∆x > O.D. of thin wall SS tube* inner wall reenforcing which becomes a strong liner. Then end caps threaded to central Don Walsh's patent with its central barrel extension, compressing end caps to complete the can. No moving parts. No Baffles. Easy to cl...
by Historian
Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:55 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Form 1 design for 9mm PCC
Replies: 5
Views: 2805

Re: Form 1 design for 9mm PCC

The serious problem of aligning baffles was beautifully solved by Donald J. Walsh Junior in his creative and unconventional patent* US5136923A. Central steel tube an extension of the firearm's barrel the length of the suppressor screwed at end of barrel with outer ring of and diameter end cap. Not t...
by Historian
Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:45 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Guidance needed on threading a tube
Replies: 6
Views: 2107

Re: Guidance needed on threading a tube

Tubes are rarely straight. You need to turn then bore them. I set them up in a large cats head to cut thread seats before I thread. -CL Following up on the Good Captain's sage observation one can see the problem of alignment is exacerbated with length. A little known solution that has been around i...
by Historian
Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:29 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Japanning Suppressor Instead of Cerakote?
Replies: 3
Views: 1703

Re: Japanning Suppressor Instead of Cerakote?

I similarly felt that it would not survive hi-Temp but club member asked what temp would Japanning be cooked at and would center fire be hotter. As ' Old Crows' ( You know who you were ;) ) used to say '...we pass on the G-2, you do what you have to do with it ... hey, those red meat balls on the fu...
by Historian
Tue Aug 17, 2021 5:51 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Japanning Suppressor Instead of Cerakote?
Replies: 3
Views: 1703

Japanning Suppressor Instead of Cerakote?

<< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBqgpdBNrt8 >> Ran across this informative video on a technique that gives hard coat on metal ... as in the old tools I saw in 1930s family's tool box. Fun playing in 1940s with metal planes with this coating. Still have one and it has stood time. Gave heavy wear s...
by Historian
Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:37 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: What about 3D printed silencers?
Replies: 26
Views: 9430

Re: What about 3D printed silencers?

Until the price drops to that of an Epson Printer many will still be using a lathe. Passage along 'gunsmithing kink': Having had quite a few cylinderical Neodymium Rare Earth Magnets from the making of a magnetic coupling for a forearm to an 16.5" .45 barrel on a 1911A1 I wrapped three in glass...
by Historian
Sun Jul 25, 2021 8:36 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: What about 3D printed silencers?
Replies: 26
Views: 9430

Re: What about 3D printed silencers?

The technology has progressed to the point where there are services under the heading " Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) 3D Printing " When Xerox introduced its laser printer in 1970s offices paid mucho thousands of dollars to have one, technicians came once a week to clean out the dang...
by Historian
Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:09 am
Forum: Legal and Political
Topic: ATF $200.00 Silencer Pol Tax is Racist
Replies: 1
Views: 5915

ATF $200.00 Silencer Pol Tax is Racist

Recently the President has been calling out the Jim-Crow evil Democrat's Pol Tax of the 1930s that was used to suppress the voting by minorities and women. Each time they wanted to vote they had to pay a pol tax which was excessive and dissuaded their voting. Voter suppression. A sudden epiphany .. ...
by Historian
Fri Jul 16, 2021 9:23 am
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: HPA Passage By Woman Power
Replies: 3
Views: 2549

Re: HPA Passage By Woman Power

<< https://www.historicalfirearms.info/pos ... -image-one >>

Hiram P. Maxims book "Experiences with the Maxim Silencer" front cover were women using the can.
It was a staple of women's shooting in that era.
by Historian
Wed Jul 14, 2021 2:03 pm
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: HPA Passage By Woman Power
Replies: 3
Views: 2549

HPA Passage By Woman Power

Woman are a major segment of firearms buyers from latest statistics. Why? Based on the marxist success in the corrosive defunding the police, their legal protection, and well deserved respect more folks ... except mythic thinking, safe in their gated communities, able to pay for security details ......
by Historian
Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:38 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Machining the Quietest Can Ever
Replies: 1
Views: 2486

Machining the Quietest Can Ever

I was imagining with this 1904 42" lathe how easy it would be to make the quietest can for my 1938 Mauser action .30-06, as quiet as the estimable PTK's "..it's not a BB gun sound you heard". O.K., it might be a bit long and heavy, but mounted on a monster truck it could work. :) Amaz...
by Historian
Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:22 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: Form 1 OAL
Replies: 3
Views: 2068

Re: Form 1 OAL

Are there any consequences in making a suppressor overall length shorter than the length specified on the Form 1 application? If memory serves correctly in the past on this site this was answered '...w.r.t.regulations,better to make it longer and cut it down since you are not increasing sound reduc...