Ghost Gunner
Cody Wilson is at it again. This time, the project is Ghost Gunner, a machine that let’s you mill out 80% AR-15 lower receivers:
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October 1st, 2014 at 2:45 pm
Hmmmm.. just think, and AR-15 vending machine.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:59 pm
…and 1911 frames.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:59 pm
It’s a bit slow for an AR vending machine, but it’s can do more than just ARs, the jig system and the rigidity of the machine is fantastic, I expect to see people carving figurines with it among other things.
October 1st, 2014 at 6:06 pm
I wonder if the Anti crowd truly understands how entirely useless their whole societal Jihad actually is. They’re Prohibitionists reincarnated.
Even if they could get gun laws tightened it wouldn’t change the vast number of guns already in existence. But they cant even do that.
I mean, someday a couple of them are going to wake up and be really, really pissed about the whole thing.
Can’t wait.
October 1st, 2014 at 6:56 pm
I still laugh about Tam’s comment on home depot selling 90% sten receivers in the plumbing department.
October 1st, 2014 at 7:28 pm
This will just make the atf declare that anything more than a casting is a gun.
October 2nd, 2014 at 12:03 am
The wired.com article is pretty good. Most of the people “get it” in comments.
October 2nd, 2014 at 12:44 am
This guy is really really good. Not just a technical wizard, but a master of marketing. That video is just perfect. The voice-over of the California official, the piano music, the odd cuts, the sometimes bizarre images, the moodiness, the text overlays. A stunning piece of work, both the machine and the video.
October 2nd, 2014 at 9:10 am
I be more impressed if there was less of the “moodiness” and more of the machine shown in the clear… maybe with some scantily-clad dancing girls cavorting around it.
October 2nd, 2014 at 9:13 am
Almost forgot – I want mine to do the 80% FNFAL receivers out there also.
October 2nd, 2014 at 11:02 am
I agree with emdfl. I don’t trust any gun-related industry that doesn’t have the good sense to hire scantily-clad dancing girls for their ads. Preferably, smoking and eating bacon.
October 2nd, 2014 at 6:14 pm
>This will just make the atf declare that anything more than a casting is a gun.
I hope it’s not lost on you that this thing can machine from a casting, or a lump of aluminum if it comes to that. That just takes longer.
I imagine the fastest way to make a receiver from scratch would be to machine a block of Styrofoam into the right shape, then melt down a few pistons or a engine head in a simple charcoal furnace and make a “lost-foam casting.” (It’s a thing, check wikipedia or youtube.)
Knock the sprue off the casting, stick it back in the machine, and finish it to 100%. Done.
October 2nd, 2014 at 7:14 pm
“You can’t stop the signal, Mal.”
October 3rd, 2014 at 6:16 am
Viva the 80%! The ATF should be a convenience store. I bet you could even make the trigger groups and such with one of those.
October 3rd, 2014 at 6:17 am
Oh there should be a patch, “I’m a 80%er”
October 3rd, 2014 at 10:50 pm
“I am the 83%”?
Too obscure?
October 4th, 2014 at 2:36 am
Standard, my metallurgy is a bit weak. Would a cast aluminum AR lower really be adequately strong?
October 4th, 2014 at 2:38 am
… make that “a cast aluminum receiver whose exact alloy might be unknown? It’s one thing to use discarded wheel weights when casting bullets; the lead is expected to deform and if you’re not getting the expected results you can always to an imperfect-but-affordable hardness test and throw out the rest of your suspect stock if need be.
October 4th, 2014 at 7:49 pm
I would recommend using actual cast aluminum alloy from scrap items. Extruded uses a different alloy, so making one out of empty beer cans may be amusing but I would avoid it of possible.
Strength? Well they’ve made lowers out of plastic, built up layer by layer of extruded ABS and they have turned out acceptable and safe lowers. I don’t think for a second that they’ll be as durable as forged and then machined lowers, but they should get the job done.
October 4th, 2014 at 10:51 pm
Ah, thanks!
October 5th, 2014 at 12:03 am
There were cast lowers by Olympic Arms back in the 80s. I had one. It was fine. The lower is actually a pretty low stress part except for the part where the buffer tube screws in, and cast is still better than you really need there. They’re doing it in ABS now for [deity of your choice]’s name. Yeah, I’ll go with forged and machined, but bang is bang. Wow, I’m an 80%er and a 3%er. Can’t say I’m a 1%er, but just cos I can’t.
October 7th, 2014 at 12:54 pm
I’ll bet you could print usable and durable CavArms style receivers.
No buffer-tube thread issues if the buffer tube is built in.