Got to actually hold a .45 ACP Luger today!

[Lyn Islaub]

I was on the schedule to host these two gents, but found myself taking a Covid test instead to try and figure out the source of my feeling crappy. Test came out negative (thankfully, but not in time to see John)and I guess I have a winter cold. Sorry to have missed you guys. Next time maybe we can schedule far enough in advance to ask Ron to join us too.
Lyn

[G.T.]

Hi Lyn, I hope you are feeling better and was sad to hear you wouldn't be able to participate. But, we'll get something together soon, always fun and entertaining to visit with you and yours... Hopefully we can all get thru this pandemic unscathed... Best to you my friend, til....lat'r.....GT...

[G.T.]

In the first picture John has posted, it shows my very small, very old, horizontal "job shop" milling machine! It was probably set up much like I have it, with the operation done on one axis, in my case the vertical axis as I use it to cut the magazine catch notch in Numrich drum magazines after welding and grinding the front spine back to shape, inside and out. It is slow and tedious, but reasonably accurate! It all comes down to tooling and stability, as in, if you can hold it, a sharp tool can cut it! But the neat part, is it's a throw back to where parts were made on big machines, and the many necessary secondary operations were done on small machines like I have? Perhaps 1000's of Luger parts manufacture operations were performed just like I'm doing. (although many times more efficient....) Anyway, that's my minds picture of it.... best, til....lat'r.....GT