I decided after 4 or 5 years of regulating my minimag to a back up/ loaner gun to start playing with it again this past summer. It had a chrome minimag body, VL vertical grip, benchmark double trigger frame, and J&J SS barrel. It was basicly as heavy as you could make it. I up graded with a ULE body, J&J ceramic barrel, and a ULE'd the rail.
It was fine but I decided I wanted something different. I looked around at other mags and came across the SFL mags and liked the look of them. That got me thinking of building something similar. I got a chunk of aluminum and went to work.
The first thing I needed to do was mill the body blank flat and square on all 6 sides. I then put it in the 4 jaw chuck in my lathe. I worked from the valve end forward so the first operation was to drill and counter bore for the vlave and breach all the way through the body.
The only thing left to do in the lathe was flip the blank around and put the barrel threads and counter bores in on the oposite end.
More to come tonite.
It was fine but I decided I wanted something different. I looked around at other mags and came across the SFL mags and liked the look of them. That got me thinking of building something similar. I got a chunk of aluminum and went to work.
The first thing I needed to do was mill the body blank flat and square on all 6 sides. I then put it in the 4 jaw chuck in my lathe. I worked from the valve end forward so the first operation was to drill and counter bore for the vlave and breach all the way through the body.
The only thing left to do in the lathe was flip the blank around and put the barrel threads and counter bores in on the oposite end.
More to come tonite.
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