oak gunstock with a simple brass coaxal attached

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Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:40 am

I made a "How To" on carving a stock and this is the finished piece.

the piston is a piece of brass pipe that fits snug in the chamber. I stamped out a piece of rubber that fits in the piston then filled the rest of the piston with epoxy. I have no trouble piloting this piston with the schrader, but the blowgun is nice for a trigger. The ammo of choice is 1/4 inch ball bearings.

The barrel is 36 inches of 1/4 inch inner diameter brass pipe. The chamber is 12 inches of 5/8 inch pipe. My operating pressure will be 400 psi, so I expect good things when the epoxy fully cures.

Damage pictures and videos will be here tomorrow when the epoxy has cured and my wife has settled down.



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Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:43 am

oak gunstock with a simple brass coaxal attached
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...when the epoxy has cured and my wife has settled down.


moar lol :)

It should be great at 400 psi, what do you have in mind for ammunition? I would go for either 1/4" steel ball bearings or 0.25" airgun pellets.


What about the scope mount? Looks like an off-the-shelf piece, is it one of those adapters used to attach a rail to a scope?
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:49 am

That is exactaly what the scope mount is. It fits nice around my piece of brass.
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:55 am

Very nice.
Aesthetics and ergonomics, mmmm :)
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:56 am

jook13 wrote:That is exactaly what the scope mount is. It fits nice around my piece of brass.
Great idea, 2 of these would be dirt cheap and fit nicely around any 1 inch chamber, i'm sure you can find even cheaper ones.
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:54 am

Thats just too cool. Its definitely one of the cleanest guns on the site! and probabley the one that looks most like a real gun :D

I want damage pics!!!!
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:27 pm

I had plans for damage today. I aired it up, and low and behold there is a leak! :cry:

Time for moar dremel and epoxy action. Damage postponed till tomorrow, as well as a chrony test.
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:48 pm

jook13 wrote:I had plans for damage today. I aired it up, and low and behold there is a leak! :cry:

Time for moar dremel and epoxy action. Damage postponed till tomorrow, as well as a chrony test.
Where is the leak? a vacume cleaner can be very useful in some leak situations, i hooked one up to my coax to suck some JFC in to seal it.
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:52 pm

It was where my pilot tee is epoxied into the brass, behind the piston. No biggie though, the new epoxy job is curing as I type. And what is JFC?
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:05 pm

Just for copper, its this fancy stuff that chemically bonds copper and its good to 500psi.

i had trouble with leaks the first time i used it, but the second time round after i heated the fittings off was much better, although i did have to whip the vacume out :roll: probably my sloppy spreading!
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:18 pm

Yeah I have seen that just for copper. Expensive as hell. Using a vacume to suck epoxy into the leak sounds like a slick idea though.
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:35 pm

ALIHISGREAT wrote:Thats just too cool. Its definitely one of the cleanest guns on the site! and probabley the one that looks most like a real gun :D

I want damage pics!!!!
even a soda bottle with a piece of pipe and hairspray with fuel, is a real gun, if by real you dont mean "not fake" then yeah, all the other guns on this site are actually just pipe and nothing more, except fake guns... :shock: :lol: :roll: :wink:
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:38 pm

Might I suggest good old, reliable, solder? :)

Yet another very nice one Jook. :thumbright: :thumbright:

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I'm not sure how I missed this beauty. :? This looks awesome /jaw drops. It would pass as a commercial rifle in my book. Any damage shots yet?
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Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:01 pm

WTF?!! You carved that stock? Dude thats awesome. That thing looks like a high powered pellet rifle!
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