Building a Gatling gun.

[jarhead jim]

Will do!

Jim

 

[garandman]

I'm with you.....They looked a lot better on paper. I'll probably have to make thicker ones. If you lock the swivel plate down and try to turn the gun, the legs twist a little. I thought 1-1/4 by 1-7/8 oak would be stout enough but I guess I was wrong.

Jim

Finished and stained, the wood does look darn good.

Aren't some gatts mounted on a caison / some sort of rolling platform?

 

[garandman]

Oh, and its needs a cup holder for your beer.

 

[jarhead jim]

LOL!! Oh hell yeah! Yes, most of them were wheel mounted and had a caison with them. My first one was wheel mounted.

Jim

 

[strobro32]

Were can I get the plans for the 12g? You have truly inspired me. Thank you Sir.

 

[FOZ]

Were can I get the plans for the 12g? You have truly inspired me. Thank you Sir.

There in jims head and to be honest I would not go in there if I were you

Foz

 

[jarhead jim]

I'm afraid Foz is right, they're in my head. The only thing I can tell you is if you go there use a 1" bolt for the bolt and a 1.50 by 1.00 DOM tube for the bolt carriers. It makes feeding the round into the chamber really easy. Pretty much if you just follow this post from the start and adjust for the size of a 12 gauge chamber and barrel. The 12 gauge I built was the same gun as this .45 auto only larger barrels, bolts and bolt carriers. The same size cam, cam shroud, crank, etc.

If you start on this I will help you out however I can. But be prepared for some real headaches.

Jim

 

[jarhead jim]

Well, we gots a glitch. Took it to the range this afternoon and had some head space issues. Seems the file where the bolt bottoms up against when it fires is not hard enough. It is leaving a small indentation where it fires. The bolt where the grade 8 bolt is welded to it is giving some too. This is causing a gap when it fires causing some of the barrels to not fire. I guess I'll have to hard surface them both with some "Stoody" hard surfacing compound. I ran 50 rounds through the magazine without any handgups though so I guess the feeding issues are a thing of the past.

Fudge!

Jim

 

[snipertn]

Hows the Gatt comming Jim??

 

[piratesover40]

Were can I get the plans for the 12g? You have truly inspired me. Thank you Sir.

Try here. This will take the pressure off JJ.

http://www.gatlingguns.net/

 

[szumi]

Try here. This will take the pressure off JJ.

http://www.gatlingguns.net/

Great site for building a .22LR gat. I know because I'm building one atm. Jim's posts of building a bigger gun is the high point of many of my days.

Btw, JarheadJim, USMC 1975-79 MOS 6657/0311.:salute

Clutch

 

[jarhead jim]

I'm at a stand still waiting for the parts to get plated. Probably be another 3 or 4 weeks. I'll post a heads up in the general forum when it's all done so you can come here and see it.

Szumi, 0351. '83 - '88

Jim

 

[piratesover40]

I'm at a stand still waiting for the parts to get plated. Probably be another 3 or 4 weeks. I'll post a heads up in the general forum when it's all done so you can come here and see it.

Szumi, 0351. '83 - '88

Jim

Jim:

I saw where a guy built what looks like a 45/70 or .45 long colt mag. The way he did it is to cut away the front portion of the mag down to a certain point. Ten while he was cranking he had some one always feeding ammo to the mag. He basically had a chain gun at that point. You could make one and have two types of mags and still be correct for the design. One other thing I saw watching some of the videos on U-tube. The crank handles could be shortened some what because the guys were having trouble cranking the longer handles causing stoppages. What would happen if you made another crank but about 2'' shorter? Just asking not trying to force my ideas on you by any means.

Chuck

 

[piratesover40]

Great site for building a .22LR gat. I know because I'm building one atm. Jim's posts of building a bigger gun is the high point of many of my days.

Btw, JarheadJim, USMC 1975-79 MOS 6657/0311.:salute

Clutch

Well I thought they might have had plans for bigger cals. Sorry.

 

[jarhead jim]

I've seen the mag you're talking about. It was more or less a clip that the cartridge case rim slid down a C shaped groove. One guy cranked while the other one fed ammo and pulled down on the bullets in the mag. That particular mag was designed for the 2 piece 20 round cartridge boxes. When you took the top off of the cartridge box, about 1/2 to 3/4" of the rear of the rounds would stick out. You just slid the cases down the 2 row magazine and pulled the box off and threw it away. You could really load as fast as the gunner could shoot.

Jim

 

[BeltFedEd]

Bruce Feed

 

[piratesover40]

Bruce Feed

That one even has the T&E on it that's pretty cool. Nice find Beltfed.

 

[mob]

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=162918375

you need to start building this one jim, a 37mm version

 

[jarhead jim]

That's awsome!

Jim

 

[jb573]

Bb

A Sarco Blue light Special