Building the Coffee Mill Gun

[kenpo333]

Great to see the project together and see it fire. Have been watching since you started and have to admit that I don't know anyone else that could have done that! Congratulations!

 

[kstone803]

You're an artist. Thanks for sharing this with us. Are you planning to take this around to shows or was it just built as a hobby/toy?

 

[Enfield303]

Thank you for sharing this project. I too am in awe of your skills. Mike Rowe would be proud.

 

[Kirby]

Nice work

Cant wait to see it all completed......I know the work it takes.....

 

[epps1919]

Made the ammo boxes for carriage out of pine and painted OD green with brass hinges. Had to order slotted wood screws none of the local hardware stores sell them only Phillips head

 

[epps1919]

Made a table to make the wheels on. Cut out the center and fixed a short axle to hold the hub in the center and so I can use a locking collier to adjust the hub height for the dish in the wheel.

 

[CrazySanMan]

Skookum! I can't wait to see her chooch!

 

[epps1919]

Jigs for cutting the angels on the spoke ends.

 

[epps1919]

Had to turn the hubs in the lathe for the spokes. the spokes are so close together at the hub I just cut out the center and going to use shims/ wages with epoxy in the hubs between the spokes. Had to do some fine triming on the fellows with the jig set up to get them to fit just right. What a PITA that was.

 

[lx1x]

coming along nicely.

 

[StickShaker]

A lot of amazing work!

 

[jt2100r]

Amazing. Cant wait to see it done.

 

[j_h_smith]

That thing is going to be priceless once you're done. You should be very proud of your accomplishment.

 

[engineerbrian]

You have some crazy skills Epps

 

[molonlabe]

You have an awesome shop. I took a job in Wisconsin at Camtronics and they had a lathe, vertical mill, precision drill press, when I saw it I said wow I could turn my Kirby vacuume cleaner into a fully automatic rifle.. You have great skills and thanks for sharing your project.

 

[ToolAA]

Epps, thanks for posting the update. I'm still fairly new around here. When I discovered this thread was fascinated and went right to the beginning and read all the way through.

Please keep it up.

 

[StanW]

People with talent make me sick! I was just talking about this a few days ago. I'm am well pass impressed, fantastic work.

 

[epps1919]

I got the wheels all epoxied up and then put the first coat of paint on them

 

[epps1919]

the wheels will have the 3/8" x 2" hot rolled steel tire installed next also made the hitch pins for the wheels out of 3/8 round stock and 1"x 1/2" steel

 

[epps1919]

A friend of mine how owns Southern Md Arc Welding has this Bad ass roller.The roller can roll 3/4" plate steel. Well he rolled the tires for me. thanks Cook off