K Baffle Design (by 16 year old)

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paco ramirez wrote:...
I'm heading to GA within the year.
Going to work for a big company? :)
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Tanasoo wrote:
paco ramirez wrote:...
I'm heading to GA within the year.
Going to work for a big company? :)
Uh huh :wink:
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Hell yeah man, good job! 8)
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paco ramirez wrote::D
How about baffles? :wink:
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doctor wrote:
paco ramirez wrote::D
How about baffles? :wink:
Those and the Clutch (new ASAP) aren't being shown at the moment, because there's no reason to help Gemtech in their R&D department :wink:
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paco ramirez wrote:
tacticalmachining.com wrote:We have the SOT in hand and are looking at several designs. We cant get much time on the little barfeeder so we are going to buy an SL20 Haas to make suppressors on. It will have live tooling so we can turn the core, thread it, cut the mono baffles and drop a finished core.

We are selling the 80% lowers like crazy. We have a determination latter from ATF ruling them as a non firearm item.

I'll try and get some pictures of the machines making the lower receivers. The pallet changer has some really nice fixtures on it right now making hammers and triggers.
Very cool :D

I found the FFL, and I'll send you info within the week. Pictures would be great.
Go to my web site at taticalmachining.com and check out the pictures. Just let me know what FFL you will be using and I will send you one right out. Caliber engraving can be .223, 6.8, Multi, (As well as multi pistol and .223 pistol).
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paco ramirez wrote:
Tanasoo wrote:
paco ramirez wrote:...
I'm heading to GA within the year.
Going to work for a big company? :)
Uh huh :wink:
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paco ramirez wrote: Ah yes! The PAC Box 'o' Silence :lol:
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Nice work ! :) Emm how do you house this pretty stack?

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jacmorph wrote:
paco ramirez wrote: Ah yes! The PAC Box 'o' Silence :lol:
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Nice work ! :) Emm how do you house this pretty stack?

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Extruded aluminum and welded to attach was the original idea. It would be immensely heavy :lol:
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paco ramirez wrote:
Extruded aluminum and welded to attach was the original idea. It would be immensely heavy :lol:
Customize extruded aluminium to suit your stack gonna be very expensive. :)
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Great ideas, but it would be nice if you lived in my country, we have no restrictions on silencers and use them for game control also.
Labour costs cheap and high quality machine work on cnc etc also.
You can get custom made high quality machined cans with own designs costing complete at about $500
I think its worth it.
Keep up the great ideas
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Yeah, it would be pretty expensive :lol:

It would be nice to be able to do these without paperwork. Game control sounds like it would be a fun job.
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Post by Choog »

Paco,

First off let me say that your models are amazing. I've been using SolidWorks for almost 4 years and these are very well modeled parts and pretty complicated.

Secondly, just out of curiosity, how are you getting the dims from brand name cans (i.e. KAC, AAC, SWR). Even with great modeling ability you would need to be able to have the proper dimensions. Much more difficult than simply measuring the equipment with calipers.

Also you had mentioned earlier in the thread about sending part files. I was curious if you would still be willing to do so?
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Just from what you posted here, its obvious you have some serious skill

Great job man
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Thanks guys. I get the dimensions from the manufacturers websites. They usually list the length, width, and various other specifications which are the basis for the models. Other than that it's just a lot of good guessing and comparing features and their relations to other features.

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Paco,

Your design skills are breathtaking. Worthy of being included in a Heavy Metal [ now that I think of it, it is also a pun ] story.
The .45 barrel looks like the 1970's Barstow barrel.

Again, your skills and execution merit our applause.

Bravo.
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You're putting a 9mm can on a .45 pistol! Are you mad, man?!

Just joking - keep up the good work, Paco. Kudos.
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green0 wrote:I don't want to be a bastard or anything, but honestly, there's probably no point of secrecy, when you have a product in Solidworks that will probably never see a prototype.

CNC machines cost rediculous amounts of money, and Materials cost quite a bit of money. . .

Facilities have to be rented and utilities paid,

Fixtures have to be designed and built,

Welders have to be paid,

By the time you figure out that side, you'll realize that more than what crazy thing you can design, the worry is what can you actually afford to build-

All these things are areas that need to be explored.

manual and CNC machining, manufacturing methods, blueprinting, Welding, metallurgy, business operation, tax law, BATF forms and procedures and firearms law, Website and graphical design, engineering and Solidworks design <this part you might be ok with, marketing and sales, government contract solicitation procedures, and the list probably goes on.

CNC machining expertise alone is a lifetime achievement.

Government contract solicitation is probably almost a career field for one.

business operation is a vocation.

Sales and Marketing are career fields.

Engineering is a vocation.

By the time you figure it all out, Solidworks drawings of products are grand, but they aren't 20% of the company. I could design you a whole product line for a major company in four weeks. That doesn't mean s--t compared to what you need to make it work.

I'm just giving you a heads up before you find your dream shattered at the onslaught of all these other things that you don't think of at first.

Unless you have eight lifetimes to invest, or love worrying about a world of s--t all the time and working around the clock for an obscure and distant future payoff, you won't make it in this business.

You are a damn joke. Obviously YOU won't make it with your sorry attitude. I'd like to see you design something like this kid is doing on ANYTHING - Teksoft, Mastercam, Gibbs, SW, Autocad, ProE you name it.

If it really required 8 lifetimes to learn how to machine, then I guess it would be impossible for anyone to be a machinist seeing as how we only have one. CNC hasn't even been out for 30 years now, and you say it takes a lifetime?

You're a loser
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Thanks y'all :lol:

Here are some knives I did recently. Sort of a CRKT Hissatsu/Strider hybrid. I made the full length of the knife .25" thick, which is slightly thicker than the Hissatsu and the same thickness as the Strider Large Fixed Blade series of knives. There are minute differences in the following knives.

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Paco, you rule.
The weather's beautiful in GA this time of year. :wink:
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Very. Nice. Knives.
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Last couple times I was there, in September, the weather was rather exquisite. Perfect weather for moving in to a new place :lol:

Here are a couple more. By the way, the grips are canvas micarta.

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Can't forget the RMJ Tactical Shrike tomahawk model. No, I don't work for RMJ and this isn't their actual model.

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Post by tacticalmachining.com »

Nice work as usual. When I get my SL 10 lathe set up next week I'll have to make one of your cans and see how it works.

Tha hardest part will be picking one out of all of your designs! I am thinking that one that just involves turning would be the way to go, some of the milled designs would take a long time to mill out and I dont have much open time on my mills. I am getting rid of the EDM machine. it would be usefull for some of your more complex designs but after using it for 2 years to do mag wells on my AR15 receivers, I have learned to hate EDM machines.
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