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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:10 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
LeMaudit wrote:And now I know what to do with all those old KBCTools and Sears catalogs :lol:
Make sure you don't accidentally shoot the Victoria's Secret ones :D

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:29 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
One last vain indulgence, yesterday a relative with a "proper" camera swung by and took some pictures:

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:34 am
by Gun Freak
:salute:
Amazing.

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:08 pm
by LeMaudit
Same subject, but with a bit more focus:
Image

Strait from the camera, no post-enhancement, just cropping.
:tongue3:

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:14 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
The "bad" focus is deliberate in order to draw attention to particular features - honestly!

Also, did you re-polish yours? With the humidity in epoxyland polished brass seems to matt up fairly quickly.

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:20 pm
by LeMaudit
Oh then if it is an artistic license, my bad :D

No I didn't re-polish it. I've put an anti-tarnish polish paste in the beginning, seem to be good enough for a while.

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:23 pm
by Gun Freak
Jsr would casing it help?

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:47 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
LeMaudit wrote:I've put an anti-tarnish polish paste in the beginning, seem to be good enough for a while.
Sounds like another thing to add on the shopping list :)
Jsr would casing it help?
Casing? :?

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:51 pm
by Gun Freak
Yes...

Putting it in a case.

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:04 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Gun Freak wrote:Putting it in a case.
Lol... there I was thinking it was some brass heat treatment I hadn't heard of :D

Yeah, I suppose keeping it away from sweaty palms will help - but for the time being at least, as an answer to "how are you getting on with your new toys?", it needs to be passed around ;)

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:05 pm
by ramses
have you considered lacquer?

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:50 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
ramses wrote:have you considered lacquer?
Good point, cheers

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:36 am
by warhead052
So jsr, not to get off topic of what you guys are talking about, but when is the arsenal of preloaded cartridges in the shape of pen guns going to come out?

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:09 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
warhead052 wrote:So jsr, not to get off topic of what you guys are talking about, but when is the arsenal of preloaded cartridges in the shape of pen guns going to come out?
Consider a few things:

- machining takes a bit more thought than quickly mixing up some epoxy and is considerably more labour intensive, so well over half of the work goes into the designing and planning, ideas are best refined on paper before being hewn out of virgin bar stock. The brainstorming that went into the subject of this thread took longer than the build itself.

- I work for a living, while I am lucky enough for my position to allow me easy access to spudfiles, sadly it does not allow me the same hours to be spent at my workbench

- Not all research and development is necessarily suitable for and published on these hallowed pages

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:47 pm
by warhead052
You're right. How many hours do you get on your workbench a week? There's only one thing left to do with the pen guns at this point, make em better.