| From: | GRANITE granite@**.net |
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| Subject: | Gun manufacturing, the LoTech approach [was: Thunderbolts: H |
| Date: | Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:22:30 -0700 |
> : your players had a construction guru and said they were just going
> :to build their own thunderbolts.
I would repy..OK..how much mula are you going to spend to get this al
down right..and how much time do you have..because it is going to
take lots of both..including half a dozen or so thunderbolts to take
all apart and study..
> What skills would you say are
Hmm..Metalurgy rating 4 or higher..B/R firearms rating 5 or
above..Metalworking rating 7 or above..Firearms design and
manufacturing techniques rating 4 or higher..and probably
computers/design programs rating 2/4..That should get you the skills
necessary to be able to make a really good copy then there is the
full metalworking shop..and the gunsmithing shop..and the whatever
other shop that will be necessary to get the job done..
ANd then I would make the player actually study up on the subject..so
they can at least discribe all the stuff his character going to need
to do..
> :neccessary and how difficult would you make the rolls?
Very..At least for the first four or five built..
> what would it
> require to make cheap simple firearms, if say a barrens gang decided
> one weekend that they wanted to tackle this sort of Do-It-Yourself
> project?
Not much..a simple general shop or less..
> For example, would it be possible to, oh, say make a single-shot
> shotguns out of some lengths of the correct gauge steel pipe, some
> shells, and some sort of spring trigger?
Yup..very easily done..as well as pistol type zip guns..all are
relatively easy to manufacture..but there is always the chance of
them exploding on you..
>I know range would suck, and
> accuracy would be right out,
I don't know about the range..that is a larger portion controlled by
the round used..if I am not mistaken..
Accuracy..would deffinitey be on the low end of things..
> Also would the old decker's trick of using a control slave operation
> to change what a computer-aided-manufacturing production line
> produces work for making some simple gun parts?
That would depend greatly on what the faciilty usually makes..And how
closely things are monitored.. I'm thinking that quality control is
still going to be around in the future..
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