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Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:32 am

Just forged steel "hooks" for my FWB to get it to the wall under the 97k, have to say im pretty pleased with the result :)

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Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:11 pm

First time I've seen the whole thing, looking good! How is she shooting with the new piston?
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Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:43 pm

Nicely! Punching holes to 3mm bullhide and denting the 50cal ammobox behind it easily! Great gun for the price :D
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Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:45 pm

Great to hear :D
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:50 pm

Its funny when you shoot it, then pick up the 97k. Its like "OH MY SH*T this thing is awesome!" and then i find myself hugging the 97k :D
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Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:12 pm

HW97 is a fantastic bit of kit. Love the laminate stock. 8)

New piston Jack? Factory or something you whipped up? Pics????
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Sat Oct 13, 2012 12:01 am

Gippeto wrote:New piston Jack? Factory or something you whipped up? Pics????
Bit of guestimate based on limited dimensions from jake and pics I found online but it seems to have worked :)

Here's a commercially available item:

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Here's what I whipped up:
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Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:11 am

Did someone notice the charging handle grip Lab machined for me? I think it looks awesome with the blue laminate stock :wink:
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jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:Here's what I whipped up:
Piston seal then...gotcha. :wink:

Thought about playing around with o-ringed piston seals?

http://www.network54.com/Forum/451309/t ... piston+cap...

Have been tossing it about for a while now...it's "on the pile" of things to do.
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Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:15 pm

Its 4.10 AM here in Finland, and i'm working SAC contest in my buddys hams station. Haven´t had a single station in 5 hours and i'm starting to run out of energy drinks :D Damn, i have used to control my radio using my 3 (soon 4) screens and a foot pedal with a HiFi class headphone/mic, all i got here is paper log and a crude and shitty mic with a mono audio. OH, and the antenna were using is just a 40m piece of silver coated copper wire.

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I did a quick Google search (as procrastination is always welcome when writing an essay on a topic you don't care about) but I'm still not quite sure what the goal is.

So, what's the point and what makes it fun? :D
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Jakethebeast wrote:Did someone notice the charging handle grip Lab machined for me? I think it looks awesome with the blue laminate stock :wink:
Heh, first time I see it on a larger pic, looking good even if I may say so myself :D

The guns look great, if I get one i'm going to do the same :)

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watch this :)
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Gippeto wrote:Thought about playing around with o-ringed piston seals?

http://www.network54.com/Forum/451309/t ... piston+cap...

Have been tossing it about for a while now...it's "on the pile" of things to do.
Interesting, never seen it done before! Synthetic seals seem to work well enough though...
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Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:33 am

JSR, if you want to test o-ringed seal the FWB is open for raping, though the white seal you made might destroy when trying to remove it
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