My de-railed rail...

[Jaan]

Thanks to everyone who helped out when I asked on the tech forum. I went ahead and did it.

Once upon a time I got a Box O' Parts with a classic rail in it that I swear, someone took the anno off with a grinding wheel.

Skip ahead a few years. I decided to make a nice smooth classic rail by milling the side rails off. I'm sending it out to be anno'd black, but I think it came out nice and I couldn't wait to post pictures.

From the front. I rounded off the front. The foregrip I'm going to use is going to look fine.

http://i.imgur.com/RpWd1sB.jpg?1

The rear...I had to cut into the locating pin channel, but it seems to hold in a valve just fine.

http://i.imgur.com/Qc3tqZY.jpg?1

There's still enough meat to hold in the sear pin...

http://i.imgur.com/HcYEYWR.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/3p3guSj.jpg?1

I'll post pictures when it's done and mounted on the gun.

[Cyco-Dude]

that's pretty much how i would make a classic rail, just mill the sides, round the front and actually make it a little bit longer (same length as a classic am body).

[2BAD4U]

Nice, what tools did U use?

[Jaan]

A milling machine. I clamped it in sideways, and used a polymer clay called Super Sculpty to hold in the round part. I used a similar technique to hold in a round ball to drill for a Phantom pump handle.

[BiNumber3]

Nice, i did the same with a rail a long time ago, rounded the front to fit flush with a vert ASA.

[Jaan]

Nice, i did the same with a rail a long time ago, rounded the front to fit flush with a vert ASA.

I actually did that originally, before I took the side rails off, but since the gun I'm going to use this on has a gadget grip, and it's smaller than that, I decided to round it off even more.