Got setup number four on the CS12-80 Lower Receivers done yesterday evening, no scrap was made. Setup number five is incoming, maybe this weekend, but likely first of the coming week. No new pictures, you’ve[…]

Got started on Setup 4 on the CS12-80 Lower Receivers last week and am now rolling on them pretty well.   Should be done with this setup middle of next week.  That will leave setups[…]

Got the replacement lowers all caught up to the rest of the batch, so now all of them can proceed onward to Setup #4.   Doing the programming for it now, so should be running[…]

OK, so the good news is, setup three on the lowers is done . . . for most of the batch. The bad news is that I scrapped enough bars in this setup that I’m[…]

As the title says, setup 3 on the lower receivers is in-progress and moving along nicely.   This is another long one, nearly 50 mins per cycle, so it’s going to take a while to[…]

As the title says, the second setup on the CS12-80 lowers is now done. No pictures, as it was not particularly interesting, just doing the counterbores that are needed for setup 3, but they’re all[…]

Got the first setup for the lower receivers done, now working on the fixture plate for setups two and three. Here’s a pic of the last few bars coming out of setup 1:    […]

We’re moving along on the CS12-80 project, this time with the Lower Receivers. Setup 1 on the lowers is underway and moving pretty quickly for a change. Here are a few pictures of the proving[…]

At long last, the Upper Receivers for the CS12-80 project are finished.   Here are a few pictures of Combined Setup 4/5:   First two are of the softjaws for setup 5 where I inserted[…]

CS12-80 Production Upper Setup 3 is done.  Has been for about a week and a half actually.   Found a way to combine setups 4 & 5, but I had to buy some tools and[…]