why are we still on topic?

your tools get more expensive Yeah, I was half joking. However, When a 15 year old spends 3,500 out of pocket in a month on a mill and a lathe, he starts to wonder. Not so much about how things can get any more expensive, but about how I'm gonna afford this for the rest of my life :P. Was this manu...

I just had thoughts of quitting this hobby. I now feel like my stuff is comparable to blowing bbs through a straw. In all seriousness my God wow. Words can't even.

I'm sorry if my lack of bullets offended you or your OCD. I would have done it, but I spent too much time typing, so I decided to be lazy You obviously put a lot of work into that write up, which is why I bothered making it more legible, because it would be a shame if people would simply look at th...

Here in Massachusetts (US), willing to do some machining (turning/milling), TIG welding, MIG welding, thermoplastic welding, electronics work, woodwork. Machining should be not critical. I can give quotes at tospurr@gmail.com. Am busy, as I'm a full time student (highschool freshman). Decent TIG wel...

I'm just saying that I was too lazy. Thank you jack. I'm not offended in any way.

Fixed, as far as I could be bothered ;) They say they are rated for something crazy like 350bar, but I just go around 30 bar. - You need to remove the label and wrap the bottle (you can get 130L or 60L tanks-just go to staples or somewhere, amazon has them, look on sodastream website) in duct tape ...

I just posted this in someones thread and figured i'd put it here, too: They say they are rated for something crazy like 350bar, but I just go around 30 bar. You need to remove the label and wrap the bottle (you can get 130L or 60L tanks-just go to staples or somewhere, amazon has them, look on soda...

guys i found an excellent solution. SodaStream Co2tanks. They say they are rated for something crazy like 350bar, but I just go around 30 bar. You need to remove the label and wrap the bottle (you can get 130L or 60L tanks-just go to staples or somewhere, amazon has them, look on sodastream website)...

i used this and added a spring:

Important! I'm starting machining, but where can i get blanks of solid aluminum online cheap? Any help appre.

what size (length)? what material? how's this: these numbers are accurate:

Brass (0.43mm too big):




Stainless (0.17mm too big):

I would like to get into machining. Anybody know where I could get a hobby milling machine? So far I only have a drill press, a lot of woodworking tools, a small lathe, and all of the welding machines imaginable.

that's nice good work. some extra pic's would be appreciated so far a nice build and is that tape holding the actual gun to stock i would find some other way of attaching it to stock make it nice and clean and could we have a pic of this gun without stock and a close up of the rear portion of the g...

I hope that I don't like banned or something for saying this, but I'm 14 and I decided to take a crack at building a pellet rifle, since my mom thinks that I'f I buy a pellet rifle that I will go out and kill absolutely everybody.. I'm working on mach III still. I have pics of Mach I (PVC) and Mach ...