Kolt380 Re-boot - Keeping on keeping on...

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[@revenantio4919]

Maybe I will never build a gun... but watching someone with creativity & capability to build is really fun. Can't wait to see it working :)

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Happy to have you along for the ride.

[@surendrabullets483]

It's not difficult,,,handgun making is very easy process,,,if u have proper tools and knowledge

[@mr.spadedheart9634]

Amazing truly innovative, I believe that is the key, if you can make a pistol without welding is the most ideal, doable, realistic, efficient and do it yourself friendly way to go and last but not least great invention given by you to the common folk, your average humble garden variety MAN thanks you.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Thanks for the nice comments. I was looking through a box of parts yesterday and came across three former/discarded versions. I'm learning and innovating as I go. It's taking far longer than I envisioned, however, once complete, it should be a very easy and repeatable build.

[@mr.spadedheart9634]

You're sincerely welcome, and yes repeatable is really the focus, once I had watched your video for the first time just over a year ago I truly felt confident I could repeat it. Thankfully I have been able to do just that and yes with limited fancy tools as you mentioned it has been a challenge but thanks to your inspiration I now have a nicely used drill press, bench grinder and new but inexpensive arc welder. The biggest challenge was realizing at least in my opinion that the measurements on the plans are not accurate but close and I'm guessing that's for legal reasons maybe as to not give a full on instructional and have liability problems. Maybe you will be able to answer one question I have, for someone who is just starting off and has never completed a build would you say in order to get the measurements correct or at least not have to back track to much , Would making the magazine be the best part to start off with?

[@clintonwestwood5498]

@@mr.spadedheart9634 Yes, the magazine is the heart of the beast

[@mr.spadedheart9634]

@@clintonwestwood5498 thank you, look forward to future builds

[@mikeblair2594]

I would have just used the rat tail file anyway. Machines make work "easier" until you screw up. That your back to the beginning. I build custom flintlock firearms and the only power tool I have is a drill press. Im a blacksmith, so I forge what I need and punch what holes I need undersized just so I know where I'm going.

[@DarkBearChan]

Nice job looks great

[@petittoto7433]

I come very late... but I think you could have left a little bit more meat for the front screw. If you have a small dent in the front it would not disturb the look or the functionality but be stronger.

[@crazyguy7585]

i love you work

[@doubtingthomas1312]

💜💜💜

[@saphar5958]

What do you use for the body parts steel or aluminium

[@gp6957]

Sir, i want to make rifling machine for personal use. Will you help me...plz

[@davidperdomo917]

Como podemos conseguir las medidas

[@jesusoftheapes]

Please stop using phillips screw heads . It's not a real pistol if it has phillips screw heads anywhere on the thing . You have made a masterpiece and then screwed it together with phillips screws . Please change it . Just a suggestion not a gripe ! You do you in the end and I love what you made here . I would love to see you make a rifle now . Your rifling machine is beyond great !

[@andrewmackenzie5814]

How can someone legally purchase a piece from you?

[@douglasamaral7597]

Qual material vc usa

[@m.h.p.ecycles5351]

Are you canadian by any chance?

[@adaojosesilva8628]

Nao sei se voce entende portugues mas voce poderia legendar os seus videos .Ja vi varios videos com resposta em portugues obrigado

[@ajijjatoliya1139]

Moth full explain video

[@rdxgaming4098]

How much for one 32mm pistol

[@Wijpke1]

IT TAKES A LOT OF DETERMINATION AND SKILL TO BUILD AND DESIGN A PISTOL I ADMIRE YOU

[@adaojosesilva8628]

Nao sei se vc fala e enetnde a lingua portu

[@JRC54]

I absolutely love your work, I never miss a upload. Thank you and keep up the hard work, can't wait to see it finished.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

I've got a full week planned. Day job has settled for the moment. Next week is vacation. Look out:)

[@1anthonybrowning]

I love watching you builds progress. I think it was Thomas Edison who was asked how he made it through a thousand failures before getting the electric light right. I think his response was there weren’t a thousand failures, he found a thousand ways that didn’t work. We all know how spectacularly his persistence paid off.

[@rdtradecraft]

Clinton, Congrats, and Well-wishes on 6 million views. Your work absolutely deserves it. I am finding myself watching and re-watching these videos They are really informative and really interesting. You demonstrate every time that building a quality gun is possible for the garage workshop gunsmith willing to put in the time and effort. That is a tribute to your craftsmanship.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

I agree that if you go slow, think carefully and are willing to redo mistakes, a quality firearm can be built with minimal tools. But, one must be prepared to read, read and read some more, do the research and ask questions. These skills are within all of us if encouraged. The inner craftsman can leak out of anyone if patience is employed. Most of all have fun. I'm hoping that these videos encourage some other inner craftsman.

[@jasonstone9624]

I'm still here man, will be until the end!.

[@AmateurRedneckWorkshop]

Congratulations on the 6 million views. That is a great achievement. I guess you probably know this but wd-40 is a great lubricant for tools that are cutting aluminum. The wd-40 prefers the steel cutting tool and protects it from the aluminum that would stick to it. Diesel does the same thing. Thanks for the plug.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

It didn't seem to work this time. The burr cutting edge is scalloped. I wonder if that had some bearing on the issue. NP on the plug. I enjoy, so hoping others will as well. Thanks for the congrats. I'm astounded.

[@stevenpaddybwoy]

I watch your videos with same level of excitement as the next game of thrones episode.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

And no one loses their head:)

[@ntsims01]

This is great fun to watch! Keep on keeping on keeping.

[@geralddorrian100]

Your building completely free style, there is no shame in a reboot! Rock on

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Thanks for that.

[@Topidop92]

What can I say, what you have done here is really really really impressive and I've watching all your video with happiness.

[@panzermacher]

Yes, nobody cares about your minuscule screw ups, everyone just wants to watch this awesome home build in progress.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Very encouraging to hear. Thanks.

[@jesusoftheapes]

@@clintonwestwood5498 Builders know screw ups are just part of the process . It is how things get done . You do you and let the haters hate . They will not stop hating no matter what you do .

[@TuppenceMorris]

Hi clinton. When using carbide burrs on aluminium there are burrs made specifically for aluminium that have a single spiral flute pattern rather than the cross hatch pattern ones you used. They work much faster and tend not to load up. Hopefully you see this

[@transdetendal]

super to realize how easy a replica non firing gun is to make frommetal instead of wood or paper ! awesome vids with a heepload of cool info !!

[@panzermacher]

not a replica

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Hmm, I don't think I would expend the effort on a non-functioning item.

[@getitdonegarage]

Excellent work for diy

[@robertdeepeart]

If you use WD40 or some wax on those bur bits it will help prevent it from loading up with aluminum. Nice build, it looks good.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

That's normally what I do. The extremely high speed seems to have slung it off. I tried bees wax as well.

[@manopablomic]

Very good

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Thanks

[@oneproudbrowncoat]

I'm still most interested in the hammer, sear, & disconnect assembly.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Parts fab will be easy. Spring fab, gauge and rate will be troublesome.

[@oneproudbrowncoat]

Clinton Westwood It's the fit-up I'm waiting for, I guess- I'll be checking it against the modeling I've done.

[@wolfwind9658]

I have considered making a sheet metal mac 11 but the only plans I can find are full auto so I would have to modify them accordingly.

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

Look at MPA's semi auto closed bolt design. Very simple.

[@jameskray4368]

Nice work Clinton keep it up

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Keeping on keeping on... quoting Harold. kzbin.info/door/XqgfiBEI5J5-VDwmKHFaNQ

[@jerrybrasington8167]

You should try to make a rifle for your next project

[@ThatOneHumanMale]

A rifle would be cool

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Maybe not the next one, but sometime in the future.

[@WH250398]

A bolt action one would be cool

[@wonderoushistoryofclassicf9193]

WH250398 would be hard tho

[@timclingenpeel7791]

Your videos are awesome. Really enjoy them. I do have a question. Are you building 2 of the same frame? One from solid and one that is from sheet stock. Or maybe I missed something along the way. Thank you

[@clintonwestwood5498]

The solid was the initial attempt. Discarded. The "laminate" version 2 replaced it. The 2.1 is a minor revision.

[@johnmcgregor6000]

Clinton, following up on 'Oneproudbrowncoat's post of a month or so ago.I'm most interested in how you approach the Firing Group. I have built up 'proof models' of Dr Parabellum's original and my suspicion's about it's geometry and spring arrangement (hammer, sear AND disconnect)seem to be born out...it just doesn't work! I've re-designed the firing group to my satisfaction, borrowing (ancient) technology from the 1911-A1and am in the process of modelling it. Keep up the good work.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Yes, I'm a little concerned. I can visualize the intent, but not sure if I can make it work. I suspect it'll be a two stage push on the disconnect. First contact to release the sear and the second push to slide the disconnect back. However, I haven't even modeled it on a board yet.

[@johnmcgregor6000]

For what it's worth, I fixed up the good doctor's geometry and made it work, but then comes the spring problems! There is a hell of a long throw required for the hammer and the coiled spring as shown just doesn't cut it! John Browning's scheme of a contained compression spring with a push-rod to the hammer could be made to work for the Kolt 380. The sear and disconnect springs will also require some re-thinking. Here is a link to some excellent drawings for the 1911-A1 brlcad.org/design/drafting/M1911-A1_REDUX.pdf

[@Zestybwoi]

Hi Clinton, what's your opinion on 3d printing a functional model of a gun and doing a lost PLA cast with those parts? Good or bad idea?

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Lots of extra steps. There would still be machining involved. Would accommodate more complex shapes though. For the less talented of us, stock materials and known alloys are more accurate and reliable.

[@Zestybwoi]

Thanks for the input, I suppose that would be a very ambitious project.

[@kylesgarden8725]

Beautiful

[@clintonwestwood5498]

thanks for the kind word

[@tinkeringclaws5559]

If its a bolt together frame which part is considered the actual gun?

[@clintonwestwood5498]

I don't have an answer to that. In this DIY world, things get very confused.

[@KrystoHartge]

I think it would be lower assembly with the trigger group.

[@jonathansponsler6839]

Can you put links for the things you buy like the bures and magazine

[@clintonwestwood5498]

I can try. Most stuff is local without internet reference. The burrs... www.gripontools.net/store/product.php?id=35133

[@gregj6542]

You are uploading early today!

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Made good progress in the last two days. Too much video building up:)

[@tomharrell1954]

You just use the piece as a jig. Manufacturing has done that for ever. Unskilled labor can follow a jig layout fast and cheaply.

[@charsfm5203]

Do you listen to music while building?

[@nickdannunzio7683]

Let us see Clinton Westwood... Is your nickname (something like) Clean Harry... or Peaceful Yates...??? (anybody else get this?)

[@clintonwestwood5498]

I didn't get the reference to "Yates".

[@admiralpercy]

Just one question: are you in Canada?

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Not at the moment, why?

[@admiralpercy]

Clinton Westwood Just assuming based on your accent, and wondering regarding the laws up there.

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Too funny. I've been tagged as such before. I'm thinking it's the combination of Northwest and possibly Danish influence. I really can't speak to Canadian gun laws. I think they can have rifles.

[@vuongquoctrinh7861]

What it is material ,? Thank .

[@clintonwestwood5498]

Aluminum for the frame. Various steels for everything else.

[@arbremagique6253]

can i buy you one ?

[@clintonwestwood5498]

At some point a kit maybe for sale. Not at this moment though. Still under development. Lots of development.

[@arbremagique6253]

uhmm ok

[@jerrybrasington8167]

First comment

[@clintonwestwood5498]

very quick.

[@yazmicro5110]

make rpg

[@clintonwestwood5498]

ahh nope. sorry.

[@tinkeringclaws5559]

Clinton Westwood Rocket propelled spear gun?

[@lanchanoinguyen2914]

i think we shall ban the ammunition instead of gun,they can manufacture gun in home but ammo.