Homebuilt 9mm Handgun Suppressor

[hemmjo]

I confess to envying to anyone owning a METAL LATHE -- but, things CAN be made with scrap aluminum, a drill press, a drill press vise, cutting bits, FILES, SANDPAPER,
and LOTS & LOTS of PATIENCE !!

Yes indeed. Our ancestors did some amazing things with the tools they had access to. I found the book "Finding Longitude" to be fascinating. There are a few books with similar titles. The one I read was written by Dava Sobel, with forward by Neil Armstrong.

The most fascinating thing to me is how he was able to conceive, design, obtain materials, then fabricate a working marine chronometer that can keep accurate time on board a rolling, pitching, bouncing ship. A major undertaking in the early 1700's.

[WmRMeyers]

Yes indeed. Our ancestors did some amazing things with the tools they had access to. I found the book "Finding Longitude" to be fascinating. There are a few books with similar titles. The one I read was written by Dava Sobel, with forward by Neil Armstrong.

The most fascinating thing to me is how he was able to conceive, design, obtain materials, then fabricate a working marine chronometer that can keep accurate time on board a rolling, pitching, bouncing ship. A major undertaking in the early 1700's.

That was an excellent book. I read it as an assignment in a history class and kept it in the permanent collection. It was most of a hundred years before anyone started making things like standardized threads and lathes with cross slides... Those guys were truly amazing mechanics!

[WmRMeyers]

I confess to envying to anyone owning a METAL LATHE -- but, things CAN be made with scrap aluminum, a drill press, a drill press vise, cutting bits, FILES, SANDPAPER,
and LOTS & LOTS of PATIENCE !!

True that! Now whether you should or not can be a very import question! And you don't really need even a drill press, though I have no doubt that would make things a bit easier. Folks in Darra, Pakistan, do some fantastic work with foot-powered lathes and hand tools. Pretty sure most home workshop in the US & UK, for just a couple of examples, are a great deal better equipped, though the skill levels there are probably higher in many cases. Spoken from my advance construction of more than one very poorly rifled "barrel" myself.

[dbat74]

They do but from what I've seen it's pretty crude.. Same goes for there wood turnings.

[NeiljohnUK]

True that! Now whether you should or not can be a very import question! And you don't really need even a drill press, though I have no doubt that would make things a bit easier. Folks in Darra, Pakistan, do some fantastic work with foot-powered lathes and hand tools. Pretty sure most home workshop in the US & UK, for just a couple of examples, are a great deal better equipped, though the skill levels there are probably higher in many cases. Spoken from my advance construction of more than one very poorly rifled "barrel" myself.

Indeed, there have been attempts, some successful, to criminalise the possession of tools in some circumstances in the UK, not helped by criminal modifying blank firers to become unlicensed illegal firearms, or even manufacturing them from metal stock using machine tools.

[Nick79]

Beautiful workmanship. Would be great to test fire using a sound meter so you could measure the decibel reduction.

[Nick79]

Beautiful work. I didn't notice how long you needed to obtain the necessary permit for this build. If not, expect a knock on the door from the ATF. Yours was better suppressed and BTW - nice shooting.

[sossol]

Beautiful work. I didn't notice how long you needed to obtain the necessary permit for this build. If not, expect a knock on the door from the ATF. Yours was better suppressed and BTW - nice shooting.

I doubt that the ATF will be visiting Jughead since he doesn't live in the ATF's jurisdiction.

Neil

[dbat74]

Great job there. Got any parts or whatever for sail?