Gaspipe
September 03, 2001, 19:39
It was raining again this morning, so I decided to build up another Aussie L1A1 kit I bought from Tapco, refinished and salted away. This one has a very nice barrel, but had generally very poor furniture.
I refinished this one with cheap auto parts store baked on satin black engine block 500 degree spray paint over degreased parking which was about 75% or so. I baked the parts (left the barrel, receiver and gas tube in the original parked finish) for 250F for 75 minutes. This has been very resistant to oil and bore solvent so far.
The wood was really bad on this kit - it took me a couple weeks to degrease, drill through several cracks, plug, glue, clamp, stain and oil. I was going to throw it away at first, but decided it'd be good enough for a 'shootin' gun. Besides, it has a '986' cartouche in the left side of the stock inlayed with white paint, so I decided it had character and looked cool, so it got a second lease on life. It would be easy to repair scrapes and scratches due to the nature of the finish. I used a very dark mahogany stain to hide many of the repairs (and future filth).
This rifle (after refinishing the parts) went together remarkably fast - about 75 minutes and it was ready to shoot. It has a type 3 metric Entreprise receiver instead of a Type 1 to keep costs down. It got a metric bho and mag release asl. To keep the cool 'inch pattern' look, it got a VOW folding charging handle (an excellent product). Other US parts include a DSA gas piston, FSE H/T/S and a 'faux' VOW flash hider.
It used a size 3 breeching washer, and a .262 locking shoulder. Timed by hand to 1100, and torqued right in smoothly.
It took me about 10 minutes to fit the VOW charging handle - the shoulders on the pin that activates the bolt carrier needed to be milled to sit flush against the slider. The quality of the part is first rate, looks cool, and counts as a US part (which is important for me so I could keep the inch furniture and 'look'). I'm going to put these things on all of my FALs now.
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Gaspipe/l1a_0011.jpg
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Gaspipe/l1a_0012.jpg
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Gaspipe/l1a_0013.jpg
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Gaspipe/l1a_0014.jpg
This rifle is going to get an ARMS scope mount and a VOMZ 4x pilad scope (not seen in the pics).
The pic quality was sacrificed compliments of hunting-pics.com, but that's whatcha get for nothing :)
Ciao,
I refinished this one with cheap auto parts store baked on satin black engine block 500 degree spray paint over degreased parking which was about 75% or so. I baked the parts (left the barrel, receiver and gas tube in the original parked finish) for 250F for 75 minutes. This has been very resistant to oil and bore solvent so far.
The wood was really bad on this kit - it took me a couple weeks to degrease, drill through several cracks, plug, glue, clamp, stain and oil. I was going to throw it away at first, but decided it'd be good enough for a 'shootin' gun. Besides, it has a '986' cartouche in the left side of the stock inlayed with white paint, so I decided it had character and looked cool, so it got a second lease on life. It would be easy to repair scrapes and scratches due to the nature of the finish. I used a very dark mahogany stain to hide many of the repairs (and future filth).
This rifle (after refinishing the parts) went together remarkably fast - about 75 minutes and it was ready to shoot. It has a type 3 metric Entreprise receiver instead of a Type 1 to keep costs down. It got a metric bho and mag release asl. To keep the cool 'inch pattern' look, it got a VOW folding charging handle (an excellent product). Other US parts include a DSA gas piston, FSE H/T/S and a 'faux' VOW flash hider.
It used a size 3 breeching washer, and a .262 locking shoulder. Timed by hand to 1100, and torqued right in smoothly.
It took me about 10 minutes to fit the VOW charging handle - the shoulders on the pin that activates the bolt carrier needed to be milled to sit flush against the slider. The quality of the part is first rate, looks cool, and counts as a US part (which is important for me so I could keep the inch furniture and 'look'). I'm going to put these things on all of my FALs now.
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Gaspipe/l1a_0011.jpg
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Gaspipe/l1a_0012.jpg
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Gaspipe/l1a_0013.jpg
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Gaspipe/l1a_0014.jpg
This rifle is going to get an ARMS scope mount and a VOMZ 4x pilad scope (not seen in the pics).
The pic quality was sacrificed compliments of hunting-pics.com, but that's whatcha get for nothing :)
Ciao,