Homemade drop

[thunderpig]

My school released early today so I was looking for something to do. I made a drop forward for my Spyder Compact. Here's what I did.....


I found a piece of aluminum conduit, put it in our vice, and put a rag around it to help reduce wear marks.

http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/b8d3e8d0.jpg


I then started flattening the conduit by tightening the vice. I had to use a cheater bar.

http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/467d9cde.jpg

http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/01904908.jpg

After it was the pipe got flattened to my liking, I moved it over in the vise and started flattening more of it.

After I flattened more of it, I decided to cut the excess off. So I cut off the excess with our chop-saw or whatever you want to call it.
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/e1c4a352.jpg

I then filed off the burrs that the saw had left.
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/3716616f.jpg

I then put it back in the vise and flattened the rest of it.

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[thunderpig]

Then I put my bottomline ASA on it and marked where to drill the holes and where to bend it.

After I had the marks on it, I lined them up with the vise and began to bend the flattened pipe. (again with the cheater bar)
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/46e7a00d.jpg

After I bent both sides of the drop forward, I drilled the holes for the screws. I drilled the screws for the trigger frame at 5/32" and drilled the ones for the ASA at 11/64" (with drillpress)
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/3443fd92.jpg

Then I put it on my marker to make sure everything fit ok, which everything did!


Since all of the hard stuff was over, then all I had to do was make it look pretty!:D

Here's what it looked like before:
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/ae8ac068.jpg
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/3f11324f.jpg

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[thunderpig]

And here is what it looked like after I used a scratch pad and polished it.
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/2111b1eb.jpg
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/a0fc2403.jpg

Here's what it looks like on my spyder with a 20 oz. co2 on it.

http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/dfbfdf08.jpg

All in all, it probably took me about 2 1/2 hours to do.

I know it's kinda crude, but it's a good alternative for a person like me with no money!

[chibissj]

holy crap that thing is long.

[thunderpig]

Yeah, I know it is. I didn't really intend on making it so big, it just kinda ended up that way.:|

[wan2bpntballer]

U HAVE THE SAME GUN IS ME! YEHHHHH!

[forumsk83r]

thats awesome drop dude, longgg drop, i totally want to make one....:love:

[thunderpig]

Thanks man. You know, I could make one for you. For a small fee, of course.:wink2:

[forumsk83r]

how much would that small fee be

[Sprayer Prayer]

that is uber ghetto.

its not bad..but hell yeah its better than spending 50+ dollars on a "real" drop.

Props for the time well spent.

im doing something similar.
Not as long and im keeping the stock dropforward that came with the e99, and just gonna add a lil extension to that.
hopefully itll turn out pretty good.
:)

[thunderpig]

I'm kinda surprised that no one said it was ghetto yet! lol

Yeah, this beats spending money on a drop. This one cost me nothing except about 2 1/2 hrs. of work!


Good luck with your drop! I wanna see pics when you're done!;)

[wan2bpntballer]

um, sprayer just did "that is uber ghetto."
can someone tell me how to quote dangit, please

[Spinach]

Look under your avatar do you see the edit/delete thing the quote thing is right across from it. Click it and it will turn into a duck.

[thunderpig]

Originally posted by wan2bpntballer
um, sprayer just did "that is uber ghetto."


I know. What I meant to say was I couldn't believe no one had said it BEFORE him.:)

[reneirwolf878]

Ewww...:yuck:

[thunderpig]

Originally posted by reneirwolf878
Ewww...:yuck:

ewww? what do ya mean? My drop is cool.:banana::cool:

[cocker kid 2k2]

Make a rail/on off. That'll be pimp.

[hemmingson28]

you need to use solid plate aircraft grade aluminum like this. the fee is a bit greater though. i made this one in about an hour and a half

http://www.*******s.com/hemmingson28/rynoproducts.htm

[forumsk83r]

Originally posted by hemmingson28
you need to use solid plate aircraft grade aluminum like this. the fee is a bit greater though. i made this one in about an hour and a half

http://www.*******s.com/hemmingson28/rynoproducts.htm

how did u bend it...

[thunderpig]

Originally posted by hemmingson28
you need to use solid plate aircraft grade aluminum like this. the fee is a bit greater though. i made this one in about an hour and a half

http://www.*******s.com/hemmingson28/rynoproducts.htm

See, "fees" were what I wanted to avoid with this project.;) Although, I may do something like what you did, in the future. It looks nice!

[hemmingson28]

when i said fees i was refering to what i charged the guy i made this for:eek:

[thunderpig]

Ahhhh I see. Hmmm.. Now I like the bigger fee thing.:D

Where did you get the aluminum? Did you buy it online or....

[hemmingson28]

Originally posted by forumsk83r


how did u bend it...

i didnt bend it i cut it out that shape. when you bend aluminum you weaken it, by cutting it out you dont take away from the integrity of the material.

[forumsk83r]

ooo thats sweet, wut cutting material did u use and where did u get it?

[hemmingson28]

Originally posted by thunderpig
Ahhhh I see. Hmmm.. Now I like the bigger fee thing.:D

Where did you get the aluminum? Did you buy it online or....

i have a machine shop right by my house and they let me scronge through their scrap pile. stop by a metal fab or machine shop and start shooting the sh.. with them and casually ask if they have any scrap aluminum. i told the guys what i was going to make and they were real cool and even gave me some tips

[forumsk83r]

lucky b*tch

[hemmingson28]

Originally posted by forumsk83r
ooo thats sweet, wut cutting material did u use and where did u get it?

i used a jigsaw on that one the ones im working on now im using a bandsaw(alot faster)

[hemmingson28]

Originally posted by forumsk83r
lucky b*tch

got one ex wife and working on the second, my lucks not real good:|

[forumsk83r]

lol how old r u

[hemmingson28]

Originally posted by forumsk83r
lol how old r u

29 today actually

[thunderpig]

Wow. Never knew I was talking to someone nearly thirty.:D

I probably won't be able to go to a machine shop or anything like that because we don't have anything like that around here. I live in outside of a town of about 800-900.

We do have a bunch of scrap metal/aluminum lying around. I'll probably make something much nicer than what I have, out of the stuff we have around here, or out of something I find online.

[forumsk83r]

wow 29....happy birthday!! (tried to get smileys but it wont let me for sum reason)

[hemmingson28]

you guys trying to make me feel old?? lol thanks for the birthday happys. i can still say im in my 20's for another year.

thunder the trick to cutting the aluminum is to keep the blade (of the jig/bandsaw) wet with lubricant and keep your blade speed down . wd 40 will work but burns up fast, motoroil works pretty good, thats if you dont have cutting fluid laying around ofcoarse.

[hemmingson28]

im going to make my own triggers this week ill post some pics when they're done. one for my mako and im going to try to make one for my bros tippy 98. ill post pics and see what people think maybe be able to sell a couple.

thunder thumbs up on your first drop, careful its a bad habit to start, its just a matter of time before i turn my toaster into an expansion chamber...:crazy:

[baseballboy138]

pretty cool... you haven't seen and UBER GHETTO drop until you have seen my friends, it has like a springy ness to it because it is sooo thin! then there is mine! check it out my brother captainmorgan is selling his but mine looks the exact same :banana: OMG!!! all these new emoticons are WAY too cool! lol peace

[thunderpig]

The pic I had of it on my spyder before, with a 20 oz., wasn't the greatest. Here are some updated ones:

http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/dfbfdf08.jpg

http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/25f78a06.jpg

http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/ruskford/77e4c929.jpg

[FighterAceNZ]

what do you mean when you said "cheatbar"?

[thunderpig]

By a "cheater bar" I meant a bar that I put over the vise's bar to gain leverage. That helped me flatten the pipe.

[paintballer42o]

Dude i saw a gun almost(i think) exactly like that and a drop that looked like that...where do you live??

[thunderpig]

I live in southwestern Iowa.

You?