How much can you take off a Micromag?

[M98Punk]

So I was thinking the other day after finding the Slug body next to the spare tire in my car (don't ask) How much can you cut and carve off of a old gen 1,2,2.5,2000 micromag body? And now that i have asked that can the people that have posted teh pictures? I have slowly gotten my friend who's family owns a machine shop and garage addicted to paintball in hopes of using his CNC mill and his skill to my own twisted designs.... yes if things are slow I will get him to make a batch of micromag sear screws!

Back to teh point is their anything that would stop me from cutting the weight way down on a micro giving it some deep x or SLF style cuts in the sides and generally having her shed weight like an anorexic 16yo before prom :wow:

[Frizzle Fry]

Buy a brick of aluminum and please don't ruin any Micromags. :mad:

[RedderHokes]

what is a micromag?

[TwilightG]

Find a beat up MM2000 body and go for it! :D They probably have the most material to work with out of all of them.

[M98Punk]

Dear Frizzle Fry,

I love you, unless you are sweeping up micromags that I want before I can have them. But I already have 3 micromags that I love. The other day I took apart my brothers minimag and was confounded by that aluminum bar that fell of the bottom of the body ;)

But if I earn a micromag the hard way (by buying it when you or the other 2 major microwhores are sleeping) then why shouldn't I be allowed to think about turning it into a PTP X-mag. And there would be practice on a hunk of aluminum before I were to touch the body of a beautiful unibody micromag.

I have my priest on hold to bless and give last rights to said micro if they were needed. He looked at me funny but when I said I'd go double down in the collection plate he was all for it.

Sincerely,
M98punk

P.S. I really wanted to know how much beef you needed to leave on them, I was thinking of making some tear looking cuts around the valve ala x-mags maybe make it look like the valve is being held by a metal claw. Trim off the top sight rail around the centerfeed. And that was about as far as I got to thinking....

[robertsr1811]

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I took quite a bit off mine. I don't really know dimensions. I just sent it to a machininst familiar with mags and told him to shave it down. Honestly, it ended up looking a lot like the MM2009 body.

[SSP-SheiK]

what is a micromag?

It is a type of uni-body...body, that Pro-Team Products made/makes...

(and uni-body when it comes to mags, just means you dont need a rail


:cheers:

[M98Punk]

Splash Anno hurts my eyes! It still seems a bit conservative to my interests I'd want to see about making deeper cuts into the back and maybe milling the bottom of the unibody but I think that is now taking a back seat because I have finally found a way to put a in grip co2 changer for my gen1 pistol so now I am donating my capital towards getting that done because that will involve some serious milling, taping, tinkering and maniacal laughing

[zeroaz]

Can you turn a minimag into a pump?

[Pneumagger]

Can you turn a minimag into a pump?

I assume you meant to say micromag?

Short answer... not easily if at all.

[Frizzle Fry]

Short answer... not easily if at all.

I tried, I failed. It's not really possible to do the internal milling without removing a lot of the top of the body, and even then the options are to make a large rectangular channel for the pump rod or carefully bend the end of the rod with it installed using needlenose pliers and (in my case) a small torch. I'm sure there's technology beyond my own that could do it, but it's probably not something that most airsmiths have.