Elkins45
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I was completely wrong about my little wood lathe!
After mucking about with the shop’s drill press and mill table-clamp-thing that did not work how I would have liked, I tried making the Blackout can at home on my lathe.
The four jaw chuck held the baffles and cap perfectly, with a small flat ledge that held them perpendicular to the chuck.
The bit of play in the tail stock was of no consequence, as the piece was spinning instead of the drill, it found the center almost automatically.
Upon assembly, the baffle concentricity was perfect!
The entire process took 20 minutes, instead of an hour. And the results were excellent!
No after assembly drilling for straightening.
Darn! I wish I would have tried the rimfire on it first!
I have fourteen perfect titanium spirals and four stainless ones.
There were five perfect coin shapes cut from the baffles, indicating perfect 90° when drilled. (And also that my lathe can press quite a bit harder than I can on the drill.)
It’s on now! Cans for everything!
And I don’t even have to go to town.
I do have to go to my father’s shop though.
Infinitely better than heading to work on a Saturday!
All done!
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These baffles are neat.
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The grit media blast popped a small hole through the cap... I pushed the small bit of metal out with a splint.
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Alright. So these are beautifully done “kits”.
Who makes an equally nice one?
I’m going to be needing a lot more rimfire kits...
There’s a guy on Form1suppressorboards.net that goes by XRT Tactical that sells a very nice one with a stainless tube and snap together baffles like the Spectre II. The end caps are aluminum but they are LH thread so the can doesn’t unscrew itself when you’re tightening it. That’s the one I built this summer.
You can (or at least you could) also get them from a reseller on New Egg, but you had to buy it in pieces and it was a few bucks more. I think I paid around $120 from XRT.
EDIT: he has a website now. https://www.xrttactical.com/shop/