Dcommoncents Wrote:Its not pretty, but I can certainly appreciate ingenuity. If you weld, you can get even more creative. I need to get a bottle of argon before I can start welding aluminum, but once I do I'm going to take a crack at home made muzzle devices and light mounts out of materials available at lowes, etc.
I have TIG welder and have practised with aluminum. It seems fairly easy if you have at least 10 hours of steel TIG experience.
The PVC was more about quick builds to get the barrel to the range to see how it shoots and a cold weather solution for hunting (less thermal conductivity).
The last two electrical builds I posted (16" 6.5 Grendel and 24" 223) now seem to be permanent.
They function well enough so I don't care for a commercial handguard on them.
The buttstock on the pistol lower I posted first is not together. It will be temporary if I need it.