I had a crazy idea, Looking for some input...

mundy928 · 11-21-2015, 11:10 AM

I've done some reading and think I have some information to help solve a few of the unanswered questions thus far. Feel free to add to what I have to say or tear it apart.
http://www.forgottenweapons.com/wp-c...unFacts%29.pdf
This is a pretty good article written by a reporter that toured the Mauser production floor when they started making Lugers again in the sixties. Some of the highlights; Mauser sold their Lugers to Interarms for around $80 completed which works out to between $520 and $550 in today's consumer adjusted price index. Interarms sold them retail for between 2 and 2 1/2 times that number. (we all know after the fact that Mauser lost money on the deal). they were also scaled to quite impressive production numbers.
Mauser updated the production machining to 1960s level technology and eliminated the vast majority of hand fitting. The majority of hand fitting on the original guns came from the inability to manufacture parts to the tolerances required using turn of the 20th century machining.
The frame seems to be the biggest machining problem. It requires an obscene amount of cuts.

The Mitchell era Lugers were reverse engineered. They measured Lugers and built their own off what they came up with (with significant changes). They also did not have access to any of the original production metallurgy. It seems that the largest complaints were metallurgy and build quality issues.
I've tracked down a translated materials table, we have better metals today, the key is getting the right type of metal (malleability vs hardness and whatnot) in the right spots.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/153629976...structions-pdf

I'm also attaching the original DWM production blueprints. There are better quality ones floating around, but these work as an example. Like Ollie said, building it in solidworks would be a major pain. If you were a company paying someone to do it, I think that is where you would go broke in today's economy.

11-21-2015, 11:10 AM	#1
mundy928 User Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I've done some reading and think I have some information to help solve a few of the unanswered questions thus far. Feel free to add to what I have to say or tear it apart. http://www.forgottenweapons.com/wp-c...unFacts%29.pdf This is a pretty good article written by a reporter that toured the Mauser production floor when they started making Lugers again in the sixties. Some of the highlights; Mauser sold their Lugers to Interarms for around $80 completed which works out to between $520 and $550 in today's consumer adjusted price index. Interarms sold them retail for between 2 and 2 1/2 times that number. (we all know after the fact that Mauser lost money on the deal). they were also scaled to quite impressive production numbers. Mauser updated the production machining to 1960s level technology and eliminated the vast majority of hand fitting. The majority of hand fitting on the original guns came from the inability to manufacture parts to the tolerances required using turn of the 20th century machining. The frame seems to be the biggest machining problem. It requires an obscene amount of cuts. The Mitchell era Lugers were reverse engineered. They measured Lugers and built their own off what they came up with (with significant changes). They also did not have access to any of the original production metallurgy. It seems that the largest complaints were metallurgy and build quality issues. I've tracked down a translated materials table, we have better metals today, the key is getting the right type of metal (malleability vs hardness and whatnot) in the right spots. https://www.scribd.com/doc/153629976...structions-pdf I'm also attaching the original DWM production blueprints. There are better quality ones floating around, but these work as an example. Like Ollie said, building it in solidworks would be a major pain. If you were a company paying someone to do it, I think that is where you would go broke in today's economy.