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And another variation!
I bought the barrels from a gentleman named Dave Burnett. He is fairly active on the forum page on the www.gatlingguns.net site. They are used Ruger 10-22 barrels that Dave saws to roughly 13" long and turns to around 0.565" diameter. The plans call for 12" x 0.500" diameter barrels. I paid around $165 for them including shipping.Wondering where you got the barrels from.
Hi Ron,I have ben building one for a couple of years now. Progress has been a little slow partly because I only work on it part of the year. The other months we are at the seashore. Also at my age I don't have the stamina to spend more that 2-3 hours at a time in the shop.You are a little ahead of where I am. Neither am I interested in a true replica. I'm almost ready to test fire, at least a single barrel at a time. I have encountered all the problems that others have because of drawing errors and ambiguity. In my state the maximum allowable mag. capacity is ten rounds. A big disappointment but I'll live with it. I made the barrels as per print and had no significant problems. I don't plan on building the "spray" version. Also slowing things down is some special tooling that I built like jigs and fixtures and also a cylindrical grinding attachment for my surface grinder which I used to OD grind the bolts. I know it wasn't absolutely necessary but it was just something I wanted to do.
i did not notch the barrels for the extractors like the prints showed but cut a straight bevel across the back. Across the back I'm sure you know that others are turning a chamfer all the way around the back of the barrels. That seems interesting but I already had mine done by the time I heard about that method. I also changed the lead angle on the extractors to 45 degrees and seems to work OK so far. I just never liked the 15 degree angle on the prints. I'm sure you are aware of the Gatling gun forum on line
that is a good source of information especially on workarounds because of drawing errors.
Ron
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