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Sweet. Good information there. Heading out now to pick up some aluminium tube for mine. 40mm x 3mm wall.

What's the one on the right, Aaron? Although it looks too big...

He's ^^ the man that knows! I don't see any problems for basic approval either. It also looks like your hand plates are strapped around your wrist, rather than the palm of your hand. If your GML is picky they may get you to retake photos with them lowered.

Yep, optional accessory in the CRL. Some countries don't allow blasters/imitation guns, full stop, so it's not mandatory for basic approval.

Never seen one like that - most just use fly mesh. I used metal fly mesh. However if you want to do it, just find your metal you like, bend it to shape, cut it to fit and glue it in.

Awesome work Aaron. Looks awesome. Looks great with some real bits in there.

Don't rush. Remember, you don't need a blaster for TK approval - only EIB/Centurion.

You could always did the end caps in a hot bath. That will soften them up a bit to allow them to push on more.

Haha, so if you didn't test it, you would have had the same result anyway. Thought you stuffed it up and tried to fix your stuff up with polish. When you come to think of it 400-600 is still quite course. I use 1000-1200 on a lot of plastic kit building stuff I do.

Jeez, Derrek.... Your making me think here. Yes, local Aussie ebay has 40mm OD x 34mm ID aluminium tube for not a lot of $$. You main 3 items - inner bolt, front muzzle and rear cap lock all have about a 33-34mm diameter, so would be perfect. Might have to put this build on hold for a bit.

I did. That was my first thought, and I have the Ikea table leg in the garage. However it's only 1.1mm thick compared to 2.6mm so your inner bolt is a bit loose and the front and rear ends are also loose. Seems like they were made for PVC. But mainly it wouldn't be thick enough to allow the use of securing pins. I am skeptical, as Steve was, to the strength of expoxy on it's own. It won't be my main trooping weapon, but it will certainly get a lot of use 'showing off' to my mates...

Great idea using the headphone jacks Brian. I would really love the clicking into position switch aswell. I've got one idea, just not sure if I could pull it off...

Ah yep. Like you said in a previous post, just gotta get past the stage before you put the tracks on. And test your sanding on an offcut obviously.

Bit hard to tell from those pics Aaron, did you tackle the little ridges around the holes yet?

This is the stuff I have at the moment - JB Weld Steel Reinforced Epoxy. World's strongest, even! 3960psi http://www.jbweld.com/product/j-b-weld/

Good idea Aaron. I'll have a closer look at that tonight. Worse case I could drill a small hole in the receiver wall to gain access with the screwdriver, then fill it prior to painting. I've already done this to accommodate a charging handle mod I've got under way. I would just have to make sure the screw heads don't foul the movement of the inner bolt. Already given both parts of the arm/bracket a going over to minimise binding. Operates nicely .

Wow, looks awesome! Great photography too.

Thanks Tino and Aaron. That was my exact concern too. However it is exactly the same size and fitment method if I used the DVH hinge bracket and others that I've spoken to suggest that an epoxy type glue will mate the the metal to PVC as effectively as resin to PVC. I will be using locating pins aswell. If it fails, then I guess I can try the DVH resin bracket. Any other thoughts seeing as it isn't preformed like a Doopy kit?

For $38K, it'd have to be your trooping weapon, surely.

Haha, I edited my post at the same time as you quoted me. Can't remember exactly what I said, but that was part of it.

Sorry, first reply wasn't relevant after Gino's reply... It's just great that we are getting more and more options available to us builders. And as previously touched on, the only likely way prices are going to come down is with more competition, so more the merrier in my opinion. Individuals can judge for themselves what they like the look of best and how much their willing to pay.

Or PM him at "ABS80". He's always on the forums.

You probably won't get the ridges to match up. Not many do. Just get it looking right, use as many clamps as needed and get glue wherever you can. Nice blaster too. Is that the rubies one?

But that detail was dropped from the CRL some time ago which now specifies a 45 degree angle, which is either 13x13 or 10x10. As Steve says, just eyeball it till it looks right.

I was holding the skewer with the bracket on it, whilst my buddy handled the Oxy. Getting hot Receiver portion gone! I'm guessing the gold colour is the remains of the brazing compound used to fuse the parts together. All that will be cleaned off with the dremel/sandpaper before fixing to the PVC pipe. That instalment to come later. No locating nub, as mentioned previous post. Shouldn't be a drama.