[Bondo_Red]

My friend now owns all the stuff in his garage,which was a workshop for his dad.So we have the tools to make pretty much anything.I'm thinking I want to make a slingshot.A good one with a metal frame,We have welding torches,grinders,pretty much anything you can think of.Any other weapons we could make?

[pdowg881]

a gun

[Spiggy]

an armored bus complete with anti-zombie grates featuring a locked in chainsaw

[Zeke Menuar]

An AR-15

ZM

[hso]

Knives, axes, swords, batons, saps, ...

[kellyj00]

how about a milling machine? if so, make your own ar-15's lowers for about $30.

[Coronach]

Yeah, the answer is "pretty much anything." Cruise missiles might be hard. Nukes would be an exception.

Now, what can you LEGALLY make? Many more restrictions, but you can make guns (just make sure you do it legally, others will know the details).

Behold, the futility of gun control, in one thread.

Mike

[mossberg]

Let your imagination run wild and good luck!

[carpettbaggerr]

"Dude we can fix it, my dad's got an awesome set of tools."
:)


Belt-feds are nice.

[Damien45]

Rent all seasons of the A-Team and get some ideas! lol

Seriously, I would look into making parts that sell well.

[Bondo_Red]

I'm thinkin we could make slingshots to start.but the awesome ones that go 2 hundred feet.I know we would need surgical tubing,what should we use for the frame though?I'm assuming some sort of light metal that we shape into a Y.

[Stickjockey]

How about a 12-pound Mountain Howitzer?

http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm

[musher]

Cruise missiles might be hard

Apparently not THAT hard!

A DIY Cruise Missile (http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/diary.shtml)

[Onmilo]

Any good machinist can make any parts no problem.
The problem lies with not too many people can properly heat treat, stress relieve, and cosmetically surface finish the parts properly.

I have been a machinist and gunsmith for the better part of twenty years and I still don't own my own gas fired heat treat furnace, don't do my own surface finishing because of OSHA and EPA regulations, and have no clue how one goes about anodizing aluminum with garage technology.

I could build a firearm lock, stock and barrel and if it was to shoot modern smokeless powder loads I might could guarantee it for maybe twenty rounds.

After that and no heat treating it would probably fracture or worse.

This isn't the real problem.
The real problem is very very few people have the means to produce quality centerfire primers.
Smokeless powder is fairly easy.
Any chemist with access to a spectroanalyzer could duplicate smokeless powders close enough.
Decent black gunpowder is even easier to produce though a whole lot more dangerous.
Cartridge cases can be turned out one at a time on a lathe and you can make bullet mold cherries on a lathe or a mill equipped with a dividing head and you can make bullet molds with that mold cherry, a vise, and a drill press or vertical mill.
Primers are not that easy to make reliably.

As for what you can make in that garage.
Look around and see if there are some good quality circular saw blades.
You can heat these cherry red and cold chisel a decent blade out of a circular saw blade.
Let it air cool and then grind the blade to shape.
The heat from the grinding operation will retemper the steel enough to allow a pretty decent edge holding capability.
I will leave the handle options to your own creative genius.