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[Railgun]

I got myself a nice black-green washed vertical feed Phantom from one of the other members a few months back. I was shocked when I saw the stack arrangement it had in stock form. From a previous deal I had gotten a nice clamping feedneck that I didn't really have a use for but once I saw how easy it would be to fit it to the Phantom I decided to go for it.

In the first picture the two necs are set up to show the stack height. That's almost an inch and a half difference.

The second picture shows the setup I used for the machining. It's very tight and many test turns were done with hand power to test for any body to machine strikes or chuck jaw to carraige strikes. The cut even needed to be done in two stages to let me relocate the cutting tool and avoid hitting the flailing body against the traveling carraige.

The third is the successful parting off operation. The black tubeing is bicycle brake housing. I passed it through the cocking rod hole and through the feedneck and into the headstock. It wobbled around as the body turned but it did the job and held the body from falling into the bowels of the lathe and risking getting dinged. The duct tape was there just in case it pivoted and tried to ding itself on the hard parts.

The last is the completed feedneck installed and almost ready to play. A shallow cut was made around the neck as a rear sighting marker that will work with a raised barrel tip sight for aiming. I feel I need that since with my hand on the pump handle I just don't have a good feel for where it's pointed. But the good news is that you can see how much lower it is and that translates to a tighter exposure and hopefully less of an issue with the originally high mounted hopper signalling the rising head and gun that's coming up to take a shot.

I partly lucked out on the fit. It was supposed to be a snug push fit but there was some sort of distortion in the neck such that it ended up requireing my bench vise to push the neck into place. It's tight enough that I'm no longer going to use the setscrews to hold it in place. Just a drop of thin CA glue to weld it together and some black epoxy resin to fill in the holes and feather in the base of the feedneck where the threads and weld show.

Next is some black heatshrink for the long braided line, make up that front clamp on sight and it's ready for play.

[gunner79]

WOW that is really impressive work, i am glad she is still turning heads

[Legion]

Great Job!!!

[Flatline's Up!]

very nice work and a big +1 for keeping the anno clean

[russc]

Nice job Bruce, have you considered an undercocking kit? I'm sure it would look great considering how your Sniper's pump turned out.

[Railgun]

It may well get one somewhere along the way. The only issue being that it would have to mount off the trigger guard and I'd want to anodize it to match the rest of the body and frame.

And some form of exotic hardwood for the pump handle and grips of course....

THis is the project that was sidelined in favour of your KP stock. that should make the troops curious... but they are just going to have to wait since I don't have pictures of it yet other than what Mark took.