55 Gallon Barrel Suppressor Test

[slas]

Um, keep the dang chrony out of the way until you get the barrel deal figured out.

Thanks for the good laughs.

In retrospect that would have been best.....

 

[slas]

No...bolt the end (lid?) of the 55 gallon barrel that keeps blowing off to the rest of the 55 gallon barrel.

I would have thought you'd use the bottom of the barrel for the cut-out hole, and put the rifle into the other (open) end. And either discard the lid or use it for a target...

There is no "open" end. One barrel got the top cut out and a slot cut on the bottom, the other barrel got the bottom third cut off and a slot cut in it. The bottom third part of the 2nd barrel slides over the full barrel with the top cut out.

 

[slas]

WTAF did I just read?

About "one of those days".....

 

[Pokinfun]

why didn't you use one of those blue barrels with a locking ring?

 

[beastep]

Get you some of those toolbox latches from hardware store and put on the lid.

 

[CBarCRanch]

why didn't you use one of those blue barrels with a locking ring?

Cheap

 

[MacFromOK]

There is no "open" end. One barrel got the top cut out and a slot cut on the bottom, the other barrel got the bottom third cut off and a slot cut in it. The bottom third part of the 2nd barrel slides over the full barrel with the top cut out.

Ak, ok. I wasn't aware you spliced two 55 gallon barrels together (still not sure why?). One barrel with the end cut out should have worked fine.

At this point, I'd either bolt them together or attach some latches as beastep suggested.

Luck.

 

[Ignored Member]

One of these will take up a lot less space on the bench and work 1,000 times better.

 

[Pokinfun]

Cheap

I kind of like being called cheap.

 

[CBarCRanch]

I kind of like being called cheap.

I was saying the barrel without the clamping lids are cheap. Not calling you cheap.