Friday, June 22, 2012

Machinist School - Graduate Nate Langford says:



This is what we're making at work right now. It's the slide for a Wilson .45 pistol; we're doing the standard size and compact. There's a lot of operations involved, but that just makes it more interesting .
We're just making the slides and frames for the standard size and the compact version of the .45 and 9mm 1911. I'm not sure which long slides you're talking about. After seeing what kind of tolerances we keep on these parts, I can see why they're expensive. Our wire EDM machine is cutting out the profiles for the firing selectors on AR-15's. Fun stuff :D http://wilsoncombat.com/new/handgun-classic.asp

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sometimes cows jump over the moon but then, when the moon is hidden, the cow doesn't know where to jump.

Anonymous said...

Good point! I sometimes have wondered why cows just stand in the pasture on dark nights. -Thanx!