Reddit sucks. GCI forum is the way.
Finally found everyone. WTH happened! I take a bit of time away from then net and I come back homeless. I can’t stand Reddit now!!! 😒
Reddit on some bullshit again. Glad you made it here bro. No more eggshells to walk on.
Yeah. Definitely glad to be here. Although, I can’t print any 2a stuff till after X-mas. I been spending my off time from work printing toys for the kids to save a buck. Literally, in my workshop like Geppetto right now. 🤣
Out of nowhere too. Sucks
FOSSCADtoo is Dead, Long Live GunCAD
Question are you still working your ar22 drum?
I am. I started having some feeding issues so I’ve backtracked a bit to diagnose it. I’ll probably have to redo the connection point between the tower and drum because something is slightly off enough to cause binding issues. Everything else is done, just need to fugure out that last bit. Magazines are tricky to get right. Drum mags even more so.
Went ahead and printed this in translucent pla but the your settings isn’t too compatible without strength trade offsFor sure. I’d consider that design out of date at this point. I’ve learned a lot more CAD since then. That was basically a mish mash of models thrown together. I’ll revisit it after the drum is finished. The 15-22 mag I’m almost finished with is a pre-requisite to a redesign of both of those towers I made.
Bet real excited rn, gonna have a ss orca ready for it
We all knew this day would come.
should be and hopefully. 😅
Gorgeous builds in the photos 👍🏻. Side note, do you know if anyone ever got an frt to work in the 15.22?
Thank you, I’m quite proud of these two.
To your question, I spent some time trying to crack the case myself, and in my own findings, the upper does not have enough room for the required amount of weight needed for reliable cycling at the higher rate of fire. If you could fit enough weight in the upper, theres still no easy way to keep the weight attached to bolt. Theres no hook or clipping point like the CMMG design has. Epoxy was an idea, but there’s no way it would hold for any length of time. The trip I designed worked, and I could get some 2-4 round bursts from that alone, but inconsistently. Adding weight was the big issue.
It has been done before, but not without heavy modification/fabrication to the bolt, and my goal was to create a drop-in design with minimal mods needed to the firearm itself. Unfortunately, that’s not possible, so I shelved the project. In my opinion, it is not worth it to go to such lengths, when you can build a CMMG kit for less money and and much less effort.
Oh that was you on the old fosscad that were working on it. I’m bad at remembering names but I was following your progress. Yeah I’m thinking a cmmg .22 build will be in my future. Thanks for the detailed response.
