I've made magazines for myself. I showed a few around and people started asking for me to make more. Pretty soon I was running a stamping/welding shop making hundreds of magazines.
I can give a little input on process but I may have a day or so between replies.
You can make almost any magazine with the following tools:
Metal cutting saw or shear
Caliber
Dremel tool
Belt sander
Band file
Spot welder/Mig welder (or other welding means)
Assorted files punches and layout tools.
You can use soft steel however they are more fragile than harder steels like 1040 and 1050.
I used to make fabricated magazines which are assembled from folded pieces using a series of 90 degree angles.
This is a way to do a larger curved magazine. Since you cannot fold a curved 90 degree angle easily, we made this out of strips. Inside other layers are added to hold the rounds in the center and generate the correct sizes.
The magazine shown is an 8 round for a Saiga 12 shotgun. It did function but was only used to gather data for a stamped design.
This is what the stamped one looks like
I can give a little input on process but I may have a day or so between replies.
You can make almost any magazine with the following tools:
Metal cutting saw or shear
Caliber
Dremel tool
Belt sander
Band file
Spot welder/Mig welder (or other welding means)
Assorted files punches and layout tools.
You can use soft steel however they are more fragile than harder steels like 1040 and 1050.
I used to make fabricated magazines which are assembled from folded pieces using a series of 90 degree angles.
This is a way to do a larger curved magazine. Since you cannot fold a curved 90 degree angle easily, we made this out of strips. Inside other layers are added to hold the rounds in the center and generate the correct sizes.
The magazine shown is an 8 round for a Saiga 12 shotgun. It did function but was only used to gather data for a stamped design.
This is what the stamped one looks like
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