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ECCO Machine doing the Lord’s work (Page 7 of 11)
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I have tried to explain to others what it is like waiting for my can. "You remember when you learned when santa was not real? And you knew your parents were going to get you the one thing you wanted? And it was still July???" Yeah. I am much more patient at 30, but my inner child is dying. |
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Originally Posted By USAFtacFANAC: I have tried to explain to others what it is like waiting for my can. "You remember when you learned when santa was not real? And you knew your parents were going to get you the one thing you wanted? And it was still July???" Yeah. I am much more patient at 30, but my inner child is dying. It was the same feeling at 57. 
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Originally Posted By USAFtacFANAC: Good, it is the little things in life that make a man happy haha. Originally Posted By USAFtacFANAC: Originally Posted By ScottsGT: It was the same feeling at 57. Good, it is the little things in life that make a man happy haha. The older you get the less time you have to wait. So you are much in a hurry. Waiting for my F4 cans I used to say I might die before they get approved. I had to tell others what’s was where just in the event it might happen. 
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Originally Posted By waywaup: I told him to take as long as he needs. I only bothered him to confirm the can was in his possession. It's my piece of shit Huntertown Arms Kestrel, enough said. @waywaup ballpark price to recore the Kestrel? Ive got one I would like to do something with myself |
I said "I don't understand", not "Talk slower"......
I don't work for AIM, it's just a fucking avatar moron.
I don't work for AIM, it's just a fucking avatar moron.
| I’ve got to tell you, I am REALLY impressed with Ecco machine. I sent a recore to him for some bored cones and to trim skirted cones for proper fit of said cones. I also requested that he index the cones for alignment. They communicated every step of the way in a very prompt manner. Turn around time was great. His machine work is incredibly impressive. Very pleased with how it turned out. Performance was quite better than I expected as well. |
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Originally Posted By Cali2Carolina: I’ve got to tell you, I am REALLY impressed with Ecco machine. I sent a recore to him for some bored cones and to trim skirted cones for proper fit of said cones. I also requested that he index the cones for alignment. They communicated every step of the way in a very prompt manner. Turn around time was great. His machine work is incredibly impressive. Very pleased with how it turned out. Performance was quite better than I expected as well. 
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We need to make this thread similar to the form 1 wait time thread. WHEN DID YOU SEND IT???? I NEED TO KKKKNNNOIOOOOOWWW (joking. I hope Nicks new place is where he wants it to be) Pictures would be cool though. |
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Originally Posted By NWRed: @waywaup ballpark price to recore the Kestrel? Ive got one I would like to do something with myself I didn't ask, it was mid April, right in the middle of peak Covid. Mine is a 7.62AK, I wanted to do a 17-4 tubeless baffle stack to save weight, inspired by the YHM Turbo K, still keep the Omni mount since I already have the 1/2-24, 5/8-28 and 14mmLH AK thread adapters. |
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Originally Posted By USAFtacFANAC: We need to make this thread similar to the form 1 wait time thread. WHEN DID YOU SEND IT???? I NEED TO KKKKNNNOIOOOOOWWW (joking. I hope Nicks new place is where he wants it to be) Pictures would be cool though. Hell no! You trying to ruin a good thing?? Let's not pressure the man. I feel honored to have one of his reworks and I'm not going to get greedy and start having him build more.... ....at this time. 
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Originally Posted By ScottsGT: Hell no! You trying to ruin a good thing?? Let's not pressure the man. I feel honored to have one of his reworks and I'm not going to get greedy and start having him build more.... ....at this time. I would have to imagine if he is expanding (from what I saw from an earlier post about looking for help (maybe)) he is going to go through a bitch of a process on finding someone who is on the same level as him. I expect a push back of the estimated time frame I was given and I have ZERO problem with that. I hold QC standards higher that expected time frames. Especially for a mom and pop style shop. His poor wife.... "Nick, what did you do???"...... Nick: "Good work" haha |
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That has me more excited, I know I am somewhere close in the que... Must... remain... patient... |
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Wow, Nick is way faster than I am. I wanna say it took my about an hour for each baffle in my first form 1 can, but I don't have a DRO, either. |
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From the ECCO Facebook page. This is not mine. Nick threaded a Ruger 57! Attached File |
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If you do not mind PMing me with when you sent yours in I would appreciate it, it will give me an idea of where mine is in the que. Still being patient but with people on edge lately, I would like to get it back haha. |
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Originally Posted By USAFtacFANAC: If you do not mind PMing me with when you sent yours in I would appreciate it, it will give me an idea of where mine is in the que. Still being patient but with people on edge lately, I would like to get it back haha. I wish I hadn't pussy footed around and got in que 2 months ago (damn tri lug adapter)...Now being on the wait list, I have no clue as to a time frame. Hopefully I don't get forgotten. 
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Originally Posted By chargerdude70: I wish I hadn't pussy footed around and got in que 2 months ago (damn tri lug adapter)...Now being on the wait list, I have no clue as to a time frame. Hopefully I don't get forgotten. I hear you brother. I do not for one second think that nick is going to forget anyone. He had some business projects which he is transparent about. I would say 'update people with a time frame' but I am not going to as people would take that as the word of God. Then he would have people bitching about his business because 'he was not on time!!!'. Takes a lot of balls to stop taking orders to do the right thing. COUGH unlike some companies around here lately. (disclaimer, I do buy their stuff still haha) |
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Originally Posted By USAFtacFANAC: I hear you brother. I do not for one second think that nick is going to forget anyone. He had some business projects which he is transparent about. I would say 'update people with a time frame' but I am not going to as people would take that as the word of God. Then he would have people bitching about his business because 'he was not on time!!!'. Takes a lot of balls to stop taking orders to do the right thing. COUGH unlike some companies around here lately. (disclaimer, I do buy their stuff still haha) What he's re-coring for me is a dedicated MP5 can. I'm just hoping it gets done before a 2 day class I'm taking at end of September. Be nice to break it in properly with about 1300 rds.  |
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Originally Posted By chargerdude70: What he's re-coring for me is a dedicated MP5 can. I'm just hoping it gets done before a 2 day class I'm taking at end of September. Be nice to break it in properly with about 1300 rds. That sounds awesome. I sent mine in I think on may 8th. He gave me a rough estimate of an 8 week wait. So i know I still have some time to kill. I have build a rifle specifically for this can in the time of waiting haha. I know the wait will be worth it. Stamp submitted on 4/15. If I get it back by July 9th, that still beats waiting a whole year everyday and twice on Sunday. I think If I do a 9mm this summer, I will judge the route I take based upon his work load. If he is slammed, I may just try the quiet bore myself. If he is on a good track, I will give him more money! |
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Originally Posted By chargerdude70: What he's re-coring for me is a dedicated MP5 can. I'm just hoping it gets done before a 2 day class I'm taking at end of September. Be nice to break it in properly with about 1300 rds. Anything that's here now will be done well before the end of Sept. I'm currently hanging right around the 2 month mark on recores, been working on stuff from mid-April this week. We did get through enough of the backlog to start taking some stuff in again, but I'm still trying to moderate it to the point that I can spend weekends getting the new shop finished up. We're pretty close, will be able to move machines up as soon as I trench and lay the secondary well circuit, the gas line line, hook up the heater, few other things. I've got full power now and plumbed in all the air lines a couple weekends ago, and hung the 250K BTU heater last weekend, but I don't want to move machines until the heat & water plumbing are done, lest I find myself in trouble come cooler months. It's a large building, and there are just so many things to do to go from dried in structure to functional shop!  And then at some point I have to get this thing hooked up and figure out how to run it!  It's a 1991 Mazak 15M, a 3 axis live tool lathe I scored for a pretty good price that came with a chip conveyor and bar feeder Unloading it was fun! It's a 9,400 pound machine, and even with 1,300 lbs of steel blocks on the back of my V80, it was still tippy, so I strapped it down to the front of my duece for insurance. Delivery driver thought I was nuts, was sure he was either gonna see bad stuff happen or end up stuck here waiting on other machines to unload. Nope! Out in these parts, we find ways to get it done with what we have, and he was unloaded of the machine, conveyor and bar feeder in less than an hour. The old CAT wasn't super happy about the over max load, but she grunted through.  |
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@Sixtysixdeuce Must be a good feeling having enough business to support a project like that, congrats.  As far as my project goes, I guess I’m one if the unlucky ones. It took too long to get my trilug adapter. I guess I will hear from you some time in the fall. Edit: I am officially eating crow, Nick called to straighten me out. I was on the golden ticket list. It was just a miscommunication on my part. Thank you Nick. |
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Originally Posted By chargerdude70: @Sixtysixdeuce Must be a good feeling having enough business to support a project like that, congrats. We shall see. This building was funded by closing out a trust, selling some stocks, selling vehicles (my '69 charger was one of them) and taking out a significant HELOC. I own the building personally, it's on my real property. It will be leased back to the company. |
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Nick, the shop that helped me drill the end cap used a muzak (mazak? spelling?) machine just like that. If the hole is not concentric, well shit haha. That is what I am sweating the most about. I think we used a .26 bit. Super bad ass though man, I like watching people truly living the American dream. |
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Originally Posted By chargerdude70: What he's re-coring for me is a dedicated MP5 can. I'm just hoping it gets done before a 2 day class I'm taking at end of September. Be nice to break it in properly with about 1300 rds. Charger, You'll have to show me your can at the MP5 class. I'll bring my beautiful .22 recore job that Ecco Machine did... |
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Originally Posted By Sixtysixdeuce: Big enough to pass .224" cal bullets, but leaves some room for it to be cleaned up and made concentric without going oversize. Gotcha. I didn’t read close to enough to figure out that was his “rough draft” before sending it to you. I thought that’s what he’d done for a final step using a local machinist. |
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Originally Posted By BigWaylon: Gotcha. I didn’t read close to enough to figure out that was his “rough draft” before sending it to you. I thought that’s what he’d done for a final step using a local machinist. haha I might be a dummy sometimes, but I wanted to get this one right. They pulled a bigger bit out first but I was worried so we tried to do the smallest hole they could. I already have the itch to do a second can and I dont even have the first one back! |
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Originally Posted By USAFtacFANAC: ............. I already have the itch to do a second can and I dont even have the first one back! That’s not hard when you can get an efile F1 in a month or less and a recore in about the same time. Beats waiting the F4 wait times. My next can will be for the AR 22 pistol I posted in here previously it’s a keeper so I think I’m going to SBR it as well. |
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Originally Posted By chargerdude70: That’s not hard when you can get an efile F1 in a month or less and a recore in about the same time. Beats waiting the F4 wait times. My next can will be for the AR 22 pistol I posted in here previously it’s a keeper so I think I’m going to SBR it as well. I am thinking of doing a 9mm. There is a guy who sells 17-4 or Ti K baffles for the quiet bore kit. I am thinking of doing a .45 can. Besides my .22's I only have 5.56 and 9mm after getting rid of Ak's and 45's. Decided to REALLY consolidate lately. I will do a .45 after another user suggested there is not much difference in db. Besides I might want a FNX tac back in my life. |
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I sent nick the first silencer I made. Rimfire and about 7 years old. I had $30 in it for the engraving I paid for. It was a super ghetto monocore I made on a drill press. It worked OK on rifles but it was horrible on pistols. He spruced it up for around $350. It was $$ because my engraved tube was a bare tube with no threads or endcaps, so he had to thread it and make endcaps. So in the end it cost similar to what a mid-range commercial silencer would cost. I'm pretty happy with it and it works 100x better on pistols than my work did. Already thinking about how to have him rebuild my next one. I have a nearly decade old form 1 I never built for a 12inch 45 caliber that I intended to build To pin onto a short rifle barrel to avoid sbr hassles. Torn between a lever action, a big bore ar, or an mpx. What's sad is this made me realize how many unfinished form 1 I have! Attached File |
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Hey ECCO brethren, Reaching out to the masses here to see if anyone has a Griffin Tri-lug mount with spring cage. In need of a precise measurement from the face where mount registers on the cage down to where the spring perches at the bottom. Edit: Never mind, got the answer. |
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Originally Posted By waywaup: https://i.imgur.com/t2m0aPX.jpg @waywaup Wait, what?! I sent Nick a 22lr can for a recore and my Kestrel AK last year for a quote on a recore. I decided I just couldn't see the point in spending money on the recore as I didn't even have a gun that could take the kestrel anymore (still don't). Did you get the can back yet? How much does it weight? What's it sound like? Details, please! |
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Originally Posted By superdrag67: @waywaup Wait, what?! I sent Nick a 22lr can for a recore and my Kestrel AK last year for a quote on a recore. I decided I just couldn't see the point in spending money on the recore as I didn't even have a gun that could take the kestrel anymore (still don't). Did you get the can back yet? How much does it weight? What's it sound like? Details, please! It sounds good, hearing safe with 16" 5.56, boarding line on 10.5 SBR. Remember I asked him to keep the same bore size at .400"(10mm). Probably quieter if it's the 30cal bore. The weight, with the 1/2-28 direct thread Omni mount, it was 1lb 7oz in stock configuration. 1lb 2.6oz after recore, consider it has 7 baffles and a blast diffuser compare to 5 baffles and no diffuser from factory.     
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| Anyone had Nick rework a Trek? How generous can you go on bore size on a recore? 11/32? |
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I thought I was covered for 22 cans, but the NFAids is a bitch when it mutates - themagikbullet
I thought I was covered for 22 cans, but the NFAids is a bitch when it mutates - themagikbullet
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Originally Posted By waywaup: https://i.imgur.com/Ia1ci7S.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gbJZGCv.jpg That's HOT! https://i.imgur.com/CFcYXlx.jpg Ooohhhh that’s nice!
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I've stayed relatively employed most of my adult life. That should count as miracle #1 - Wandering_Moses
I've stayed relatively employed most of my adult life. That should count as miracle #1 - Wandering_Moses
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Originally Posted By waywaup: https://i.imgur.com/Ia1ci7S.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gbJZGCv.jpg That's HOT! https://i.imgur.com/CFcYXlx.jpg ThTs actually really cool |
I wouldn't stand in front of a piss-filled supersoaker. Does that make it a good pistol? - Caboose314
I thought I was covered for 22 cans, but the NFAids is a bitch when it mutates - themagikbullet
I thought I was covered for 22 cans, but the NFAids is a bitch when it mutates - themagikbullet
Nick is doing a coaxial for me. He sent me the tube/end cap/mount. I test fitted and poked a hole in the end and had the NFA engraving done. Sent it back about week ago. Waiting my turn but excited to hear the results. Going to do a comparison between it and my Hybrid.  |
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