Post by Big Joe on Mar 13, 2020 10:23:12 GMT -5
Not for sure if this fits here or not but its firearm related and its tinkering so...
The boys and I welded up a new lead catching backdrop yesterday after we finished planting. Its all from pieces we collected last fall, ok collected did involve a trip to a real steel yard not my junk pile LOL.. It is for cast only so far because its not been tested to see if it will take a jacketed round other than slow handgun rounds. Its not foolproof but in our test yesterday afternoon it collected 75%+ of the fired rounds in its catch can. I think it could cost me dearly if I am not careful, I know the boys shot up a half a bulk box of 22LR ammo in the test. and I shot around 100 rounds of various large handgun ammo into it. I did test the metal using a scrap and while its not hardened plate the 44 mag at full power only dented it from a nearly full on 90° shot... I did tilt it downward to keep a possible ricochet from coming back at me. Wife told us it IS NOT staying behind the shop, it goes down back... She is still testy so we didn't push it or at least I didn't.. They messed around and heard -- one more word and there is no dessert for you two.... I am a slow learner but I know when to let it go -- only took me 40+ yrs to learn when she saying at a certain way don't kick the tires walk away.. We painted it earlier so its trying to dry in the moist air we have today.. Used really cheap dollar store rattle can paints so we may be waiting a while or put a heater on it to speed things up. If you look past the runs it looks pretty snazzy for an old man ans 2 jr welders LOL. I will get a picture of it after we get it installed.. I know the boys took a couple during the build or I think they did - they may have been collecting blackmail shots for later too, who knows, they were poking at me for wearing my knee pads. It took for ever for the knees to stop hurting from the plumbing and I didn't want a repeat.
The boys and I welded up a new lead catching backdrop yesterday after we finished planting. Its all from pieces we collected last fall, ok collected did involve a trip to a real steel yard not my junk pile LOL.. It is for cast only so far because its not been tested to see if it will take a jacketed round other than slow handgun rounds. Its not foolproof but in our test yesterday afternoon it collected 75%+ of the fired rounds in its catch can. I think it could cost me dearly if I am not careful, I know the boys shot up a half a bulk box of 22LR ammo in the test. and I shot around 100 rounds of various large handgun ammo into it. I did test the metal using a scrap and while its not hardened plate the 44 mag at full power only dented it from a nearly full on 90° shot... I did tilt it downward to keep a possible ricochet from coming back at me. Wife told us it IS NOT staying behind the shop, it goes down back... She is still testy so we didn't push it or at least I didn't.. They messed around and heard -- one more word and there is no dessert for you two.... I am a slow learner but I know when to let it go -- only took me 40+ yrs to learn when she saying at a certain way don't kick the tires walk away.. We painted it earlier so its trying to dry in the moist air we have today.. Used really cheap dollar store rattle can paints so we may be waiting a while or put a heater on it to speed things up. If you look past the runs it looks pretty snazzy for an old man ans 2 jr welders LOL. I will get a picture of it after we get it installed.. I know the boys took a couple during the build or I think they did - they may have been collecting blackmail shots for later too, who knows, they were poking at me for wearing my knee pads. It took for ever for the knees to stop hurting from the plumbing and I didn't want a repeat.