wamali successful test fire!
there are still imperfections, but I got it to shoot AND stay together and functional after. there will be changes still, but this is a milestone.
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wamali v3 test fire
it broke differently this time! three individual prints broke at their thin spots, one quite spectacularly flying off he back with the force of an ejected case-I didn't realize it had broken immediately this time, and the pieces that broke were all thin hack pieces that no longer even exist in their same form for the upgrades they were the models for. there's a sectio of feed ramp at the front, now separate, that cracked across a layer line, and the recoil pushed the carrier into the takedown tooth forcefully enough that the tooth, which is like a 'hand' on an arm attached around an elbow to the rear takedown pin, snapped across the thin point at the elbow. that snap also pushed the rear section of picatinny off, which is what can be seen flying off in the video.
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First Wamali Firing Test!
This is the first time that I have fired a live round through a development gun I am working on. Needless to say, this was informative!
I think the reason the gun broke is that, when it cycles, the hammer is putting too much upward pressure on the bolt carrier group. this pushes it up, which tilts the front down, moving it like a lever-against the thinnest part of the print holding the two together. obviously this needs to be thicker to pinch the two together and prevent that lever from torquing it.
The next one, with this fixed, should be printed by tomorrow.
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COMING SOON
This is a prototype print for a feed tower, for a P90-style magazine in 12 gauge. No, this is not going to feed into a P90, there are no 12 gauge P90's and I know of none being developed. There have been guns like this in the past, this is not a new invention, but it is my own independent derivation. When the files for this gun become available to print, they will be on my odysee page at https://odysee.com/@choscura:d .
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Pull back to lock, slap forward to go
This is a full DIY 3d printed gun I'm working on, called the "Beta Wamali", which is twinkie-eating-american phonetics for how you'd say, approximately, "WASSUP" in Burmese.
On a technical level, this is NOT A GUN by virtue of not being a gun YET, but as completed, will be a 9x19 blowback pistol caliber carbine (legally a pistol, which I am allowed to own, all of this is legal) (sorry but everybody asks). the barrel is made of threaded 3/4" rod, the picatinny rail at the top has a 1/4"x20 threaded rod running the length of it, the bolt carrier group is made from threaded rod, flat steel bar, and standard sized cast iron pipe- all as you'd get at the hardware store, or the junk yard, or from the corner of nearly any garage.
This is still a work in progress, but videos of it firing will be coming soon, and files will be available for download.
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