20 Jun 2025 8:08 am
I was thinking rough-cut the shape of the piece, leaving significant margins for bending/shaping. I also thought it could be milled without bending, but I don't think even an extremely precise mill and good machinist could easily get this right.*GHETTOBLASTER » 20 Jun 2025, 7:51 am » wrote: ↑ All of those pivot points and rivet locations are hyper critical.
The bending of the sheet metal needs to be tightly controlled with custom made gauge blocks.
It seems bassackwards but the pieces might need to be bent first, then cut to shape, then sent to a drilling jig .
The gun's original case could be used as the drilling jig.