Month: November 2019

Good Monday Morning! This past week went by fast for us. As a consequence we did not get as much done as we would have liked. In the United States this week is Thanksgiving, which shortens the work week from 5 days to about 3, (Except those working in Retail. Been there done that, sorry guys).

We’ll be posting a few articles this week. We went to the shooting range to sight in the Pawn Shop 30-06 Mauser. Some exciting results there, so look for an article on that this week.

In the meantime here’s what we published over the past week.

Along with the theme of the Pawn Shop 30-06 we are taking another scrap Mauser Action and turning it into something of a scout rifle. This is along the lines of Jeff Cooper’s vision of the ideal rifle. Compact, lightweight, and capable of taking game up to 1,000lbs.

Junk Mauser to 308 Scout Rifle: Introduction

This next project is a complete departure from the theme of the site. However I thought it was too cool of a project not to write about. This is something I am doing for work. We have been using an eBee drone for all of our aerial surveying needs at the mine, but due to the high operating cost we are looking at a self built option. I’ll be doing all the Research, Construction and testing of this new bird. If you’re interested here’s the introduction article.

Photogrammetry Drone: Introduction

We have continued to make progress on the 3D Printer. The frame is all but complete, and we’re moving on to building the Y and Z Axis drive train. The frame is probably the most involved subassembly of this build. To see the detailed write up, check out the link below.

3D Printer: Framing

As you can tell I have several irons in the fire, working on a few different projects. This keeps me busy, as I wait for parts to arrive for other projects. Hopefully there is a little something for everyone.

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The Ballistic Assitant

This week has been a busy week for me, and while I was able to make some progress on the projects, I haven’t been able to do a whole lot else. So if there doesn’t seem to be as much of a variety of posts, this would be why.

Fair warning, we in the United States are moving into the Holiday Season. All sorts of chaos ensues during this time of year, and that usually makes money tight, and time short. As a result many of the projects I am working on will slow down. We will be rolling out several new project pages over the next few weeks, some of these will be related to shooting/gun smithing, others will be unrelated to the hobby, but are projects that I am undertaking for work.

Given that the projects maybe slow, I’ll be working on more articles that focus on the manufacturing side of ammunition development and production.

This past week we made some more progress on getting the gremlins out of the VZ-58. Here’s a few write ups on what we did, and how it improved things.

VZ-58: Feed Ramp Addition

VZ-58: Anti-Walk Pins

VZ-58: Steel Case Ammo Issues

A new project that I’ll be working on is getting a old commercial Mauser shooting like it should. We’ll be doing some work on that this week.

Pawn Shop 30-06: Introduction

We introduced the project page for the Junk Mauser to 308 Scout Rifle, but I have yet to provide a formal introduction to that. We’ll be working through that this week. This should be an interesting project.

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The Ballistic Assistant

I hope everyone has a chance to thank a Veteran today. They are truly special people who do not always receive the recognition they deserve. To those that served, thank you!

This past we were able to get out an test fire the VZ-58. Learned a few things in the process. We’re still working through some bugs with this rifle build, so expect o see a few more articles before we can call this project complete.

VZ-58: Test Firing & Installing the Ejector

We continued our discussion on Variation. This time how to visualize it using simple control charts. Hopefully this article will prove beneficial in helping to understand what normal and abnormal process variation looks like.

Visualizing Variation using Control Charts

We continue to make progress with the 3D Printer. There is still some design work left to do, but for the most part the major components have been modeled. I’ve started putting together the pieces for the frame, and we are well on our way to getting something going!

3D Printer: Cutting out the Wood Components

3D Printer: Cooling System First Concept

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The Ballistic Assistant