my 60 semi build

panaceabeachbum · 10-17-2006, 08:45 AM

Thanks to that hooligan buzgun I have completly drained our christmas fund to build a semi 60 , here are a few pics of my progress , I am machining the rails and trunion from scratch with all the nfa compliant features JRW incorperated in there design . Much thanks to Buzgun for helping me make heads or tails of the JRW "prints"

Preacher · 10-17-2006, 08:52 AM

I have always liked the 60. It's too bad that you can't have all the "Happy" parts to make her talk to you like she should. Good work!!!

Cephus · 10-17-2006, 08:57 AM

Great machine work !!!

Enjoy the feeling of the 60 ,even in semi it's impressive !!!

buzgun · 10-17-2006, 10:26 AM

The man has the wicked skillz that pays the billz.

Sanders · 10-17-2006, 12:31 PM

You gotta love American ingenuity.

cheezytwang · 10-17-2006, 09:11 PM

i am gonna steal that guys brain! great work panaceabum!

Pogo · 10-18-2006, 07:11 AM

Very great work. Tha's gonna be nice when yer done.

scheistermeister · 10-18-2006, 07:17 AM

You know, I'd be very tempted to trade everything I know and all my computer stuff to have the skills and tools. If only it were possible.

ptannjr · 10-18-2006, 07:22 AM

Very nice work PBB

WJH308 · 11-12-2006, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by scheistermeister

You know, I'd be very tempted to trade everything I know and all my computer stuff to have the skills and tools. If only it were possible.

LOL, thats why I hate computers and love machining. You can spend hours upon hours with both, but with machining, at the end, you have something you can physically hold in your hands. VERY nice work Panacea, love your machine tools as well.

panaceabeachbum · 12-07-2006, 10:48 AM

Thanks , I too love machining for the same reason , you end up with something cool in the end, the computers make it even better since they can operate the machine while I am off looking at por...uh...portholes, yeah thats what I meant

I am going to finish this one up next week so I can clear the bench and finish my semi FN30 and dive into the semi PKM

panaceabeachbum · 01-14-2007, 11:14 AM

down to the final fitting and assembly

panaceabeachbum · 01-17-2007, 11:17 AM

buzgun · 01-17-2007, 11:25 AM

Panecea that looks Great!

The Trunnion looks just like a GI one , you are VERY skilled sir!!!!

There is something about the "LOOK" of the older M60 that i cant describe but i like it more than the E3 version , probably all those Vietnam photos i looked at on the school library computer.

I am sorry i forgot to send you the photos of the riveting tools , do you still need them?

Let me know and i promise to send them to you this time.

panaceabeachbum · 01-18-2007, 08:46 AM

I would like to see a pic of the jigs to kind of get my bearing before I start riveting. I still need to make the pivot pins for the trip assembly in the left rail and drill the channel to match and do all the bolt mods . I also need to find an early style bbl lever with the detent ball

10-17-2006, 08:45 AM	#1
panaceabeachbum Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: florida Posts: 61	my 60 semi build Thanks to that hooligan buzgun I have completly drained our christmas fund to build a semi 60 , here are a few pics of my progress , I am machining the rails and trunion from scratch with all the nfa compliant features JRW incorperated in there design . Much thanks to Buzgun for helping me make heads or tails of the JRW "prints" __________________ www.thompsonmachine.net/gun.htm

10-17-2006, 08:52 AM	#2
Preacher Chaplain/Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: West Virginia Posts: 11,321	I have always liked the 60. It's too bad that you can't have all the "Happy" parts to make her talk to you like she should. Good work!!! __________________ You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. Ronald Reagan - 1964 ------------------------------------- Bunker Member #4.

10-17-2006, 08:57 AM	#3
Cephus The OLD COOT one and only Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Glovers Gap WV Posts: 10,277	Great machine work !!! Enjoy the feeling of the 60 ,even in semi it's impressive !!! __________________ FREEDOM ONLY ACCEPTS ONE PRICE AND THAT IS BLOOD

10-17-2006, 12:31 PM	#5
Sanders Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 66,557	You gotta love American ingenuity. __________________ "The truly dangerous man dresses inconspicuously and is soft- spoken. He walks away from most confrontations. The only time you learn that the truly dangerous man is mad at you is a split second before you die, for he never fights. He only kills. The truly dangerous man knows that fighting is what children do and killing is what men do." - Charley Reese 1986 3

10-17-2006, 09:11 PM	#6
cheezytwang Gunsmith Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 956	i am gonna steal that guys brain! great work panaceabum! __________________ the "Oddball" of the Dirty Dozen!! Get ready.

10-17-2006, 10:26 AM	#4
buzgun slug Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 25,638	The man has the wicked skillz that pays the billz.

10-18-2006, 07:11 AM	#7
Pogo Mystic Knight of the Sea Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: The Great Swamp Posts: 82,000	Very great work. Tha's gonna be nice when yer done. __________________ .................................................. ....................................… *We have met the enemy, and he is us!*

10-18-2006, 07:17 AM	#8
scheistermeister Throbbing Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,727	You know, I'd be very tempted to trade everything I know and all my computer stuff to have the skills and tools. If only it were possible.

10-18-2006, 07:22 AM	#9
ptannjr Just a dude! Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ocala, Fl Posts: 6,059	Very nice work PBB __________________ Consider this, Amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic http://www.OcalaCarAudio.com

12-07-2006, 10:48 AM	#11
panaceabeachbum Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: florida Posts: 61	Thanks , I too love machining for the same reason , you end up with something cool in the end, the computers make it even better since they can operate the machine while I am off looking at por...uh...portholes, yeah thats what I meant I am going to finish this one up next week so I can clear the bench and finish my semi FN30 and dive into the semi PKM

01-14-2007, 11:14 AM	#12
panaceabeachbum Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: florida Posts: 61	down to the final fitting and assembly

01-17-2007, 11:17 AM	#13
panaceabeachbum Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: florida Posts: 61

01-17-2007, 11:25 AM	#14
buzgun slug Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 25,638	Panecea that looks Great! The Trunnion looks just like a GI one , you are VERY skilled sir!!!! There is something about the "LOOK" of the older M60 that i cant describe but i like it more than the E3 version , probably all those Vietnam photos i looked at on the school library computer. I am sorry i forgot to send you the photos of the riveting tools , do you still need them? Let me know and i promise to send them to you this time. __________________ Better Dead than Red

01-18-2007, 08:46 AM	#15
panaceabeachbum Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: florida Posts: 61	I would like to see a pic of the jigs to kind of get my bearing before I start riveting. I still need to make the pivot pins for the trip assembly in the left rail and drill the channel to match and do all the bolt mods . I also need to find an early style bbl lever with the detent ball