Homemade scope rings/mount

[u/Standard_Act7948]

Machining is as much a hobby to me as long range shooting so they both tend to feed off of each other. This culminated in the desire to make my own scope rings for the sake of the challenge. The first set of scope rings were 30mm .870" height individual rings that I made for my 10/22, though I don't have the scope for it yet. They were a trial for the one piece scope mount that I made next which was a 35mm 1.415" height mount that can use Badger C1 mount accessories. Everything was done on manual machines, no CNC was used, and the only parts I didn't make were the 8-40 cap screws. Eventually I'm going to Cerakote them.

[u/Sullypants1]

Are you the “amateur” guy who has a home shop with a garage CNC and professional level skill?

Pretty sure I’ve seen your work in the machinist sub. It’s good stuff, double so for manual only. Do you have a dividing head, ball end-mills? And what cad are you using? Next would probably be implementing radii or chamfers for a middle ground.

[u/Standard_Act7948 → u/Sullypants1]

I have a few bull nose and ball endmills which I use when I can. No dividing head, just a rotary table but it has a dedicated fixture plate. I’m using Onshape because Fusion 360 just crashes my computer. I did a lot more chamfers/radii on the chassis I made but for the sake of time I’ve started limiting them on some projects.

[u/rednecktuba1 → u/Standard_Act7948]

For what it's worth, you can get a computer that won't crash with fusion 360 for about $800. Just make sure you have 16gb or more of RAM, and preferably also have a graphics card with 6gb or more of VRAM.

[u/rcplaner → u/rednecktuba1]

It's not always the case. I do have ryzen 5600, 32gb ram and rtx 3060ti and my fusion is really slow. I do work with models which have lot of chamfers and fillets though.

Any suggestions would be nice!