I just finished this one today for Ron. He had DEC send me the denix and ANH Hero kit to build out for him with a blaster core 4.0.
This was the first time getting a denix prepped by Dave at DEC, and I was pleased to see that he pre-drill and tapped the mount screws. This is usually a medium pain in the butt to line up correctly and I didn't have to worry about it at all.
I just had to lathe the nut down super thin to make space for the electronics and battery pack.
He also milled in the mystery disk, so that saved me a little hassle as well.
Now he didn't MILL out the denix logo, but it was filed flat. So a big thanks to DEC for saving me some time.
I still did have to mill the trigger and shape it, as well as mill the extractor detail into the bolt.
The DEC wooden grips are great for milling channels and clearances for the recharge port, and speaker... as well as a big well for resonance for the sound.
Another change form recent cast DEC kits was that the scope body was machined from aluminum rather than cast pewter alloy. Also the flash hider was aluminum, as well as the bull barrel. This changed up the ease of chemical bluing as the scope being all aluminum turned blue but was much harder than the pewter to get a consistent finish. The bull barrel took the finish very nicely but the scope body was very hard to get done. It took me a LONG time to do it for some reason.
Here's some video of it. I will try to get pics before shipping it off.
This was the first time getting a denix prepped by Dave at DEC, and I was pleased to see that he pre-drill and tapped the mount screws. This is usually a medium pain in the butt to line up correctly and I didn't have to worry about it at all.
I just had to lathe the nut down super thin to make space for the electronics and battery pack.
He also milled in the mystery disk, so that saved me a little hassle as well.
Now he didn't MILL out the denix logo, but it was filed flat. So a big thanks to DEC for saving me some time.
I still did have to mill the trigger and shape it, as well as mill the extractor detail into the bolt.
The DEC wooden grips are great for milling channels and clearances for the recharge port, and speaker... as well as a big well for resonance for the sound.
Another change form recent cast DEC kits was that the scope body was machined from aluminum rather than cast pewter alloy. Also the flash hider was aluminum, as well as the bull barrel. This changed up the ease of chemical bluing as the scope being all aluminum turned blue but was much harder than the pewter to get a consistent finish. The bull barrel took the finish very nicely but the scope body was very hard to get done. It took me a LONG time to do it for some reason.
Here's some video of it. I will try to get pics before shipping it off.
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