War Machine LLC picatinny Archives

After the excitement of the first production run we need to float back down to earth for a little bit and face...

Finally after many months of work preparing for an actual production run we are now here. Before that we first knock out...

My need for more tooling is outpacing my lack of time. I need to put a large tooling order together and am...

While I’m waiting on some more tooling I decided to go back and revisit some of the operations that I wasn’t completely...

Things are really starting to take shape and the new fixture plate is working out great. The setup seemed very rigid to...

In this episode I machine the 2nd fixture plate alluded to in the last post. It is a similar concept to fixture...

We start out this entry addressing the backlash issue that came up in the X-axis. It turned out a collar came loose...

In this episode I simultaneously take a step back and a step forward. After destroying my last 0.5 roughing endmill I got...

After spending some time CAM’ing a profile machining operation to cut out the general profile of the gasblock I took it to...

In this post I am revisiting the process of preparing the stock material for the fixture plate. The previous operation had a...