We were just handling a bunch of 1918 BAR material.
I saw that there were semi-auto trigger frames on the sorting bench.
These were stripped, and we have no idea if all the machine work is done or not as I no longer have anything to compare them to.
I will have to look to see if they are ready to be listed for sale or not.

Richard

 

Did ya see any with the riveted on magazine guides? I already have an original USGI one with riveted guides lined up for the job, but if all else fails I might have to go for one of those.

 

@gearlogo, any update on your project? I'm about to be doing the same thing since I haven't been able to find anybody else willing to do it, would love any tips/experience you had with it!

 

It's sitting there waiting for me to determine it's fate. I'll get to it soon. I'm not looking forward to stripping the park off the OOW reciever and bluing it all to match.

 

That's great!

 

Thats a nice early trigger housing. I saved mine and made a new one. Its semi but not OOW. I used a modified M1 Carbine FCG. You shouldn't have any problem. And no, I don't offer this service. It is a hobby for me.

 

Greaser, just double the price every time a customer calls in for updates. Charge five times the price if they complain about anything, ever. Up front. In writing.

I hates me some whiney beetchez. They fork things up for the normal folks.

 

Greaser is super cool.

As for me, and so it begins...

 

Thanks everyone, I'm going to try it myself. I have the OOW cast semi TG as a model. I'll post the whole rifle when complete.

 

Sorry, it was not my intent to stir the hornets nest. I can say whoever can do this will not hear a peep out of me. I'm generally on the good carma sise of the house.

 

That's the thing. All of these jobs would go in and out in under a week when I was doing them, typically waiting for me to do my weekly parkerizing run.

There is something specific about the customer base for this job that beings out the SPECIAL. Most notably, reenactors tend to be the worst customers. Highest needs for the least amount of money.

None of the other work I do has the same level of nonsense from customers. 1919a4 customers are generally awesome. Have maybe 1 ******* a year there.

I have plenty of work to do without the headache for little to no money on this job. Why take on headaches and special when I can work the endless list of great customers, or spend the time programming and machining production parts.

 

That's the thing. All of these jobs would go in and out in under a week when I was doing them, typically waiting for me to do my weekly parkerizing run.

There is something specific about the customer base for this job that beings out the SPECIAL. Most notably, reenactors tend to be the worst customers. Highest needs for the least amount of money.

None of the other work I do has the same level of nonsense from customers. 1919a4 customers are generally awesome. Have maybe 1 *** a year there.

I have plenty of work to do without the headache for little to no money on this job. Why take on headaches and special when I can work the endless list of great customers, or spend the time programming and machining production parts.

Oh, I think I understand a bit more now. Not to get on reenactors but they are a bit different than gun people. Some reenactors are very cheap but then turn and dump crazy money on something. I always guessed it was just ignorance of pricing.

That said, did you ever just start charging those jobs more and double the estimated time required? Better to say it will take 4 weeks and get it done in 2 than say 1 week and have it done in 1.5 weeks.

Sorry, it was not my intent to stir the hornets nest. I can say whoever can do this will not hear a peep out of me. I'm generally on the good carma sise of the house.

Nothing stirred, no harm in asking. If its not a job for Greaser, maybe there is someone else out there. Maybe OOW will help if you tell them the situations and maybe trade them back in the already completed part.

 

That's called a I don't want to do the job price because this specific job is the number one source of screeching autists and pain in the ass whiney customers. Guys wanting same day turn around, endless question, multiple updates on thr job, pictutes from every angle, hands held, generally clueless ****.

I set the price at $5000 on thr old site just as a fu to these asshats who couldn't read that I no longer was accepting this type of work because of their behavior. Plenty of bad apples lead me to just say the whole basket is rotten. It was an endless stream of, oh you did this for so and so 10 years ago, I want to send my gun in, bla bla bla.... I pulled the Service from the site years ago meaning that i no longer offered it, which started a stream of emails. Put the service back on the website with a price and explanation that i really am not offering the service, emails slowed down but still got nonsense of some really important costume fest coming up and how the requestor realllllly needed this for it.

It's an easy job. Any jabroni with a bridgeport can do it. It takes less than an hour soup to nuts including parkerizing.

 

That's called a I don't want to do the job price because this specific job is the number one source of screeching autists and pain in the ass whiney customers. Guys wanting same day turn around, endless question, multiple updates on thr job, pictutes from every angle, hands held, generally clueless ****.

I set the price at $5000 on thr old site just as a fu to these asshats who couldn't read that I no longer was accepting this type of work because of their behavior. Plenty of bad apples lead me to just say the whole basket is rotten. It was an endless stream of, oh you did this for so and so 10 years ago, I want to send my gun in, bla bla bla.... I pulled the Service from the site years ago meaning that i no longer offered it, which started a stream of emails. Put the service back on the website with a price and explanation that i really am not offering the service, emails slowed down but still got nonsense of some really important costume fest coming up and how the requestor realllllly needed this for it.

It's an easy job. Any jabroni with a bridgeport can do it. It takes less than an hour soup to nuts including parkerizing.

I have to say, that is an odd post and I can see why there is a lot of confusion. An endless stream of people wanting to pay you to do work on their guns does not seem like it would be an issue. Same day turn around does not happen, so thats all about setting expectations as far as I can tell. Multiple updates is usually a request once you have gone beyond the time you told them to expect. Sure there are some bad apples but I find most of the time in the gun world, the demand for good work is higher than the supply that leads the good workers to accept to much work which then has them constantly behind schedule and then answering updates with people wondering where their stuff is? I am doing it right now with some stocks. Seems like a good guy and seems like good work (I have not received anything yet to confirm). However he told me about a month and we are at like 5 months if not more. I know how things go and try not to bug him but even I have called a few times for updates. I am sure there are people that are a pain to deal with but frankly it sounds like more of an issue setting expectations and realistic schedules...

 

I know revenna armory does the trigger conversions but he charges more then the guns worth. Other then him there is no one I know of that can do that job better or just saving your money and buy a transferable BAR like I did lol

 

I did, but did not find anyone currently offering the service.

 

Did you already do a search on this website on this question?