Homemade PCP receiver
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And then a “YT influencer” will go tour the factory and you’ll be convinced that it’s the best rifle money can buy.
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When I was still working, I made some of these for a lot of fellow machinist. Most of the stuff we worked on was tapped right after you drilled the hole but sometimes we tapped out of the machine for whatever reason.
You just hold the block down and carefully start tapping.
Sometimes we did installs where we used an electric hand drill to drill a hole to be tapped. We would clamp the block in place if possible or carefully hold it and carefully drill and then tap.
The blocks I made had a hole the same size as the tap drill and also a hole that allowed the tap to spin freely (couple thousandths clearance). The largest tap my blocks generally accommodated was 1/4-20 & 1/4-28.
Link is for an inexpensive commercial guide but only guides the tap, not the tap drill. It’s also made of Delrin. I typically used aluminum or steel.
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I've hit a bit of a wall: the only I/O platform that I know how to write code for is the Arduino stuff; after weeks of being buried in work I finally had some time this Saturday to start figuring out the electronics, just to discover that my Mac will no longer connect to the Arduino boards (I suspect the folks at Arduino are making it more difficult to use aftermarket boards). SOOO, I have to get a regular laptop & use that for the Arduino: technology can be a pain!
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Let me know if one day you decide to build a Mil-Spec Buffer Tube Adapter for the FX Panthera lol
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Still haven't found a cheap laptop to program the Arduino. I could do the electronics without a chip, I received some helpful diagrams from fellow members but I would still have to do some thinking & tinkering, unfortunately I'm currently too lazy for any of that: changing duty cycles, dwell etc. is a lot faster & easier with a chip.
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