{"id":5916,"date":"2013-07-12T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2013-07-12T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:43:34","slug":"i-have-looked-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5916","title":{"rendered":"I have looked around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and been most disappointed by the offering of commercially available snap caps for the 500 nitro. The mfr says never to dry fire, and of course I never do anyway, but I wasn&#8217;t abut to even entertain pulling the trigger without the caps. <\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t find crap. Most of what I can find, IS crap, and everyone who has what I want is out of stock. <\/p>\n<p>So I thought, I have a couple million dollars worth of machine tools at my disposal, why not make them myself?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the lot.<br \/>\n<a title=\"four.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/four.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image5914\" alt=\"four.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/four.jpg\"height=300 \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I machined the contour in the CNC and then left the shock absorber to the manual lathe. I drilled #7 and tapped 1\/4-20 for nylon screws per <a href=\"http:\/\/elmtreeforge.blogspot.com\/\">Ironhand&#8217;s<\/a> suggestion. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image5915\" alt=\"tapping.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tapping.jpg\"height=300 \/><\/p>\n<p>Hope to finish and test tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and been most disappointed by the offering of commercially available snap caps for the 500 nitro. The mfr says never to dry fire, and of course I never do anyway, but I wasn&#8217;t abut to even entertain pulling the trigger without the caps. And I can&#8217;t find crap. Most of what I can find, IS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}