wallice9111 get's a new body, AKA how an FSE-LX is made Lot's and Lot's of pic's

[PsychoBaller]

Festus......

u want to take my SFL to the Mill..... i have some ideas.....hehehehe...

~da baller

(edit: i really only wanted the dovetail on the bottom half of the battery housing milled off, as well as the section of body below the barrel.. but above the battery milled like how the Xmag is.. thas about it)

[FESTUS33]

Originally posted by Dern
That is nice! How much are you selling the whole thing for?

UMMM!! Which Whole Thing

[Blazestorm]

the sluggo body, you should mass produce those... very nice and that machine you're using is cool you could do some pretty creative stuff if you wanted to

[FESTUS33]

Re: Festus......

Originally posted by PsychoBaller
u want to take my SFL to the Mill..... i have some ideas.....

hehehehe...

~da baller

Geeezze You're already 1 of 49 you want ME to screw that up!
I understand wallace9111 is only 1 of 2 presently! but I do'nt think I want to mess with what you already have.
If you have another Mag that you want to Re Body P.M. Me
and we'll talk.
Rick

[FESTUS33]

O.K. Folk's
It's 2:10 A.M. and I'm going to bed..
I'll try to catch up tommorrow afternoon
since I have to go Trap Shooting in the morning.
Have fun with it, and I'll catch up later.
Rick

[bornl33t]

I honestly could care less about the slug-o... but that mill has me sooo jealous..... HMPF

[yeahthatsme]

hmm, festus you may be hearing from me soon.

[snakestang]

Some Advice

First off your bodies are looking great! Keep up the great work.

I do have some question for you though. I know this may sound silly but I have a drill press (nothing fancy) and I was wondering if I could do some small parts with it? The head at its fastest spins at 3100 RPMs. My main question is what type of cutting heads are you using? I am sure they are expensive but for what I want to do I would only need a few small ones. Is there a place I can purchase them at a reasonable cost? Or, will what I am using even work for what I want to do? Lots of questions and maybe I should just email you.

Thank you for your time in answering my crazy questions.

P.S. Wow I didnt know those machines weighed in at over a ton!

[edit]Will any of these work? Cutters Thanks again.[end edit]

[FutureMagOwner]

festus check your pms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


anyway that one looks very nice aswell good job

[boggerman]

Snake, the spindle on your drill press is just not rigid enough to keep the cutting tool from moving around, they are only made to bore a hole, not to side cut. At least you would have a very rough finish with lots of cutter marks and at worst you could break the cutting tool (they are very hard and brittle) and mess up the part you are working on.

[FESTUS33]

Originally posted by boggerman
Snake, the spindle on your drill press is just not rigid enough to keep the cutting tool from moving around, they are only made to bore a hole, not to side cut. At least you would have a very rough finish with lots of cutter marks and at worst you could break the cutting tool (they are very hard and brittle) and mess up the part you are working on.

Yeh I kinda left the thread hang for a while, cause I
got real busy with a bunch of stuff.
But Snake what boggerman said is true, and very few
drill presses have any kind of controllable motion
in any but the Z Axis. You need a lot more than that,
to consider doing one of these.
A knee mill is controllable in
X axis {side to side as you stand in front of the machine}
Y axis {front to back}
Z axis {up and down}
Z axis is actualy controlled in 2 way's,
you can move the quill like a drill press,
or you can lock the quill and move the whole
table up and down.
Even with this much control over what you're
doing, you end up with tool mark's that have
to be polished before a part can be called
complete.
Rick

[FooTemps]

meh! you're ignoring my question...

are you going to try out new designs?

[FESTUS33]

Originally posted by FooTemps
meh! you're ignoring my question...

are you going to try out new designs?

Actually Foo
I thought I answered this, but I guess that was
in my other thread. Basically all my bodies will
have the same general look. But No Two Will Ever
Be Identical. If you have an idea as to how you
want you're body embellished, if it's do'able
on my machine without adding a lot of hour's
of machining time. Ive pretty much decided that
All AO'ers can can have my machining on they're
bodies done for $100.00 + shipping. If you want
me to install The feed neck and ball detent,
Those part's are extra $$.
We can talk about that in P.M.'s
Rick

[FooTemps]

ohhh... so every design IS new... heh, that's cool how you're not really mass producing the same body but just similar looking bodies... Nothing radically different like a different shape then huh? I wasn't really thinking radically complicated. Just wondering if you were going to try new things in the future.

[FESTUS33]

Originally posted by FooTemps
ohhh... so every design IS new... heh, that's cool how you're not really mass producing the same body but just similar looking bodies... Nothing radically different like a different shape then huh? I wasn't really thinking radically complicated. Just wondering if you were going to try new things in the future.

Well
actualy what I'm doing is basically the same on
every body I do.
But if you read the commentary on the pic's
you'll realize I only take 2 measurement's in
the whole process, Right side/Left side .035 minimum
everything else is done by EYE. That mean's My
20 yr's of experience looking at what I have on
my machine, and how it look's to me when I set it up
for cutting. So even though they may look the same,
no two cut's are ever going to be the same.
I'm just expressing my art through my machine.
Rick