Anyone figure this out yet? I’m losing my mind. I saw chairmanwon was working on a jig but it never released and I looked around for a beta but didn’t find anything on DDRC or BLC.
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Once this is figured out it will be revolution in the world of homemade guns. Designs will quickly replace all ruger parts with Glock gen3 alternatives by modifying the flat slightly to fit the geometry. I’m following and waiting for this to be solved with excitement.
Did you bend the top one (I’m judging by the straight rails), if so what are the issues with it ? I was under impression that that rails need to be bent last and it should be the easiest part (maybe I’m wrong).
well, i bent that one by hand with the jigs and a vise. i have a feeling if i give it the ol hammer treatment that it will get some tighter bends as that is the main issue, just isn’t tight enough, not defined enough. the bends are just gentle curves. i also don’t have a press, which i need to get, as i think some metal scs parts and a press to give the flats the ol squish is the ticket. i could probably get a passable one with a hammer, but that was the result of my primitive bends without beating the fuck out of it with a hammer. i’m going to give it another go one of these days.
The whole point of this is to design a hand bendable solution. Sure we can bend it perfectly with press and what not but that will filter out 95% of the people. To be honest the bends you have look pretty good (just from the picture), remember the RXM frame will also provide some support and alignment for parts which are not perfect, as long as the rails are leveled, slide slides and locking block + trigger housing fits in this should be golden.
i need to pickup the magpul frame and the OEM internal parts required. i just printed the locking block and rear trigger housing to test. i may have a larger vise downstairs that would be able to bend using my jigs a little better. idk, work in progress.
are you able to build a functioning/reliable RXM with your manual bends ?
i don’t have the rest of the parts to try unfortunately. that’ll be something i’ll be working on acquiring soon but i just picked up a centauri carbon so it will be a little.
cool… well hopefully you and others can prime the wider conversation so the community can get started on documenting a complete build. even if it includes manually bending a flat to where it’s ‘good enough’ to insert and then run.
what is that plastic print in your picture ?
in this photo or my profile pic?
the picture in your first post… it there is a plastic print between the flat and the insert. what is that plastic print ? is it used to bend the flat ?
yeah just some test jigs i was playing with.
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