Lots of home made gun threads around, let’s take a step back. Home made ammo.
Bullets are easy - lathe
Cases are not to hard - press
Power is difficult to get right but not hard to make - chemistry kit.
Primers are a problem, you either need to really know what you are doing with explosives or you get stuck with shitty match head or black powder primers.
With the rise of printed guns we need a easy to manufactured primer system. Electronic primers are interesting, the failed commercially but could be easier to make for countries that have no access to ammunition. Who has a bright idea for how to make this happen.
The only electronic primers I’ve found so far only replace the firing pin with a electric pulse, this is fairly point less as they still use traditional primer compounds, the ignition is just different. Is there anyway to use the electric pulse to be the actual primer.
Sure, but to get it hot enough fast enough would be very power intensive and wasteful.
S heating element like a resistor wouldn't work fast enough.
There would be a delay of a half second or longer.
You would need to rely on a full on arc flash sort of jolt between contacts within the bullet that is hot enough to set everything off, or something that would vaporize/melt the conductor instantly.
That takes some serious juice for a single shot.
Would be better off making a plasma-type weapon that superheats gas/ambient air. Problem there would be figuring out how to encapsulate the blast in a magnetic field and project it forward
frick no lmao
we figured that shit out in the 90's, are you serious man?
it takes a room filled with capacitors to power each shot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER
>it takes a room filled with capacitors
I think you mean "took". The result of MARAUDER was so spectacular that they instantly canceled and classified it to continue work out of the public eye.
no anon. the concept, even if redone, would likely STILL take that big a set of power sources.
and no, they shitcanned it because it supposedly took way too much fricking power per shot.
they turned that room towards trying to make a fusion reactor work. that is how much power is going through it.
10 million joules of energy (10 million amps 120,000 volts.
It is the largest set of capacitors the airforce publicly has.
All of that for one fricking weapon?
Nah man. Its just another wunderwaffle rightly tossed into storage for the day one of the great tech bottlenecks gets cracked.
>electronic ignition takes a lot of power, so it might not be good for a DIY gun.
>uhhhh, clearly the simplest solution is to create a literal plasma cannon that not even the greatest minds of our generation with the largest military budget have been able to make practical (yet)
Did a tau write this or just a moron?
>heating element like a resistor wouldn't work fast enough.
128AWG nichrome wire attached to a 9V battery vaporizes instantly
Well the nice thing about electric ignition is that the primer can be made from a much wider range of materials. It may be difficult to produce fulminated mercury at home, but stuff like gun cotton not so much
>Bullets are easy - lathe
Even easier: airgun pellets
you can cast your own lead bullets with a mould, no need to buy factory bullets that maybe are to soft for higher velocity
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ammosmith+swage
>easy
>not to hard
>not hard
How much of this have you actually done?
Done similar things to bullets and cases, really not hard. Is more expensive than bought, especially the turned bullets but if you have a pattern for the lathe or the dies for the case its pretty easy.
Not so sure about the gun powder, raw material is easy to get and the process in theory is not difficult. But I’m pretty sure it’s difficult to get consistent grain size and burn rate.
>But I’m pretty sure it’s difficult to get consistent grain size and burn rate.
That's not hard, it's just using a sieve. There are plenty of old books which describe exactly how that was done back in the day.
This one explains how to make explosive bullets as well as early (corrosive) primers as well. It's out of copyright so you can read it free on Google Books.
>a pattern for the lathe
>pattern
you think the average DIYer has a fricking Tracer attachment? Or do you have no idea how to use a lathe at all?
None, considering he talks about making bullets on a lathe rather than casting them like everyone else.
Casting cannot be used for all ammunition types, but I agree that it could used the in most homemade guns.