James M

Right, that pic is of a unibit or universal step bit. It's a drill bit that goes from 3/16" to 1/2" wide. VERY nice as it allows you to make incremental holes sizes if you need something slightly larger than what you planned. Now that's just this particular kind I have and I got it from Lowe's Superstore. Also, I happened to find some pics of the scope I made from the PVC club tutorial. Here's some preassembly Please don't open the pic looks very bad.

Yeah, I asked about it and 26 gauge is 1/2600th of an inch. I won't say razor thin but it acts like a saw blade does. Wobbly and weird noises, still I must just have a craptastic shear because they have trouble cutting. The shears will sometimes bend the metal rather than cutting it. Oh, and the shop says my camera still has the pics...but it'll be a few days before I get the camera back to post anything. Good news everybody! My paint seems to be drying well and I've applied the second coat this morning.

Ahhhh, what was it again... I thought it was aluminium but I checked and I was working with freakin' plate steel. It was 26 gauge. It's hard to cut and it mostly melted/got very hot when I used the dremmel. But once I got it down in smaller squares it was really easy to bend and hammer into shape. Also when I polished it the edges didn't need alot of work to dull them so that was good.

Ok, I started a new member intro around September and then disappeared into the archives of this and other websites. I began work on an E-11 from the various templates (mostly PVC Builders Club) and I dusted off the ol' dremmel. Just so you know as I post this my parts are drying off from the primer coats I gave them. If you haven't guessed it's taken me roughly 4 months to finish my first prototype. So anyway I was going to post some pics of my progression only to find out my camara stopped working. So while I do have pictures, it's just going to be a while before I post anything. When I first started I decided to go with the ESB version of the E-11 as it didn't require the counter and I thought the greeblies looked cool. I started going to Lowe's and ACE hardware for the parts and sat down to make the scope. I didn't have much trouble and had high hopes for the actual gun portion. My Dad was actually curious about what I was doing and once I explained it to him to he showed me a wonderous device. Called a unibit it is a greek god among mere drill bits. With it I was able to do the barrel in an hour so I thought 'Gee, this'll be done before Halloween.' What I fool I was...for after that point I had to do the metal working. That...Was...Hell! I have no real talent working with metal and it was agonizingly slow work. In fact, I'll try to edit this to show my crappy progress via pics. Here's to hoping my camera gets to working in short order.