Post by 2nd Bat on Jun 7, 2008 19:51:21 GMT -5
I always admonish others to check twice before taking action. In the course of a personal build of a couple BARs, I Jury rigged a new barrel and fake gas tube into a couple substantially modifed M14 stocks which will serve as the spine for the cosmetic attachements that should end up looking like a BAR (At a glance) Believe me these things are not going to be gorgeous.
I just want to build a couple durable and robust BARs as gun rentals/ loaners for local events that won't require me to sink much more than a lot of time into. I'm doing two at once as it frankly simplifys the effort in the long run. That's they idea anyway. I put them preliminarily togther and (I'm embarrased to admit) with the intent to bondo them both together. Prior to such a drastic move I tested everything and checked to insure proper operation and double checked. (Everything at this point was held together by tape.) The whole thing was reminiscent of a RED/Green show episode. I removed the tape and applied a layer of bondo that would hold it all in place.
Apparently when I removed the tape, the hop up, set up, pivoted out of place on both guns (They are spring activated and sort of hinged on the M14.) Both guns fire great but the hop up isn't connected on either. To get at the mechanism and reposition them the stocks must be removed. The stocks that are tacked on with bondo! Fortunately I hadn't continued with the cosmetics further preventing me from going back and resetting it all. Or requiring me to hack away at a lot of cosmetic work.
It should be an easy fix once I get back at both of them. I'm glad I test fired them before continuing further but I sure wished I'd caught it earlier.
At this point the project looks like a total abortion but I'll post some pictures once I'm done. Absolutely nothing here I want to sell or anything anyone would neccessarily want to buy. They will look fine from 20 feet. (Maybe 40 feet) We had so many WW2 weapons at Jump to Destiny it bothered me seeing M14s in the role of BARs. Schmitty was kind enough to supply his BAR which helped but there were still a couple M14s on the field.
The fact that a couple M14s out 60 players on the field are starting to bother me is a real sign we are making progress in the area of WW2 airsoft. The pictures of this project such as they are should provide another viable approach as to how to make a pseudo custom gun if you have time and little money
I just want to build a couple durable and robust BARs as gun rentals/ loaners for local events that won't require me to sink much more than a lot of time into. I'm doing two at once as it frankly simplifys the effort in the long run. That's they idea anyway. I put them preliminarily togther and (I'm embarrased to admit) with the intent to bondo them both together. Prior to such a drastic move I tested everything and checked to insure proper operation and double checked. (Everything at this point was held together by tape.) The whole thing was reminiscent of a RED/Green show episode. I removed the tape and applied a layer of bondo that would hold it all in place.
Apparently when I removed the tape, the hop up, set up, pivoted out of place on both guns (They are spring activated and sort of hinged on the M14.) Both guns fire great but the hop up isn't connected on either. To get at the mechanism and reposition them the stocks must be removed. The stocks that are tacked on with bondo! Fortunately I hadn't continued with the cosmetics further preventing me from going back and resetting it all. Or requiring me to hack away at a lot of cosmetic work.
It should be an easy fix once I get back at both of them. I'm glad I test fired them before continuing further but I sure wished I'd caught it earlier.
At this point the project looks like a total abortion but I'll post some pictures once I'm done. Absolutely nothing here I want to sell or anything anyone would neccessarily want to buy. They will look fine from 20 feet. (Maybe 40 feet) We had so many WW2 weapons at Jump to Destiny it bothered me seeing M14s in the role of BARs. Schmitty was kind enough to supply his BAR which helped but there were still a couple M14s on the field.
The fact that a couple M14s out 60 players on the field are starting to bother me is a real sign we are making progress in the area of WW2 airsoft. The pictures of this project such as they are should provide another viable approach as to how to make a pseudo custom gun if you have time and little money
