Post your Homemade Tools for Guns

[jmorris]

The carriage that slides back and forth has a “roof” on top to keep the next round in the tube from falling while mooning the previous. The feed tube is long enough to hold six rounds and is notched as above to demoon as well.

 

[Clark]

http://www.commencefiring.com/files/Videos/mooner.mpg

jmorris The carriage that slides back and forth has a “roof” on top to keep the next round in the tube from falling while mooning the previous. The feed tube is long enough to hold six rounds and is notched as above to demoon as well.

They are coming down from above.
The part that pushes the cartridge into the moon clip also blocks the next round from falling.
It is so obvious now that I know the answer.

 

[WNTFW]

Neat suff you all have done.

I built a lot of things for non-gunsmith application. Things like flywheel removers, etc. I do a lot jigs & fixtures at work. My two favorites were a tool to disassemble freewheels on bicycles and a tool that would make a whole roll of wire into a stack of wire that was bent, measured & cut.

About the only thing I did was make a bore guide for shotguns using an empty shell. The shell is of the 1 piece design. No big deal & not an original thought. It does keep the rod from scraping. I doesn't need to seal as the barrel is removed. I was too cheap to buy a bore snake for shotguns.

Nothing hard core like what y'all do.

Later,
WNTFW

 

[Clark]

This drawing from the 1965 book, Introduction to Gunsmithing by Macfarland, was an inspiration for me to build action wrenches for myself and friends.

I have now improved upon that design, by cutting a relief to get the tightening bolts in the same plane as the rear of the large ring. This keeps from putting a side bind on the bolts in their clearance holes in the V block.