Vaypourus
03-17-2003, 03:02 PM
For those of you who remember my Tribal Fluster...it is no longer! The body was severely stripped out in the feed neck; the feed tube was held into place with what appears to be several different kinds of loctite, and possibly JB Cold weld or some other kind of epoxy. I didn't realize that the threads were damaged until I removed the feed neck (it took about all of the force I could muster with a rubber strap wrench) While most of the stuff easily came out, the damage was still there.
Not wanting to put the work into a flawed gun :(, I aquired a rare unmilled Mephisto Body (thanks Blue!). I then traded the Fluster frame for a 2X Mephisto Trigger frame (thanks CrazyB!) and with the parts from the fluster, I began my work in building a sweet tribal.
The trigger frame that I got was partly damaged; there were several small scratches, one deep gouge, and the anno had worn off/worn to a purple color in some areas. I was unhappy with this, so I used a dremel and a small griding wheel to work out the sratches. The more I inspected the frame, the more unhappy I became. The milling marks were very deep and unfinished in some areas. I worked these out by hand. Unfortunately, the images that I had taken of the before pictures were lost in a file transfer, so I have nothing to compare them to. I will however post the pictures of the newly polished frame (I am working on the polishing right now) within the next few days.
Once this is done, I start on the body. My goal is to get the machine marks worked out so FreeFlow can do a custom annodizing job for me. After that, the new parts start to go in;)
Pictures of everything soon!
Not wanting to put the work into a flawed gun :(, I aquired a rare unmilled Mephisto Body (thanks Blue!). I then traded the Fluster frame for a 2X Mephisto Trigger frame (thanks CrazyB!) and with the parts from the fluster, I began my work in building a sweet tribal.
The trigger frame that I got was partly damaged; there were several small scratches, one deep gouge, and the anno had worn off/worn to a purple color in some areas. I was unhappy with this, so I used a dremel and a small griding wheel to work out the sratches. The more I inspected the frame, the more unhappy I became. The milling marks were very deep and unfinished in some areas. I worked these out by hand. Unfortunately, the images that I had taken of the before pictures were lost in a file transfer, so I have nothing to compare them to. I will however post the pictures of the newly polished frame (I am working on the polishing right now) within the next few days.
Once this is done, I start on the body. My goal is to get the machine marks worked out so FreeFlow can do a custom annodizing job for me. After that, the new parts start to go in;)
Pictures of everything soon!