A collection of posts often on colt E- and I-frame revolvers: pythons, model 357s, officer model specials, etc. Topics not limited to: action jobs, fixing Bubba-gone-wrong gunsmith mistakes, and revolver porn. And sometimes I'll wander off the reservation and type random nouns and verbs that have nothing to do with our sole purpose, because who the hell can really pay attention that long?

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Finally: unimat 3 is up and running.



Finally, my unumat 3 is running. I didn't know much about them when I bought it on ebay and it turns out it had been completely stripped of all needed parts, other than the motor. Finally got the belts today, so put them on, fussed with some other stuff longer than needed (I have the manual, but it remains unread) and then started cutting.

I got 40lbs of carbide lathe tools very cheap recently, and fortunately a bunch of them seem to more-or-less fit the tool holder.

It's so small I'm not quite sure how to use it for colts, other than making slightly larger than stock rebound pins for guns that have expanded holes.

Here it is making nothing in particular besides brass shavings:






It looks like even the bed was replaced w/ cheap aluminum. Hopefully things can be done.

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