I have an ancient Martini-Enfield that I haven't had the opportunity to shoot yet...

Perhaps you should associate the physical phenomena that occur in a hybrid, with machines that produce mechanical energy in the same way, but that are something else, for example an internal combustion engine. It has there, a fuel, air, a spark plug and an explosion, in a cylinder. Imagine a motorcy...

Now I am hooked.. Yesterday I found two Italian WW2 paratrooper helmets on a slope of a local mountain. This region where I live was under Italian military occupation from 1941 until Italy capitulated in 1943. Judging by the shape, I am pretty sure they were manufactured for paratroopers. My grandfa...

It's been a while that I've been looking for a smallish milling machine to go with my smallish lathe(s). Yes, I am aware that the chinese make some fairly capable small milling machines. But I simply don't like them. Horrible yucky plastic tat. Id far rather something made of great big chunks of cas...

So, spent some time stripping down a bit. Managed to unblock the tooling and the Z axis, (hooray for hand winches), loking at the scraping marks on the slideways and gibs I thought to myself "that's been rescraped", but given the way the gibs fit, I'd be surprised if it's done many hours from new. D...

You need something to induce turbulence! Some experimentation was definitely in order, so I machined a Delrin cup to fit the chamber with a 1/4" orifice through the base: 20231206_213324.jpg baffling.png I fired a series of shots and the results were quite interesting. The first thing I did was rep...

I had this project in mind for quite some time, and I have finally finished it. This is this .22 caliber pistol that fires common pellets, associated with a rupture disc. The advantage is that the weapon can be supplied in the same way as a common, commercial compressed air gun. It has an inverted l...