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byGideon Fubar ( 833343 ) writes:
I'm just... absolutely fascinated by the kind of thinking that imagined that this was something that was possible in any meaningful way.
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Dumb arse Americans who don't have a fucken clue how anything works!
Anyone with a lathe can make better gun parts from plastic.
byGideon Fubar ( 833343 ) writes:
What can I say, you're not wrong... It's a really weird approach in a country where it's legal to machine your own gunbarrels on a lathe provided you don't intend to sell them.
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bylucifuge31337 ( 529072 ) writes:
What kind of "gunbarrel" are you producing on a lathe? Is possible, but not practical. That's just not how rifled barrels are manufactured.
by0123456 ( 636235 ) writes:
Pistol barrels, which are the most likely to be use in crimes.
Making pistol-calibre barrels at home is a solved problem. This is why the rebels in Burma use 3D-printed semi-auto 9mm carbines when they can't acquire anything better.
byevil_aaronm ( 671521 ) writes:
Out of curiosity, how doyou produce rifle barrels, if not on a lathe?
bychris_martin ( 115358 ) writes:
For button barrels, a Rifle drill is used to get a minimum bore size, then a button (with a rifling profile, sort of shaped like a bullet) is pushed or pulled through the barrel to formed the rifling.
There are also lathe-like devices that can cut the rifling as the barrel twists for the rifling. This is called "cut rifling". These as far as I have seen are all CNC controlled.
There is also hammer forged barres where a rod is placed inside the bore and the barrel is hammered into that rod to form the rifling.
byavandesande ( 143899 ) writes:
Several steps of barrel manufacture are done on a lathe. You are probably thinking of rifling, which is done by forcing a button through the bore.
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