No thread hijack intended, but I sure wish someone made a MSH assembly/dis-assembly tool even it was just a modified vice grip kinda thing. Maybe one exists and I just haven't been able to find it.
No pictures available, but I have made several over the years. Frame way bars, rail swaging punch from a large chisel, slide pusher made from an old screwdriver, bench blocks of various descriptions from blocks of aluminum and steel. I copied the tools sold by Brownells using their pictures and description as a guide. Also copied the MGW frame wrench for revolvers. Bought one insert from Brownells and worked backwards from there.
HMMM as close as Dave is to area 51 and the name and website in his signature, do ya suppose the thing we post pics of will wind up with a patent in that name? HMMMMM:biglaugh::bawling:
A little pricier than Logs' block(I wish I'd seen that a long time ago!) but the 10-8 Armorers Block has a pinhole and pin for that very purpose. I can attest that logs' Block works.
don't have pics but I took an old John Trimble penknife with a broken blade and flattened the last 1/2" of the cutting edge with a file. It works great for depressing the Safety plunger when installing a Thumb-Safety. It's thin, and if you're halfway careful, it won't damage the gun at all.
If the FPS is in tight I can use my tool to depress the firing pin and tap the tool to move the firing pin stop. Notice that the end is just long enough to push the firing pin in; it's almost flush with the back of the firing pin stop so you don't have to guess how far to push it in. When you do this several times per day is saves a few seconds and there is less fumbling.
I don't think you could do that with a paper clip or golf tee.
I was hoping to see some tools people made and share some of mine so folks might be inspired to do the same.
I will post more photos when I return from my trip to Riverside County (Sun City) tomorrow. Crap, I hate having to go to the SPRofK.
I built a modified Yavapai slide jig that also holds the barrel to cut the hood and lower lugs.
I would love to have a better fit and easier and more accurate way to hold the barrel but it was what I needed at the time.
I will post pics later, can't do it at work.
Standard jig use...
Modified for barrel machining...this was before I milled the angles on the main block.
I would like to see the big aluminum block that Joe C uses, it looks handy.
Nothing fancy here, just a solid frame fixture that I recently made out of 1" aluminum. My old one had numerous dings plus I had drilled and tapped so many holes in it, there wasn't much metal left
I guess these are "tools", I don't know, but we have been carving these frame fixtures out, it's kind of slow making them, the dremel gets hot in the hands and you have to stop and let it cool down. I should get more dremels I suppose, so when one gets hot we could just grab a cold one.
BullHunter, Woohoo, I hope I have not spend all my tooling money for now though. I didn't realize you were in Montana. A buddy of mine lives up in Bozeman. Nice place to visit in June.
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