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Posted: 1/4/2008 1:49:26 PM EDT
| How hard would it be to add weight to a carbine buffer? Just take out the roll pin and add some lead weights...would it work??? |
Just cut down some steel bar. It's not that hard. Making a super heavy one out of of tungsten would be a bitch. Go get some tire weights and melt them into the buffer. |
www.buffertech.com/stores/1/AR-15_Recoil_Buffer_P75C2.cfm |
If you had a lathe you could turn down some bronze to replace the steel weights. Regular bronze being ~ 10% heavier than steel. Not sure how lead would hold up to being bounced around inside the buffer. |
actually turning down tungsten is no different than any other steel.I took some bar stock tungsten and turned down enough to do 4 buffers.the stuff at that time ran about $35 a lb. but we had it at work and I asked da boss for a stick of it, turned it at lunch. I honestly could not tell the difference but I only made H2 buffers.I never got around to making H3 ones. but all you do is pop them out measure them and put it back together.the places that sell tungsten weights are seriously rippin people off.these things are not worth all that.I would not do lead unless it is shot or BB's or something like that. yeah I was bored too and that is why I made them. |
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