Homemade AR lower forged from aluminum cans

[meatman]

This is my buddy's brother-in-law who is an ER doctor in Virginia. It's pretty impressive that he has time to tinker around like this in his spare time.

[izzy]

That's pretty damn cool. Chances I ever get close to doing something like that are zero.

[colorider]

That guy has some serious equipment. And skills. And TIME.

[thedave1164]

Sweet, most expensive cast lower ever

[Circuits]

Casting, not a forging, and using the wrong alloy for the job (beverage cans are 3004 or 3104), so it's good he made it beefier than a standard lower profile. Looks like he didn't end up with any obvious voids, so it should do just fine.

Very neat to watch, though!

[Zundfolge]

"I'll see your 80% lower and raise you ..."

[thvigil11]

Neat to see. My issue is the extra steps in casting in the voids for the mag well and trigger cut, along the specific shape seem like a partial waste of time. If one has access to machinery, it seems to me to be a better use of time to simply cast a large block of AL and take the extra machine time to mill out the outer shape and inner cuts. I mean, its cool for someone to show off their sand molding abilities, but if you have access to the machinery that he has, why not just cast a block and machine the whole enchilada.

[beast556]

That's pretty bad ass. He has some serious skills.

[Squeeze]

I'm sure this video has made Liberal's heads explode. Therefore I give this video a huge

[68Charger]

Neat to see. My issue is the extra steps in casting in the voids for the mag well and trigger cut, along the specific shape seem like a partial waste of time. If one has access to machinery, it seems to me to be a better use of time to simply cast a large block of AL and take the extra machine time to mill out the outer shape and inner cuts. I mean, its cool for someone to show off their sand molding abilities, but if you have access to the machinery that he has, why not just cast a block and machine the whole enchilada.

I'm guessing that besides showing off casting skills, it looked like he was close to his crucible capacity... multiple pours aren't feasible unless you have more than one furnace and crucible to pour in a row.

and a big block of aluminum would need more than the capacity he has.