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[Horus Lupercal]

8bitCosmonaut can you help me plz?
How the AR 5.56 30rd magazine hold the ammo? Like how to stop the spring from pushing the ammo outside the mag?

The top of a 5.56 double stack magazine has curved lips that is wide enough to let a single round pass downwards, but not 2 rounds upwards. Because the ammunition isn't polite enough to come out one at a time, they stay jammed upwards against each other, kind of like 2 people trying to walk through the same door, in the same direction, at the same time

Here is one of mine, these are the lips.

At the top of the spring is a half round shaped mould, which forces the rounds to alternatively sit on the magazine

So even though they're side-by-side, one sits slightly higher so the bolt can strip it before feeding

 

[Chara-cter]

The top of a 5.56 double stack magazine has curved lips that is wide enough to let a single round pass downwards, but not 2 rounds upwards. Because the ammunition isn't polite enough to come out one at a time, they stay jammed upwards against each other, kind of like 2 people trying to walk through the same door, in the same direction, at the same time

Oh
Now I understand it
Thanks

 

[Chara-cter]

Ok, I'm building a Centurion with paper. I thought it would be ez cuz it's 1:72 (very small) but I was wrong. The thing is so small and it's a pain to build

 

[Chara-cter]

What I ended up with

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

Heh heh heh

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

8bitCosmonaut can you help me plz?
How the AR 5.56 30rd magazine hold the ammo? Like how to stop the spring from pushing the ammo outside the mag?

A feed lip.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Heh heh heh

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Ha, Arachne Aerospace?

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

Ha, Arachne Aerospace?

What's on your mind?

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

What's on your my mind?

Spiders

 

[Horus Lupercal]

What's on your mind?

I'm probably reading too much. Is there a meaning to the company logo? Or is it literally spiders...

Edit. Yeah, its spiders.

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

8bitCosmonaut can you help me plz?
How the AR 5.56 30rd magazine hold the ammo? Like how to stop the spring from pushing the ammo outside the mag?

See those small "hooks" latching on the 5.56's? Yeah, lips.

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

I'm probably reading too much. Is there a meaning to the company logo? Or is it literally spiders...

Edit. Yeah, its spiders.

Yeah its spiders, all our sat designs behave like them. Their methods of catching space debris to be exact.

 

[Chara-cter]

See those small "hooks" latching on the 5.56's? Yeah, lips.
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Further explanation?

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

Is there a meaning to the company logo?

Its also our team name.

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

Further explanation?

The topmost round will be pushed by the round directly below it sideways against either lips, this will keep the round in place. That one you see is a double stack double feed magazine, its the most reliable but the hardest the get right.

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

My laptop just broke, and my new one fails the license bullshit and now I can't run my Cad software.

Hah, jokes on them, I still have pencil and paper.

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

The top of a 5.56 double stack magazine has curved lips that is wide enough to let a single round pass downwards, but not 2 rounds upwards. Because the ammunition isn't polite enough to come out one at a time, they stay jammed upwards against each other, kind of like 2 people trying to walk through the same door, in the same direction, at the same time

Here is one of mine, these are the lips.

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At the top of the spring is a half round shaped mould, which forces the rounds to alternatively sit on the magazine

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So even though they're side-by-side, one sits slightly higher so the bolt can strip it before feeding

Wtf? That's yours?

 

[Chara-cter]

My laptop just broke, and my new one fails the license bullshit and now I can't run my Cad software.

Hah, jokes on them, I still have pencil and paper.

The good old real life stuff
(Before I have a pc, I always make things with pens and paper)

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Wtf? That's yours?

Yeah, I've got a box of about a dozen of them.

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

Yeah, I've got a box of about a dozen of them.

What's that for? AR 15?

 

[Horus Lupercal]

What's that for? AR 15?

Nah. That's for work. This is the UK, we're a bit...finicky with owning semi-autos.
That's a P mag. You can get them for almost any 5.56mm rifle these days.

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

Nah. That's for work. This is the UK, we're a bit...finicky with owning semi-autos.
That's a P mag. You can get them for almost any 5.56mm rifle these days.

So... What gun is that for?

 

[Chara-cter]

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A fun project: 5.56x45mm round

 

[Chara-cter]

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The pic is not that big :/
It's just 4000x5933

 

[Horus Lupercal]

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A fun project: 5.56x45mm round

That looks almost spot on dude. Round off the end of the round slightly (they're not that pointy, and some have a small hole in the tip for better flight characteristics) and the rim on the case isn't quite so deep, but only slightly.