OK, you guys are right, the 10 round .223 is the same size as the 5 round Grendel so 7 rounds is the most it can be modified to hold unless......
I am playing with ideas like removing the ribbing on the mag below where it tucks into the gun, use heat tape I have for bending plastics, wrap it with heated ABS sheet to test it out but I can use Lexan, etc... to get the pattern, make a form then wrap a longer one, section the mag and glue in the wrap to make it 10 rounds, or more if one wished to do so. Then do the rest of the mods listed, figure out what spring to run, etc....
If that works then I could do the wrap in carbon fiber, etc.....or, get a 3d printer and learn how to use it and make the parts that way or, whole magazines.....then I reread this post above, makes far more sense, stretching a factory mag would be for test purposes but not likely viable for helping others get more capacity.
Originally Posted by m796rider
"I can't believe it'd be all that hard to measure and input a 7rd modded mag body and follower into 3D CAD software and send the files off to one of the bazillion 3D printing job shops out there"
I am playing with ideas like removing the ribbing on the mag below where it tucks into the gun, use heat tape I have for bending plastics, wrap it with heated ABS sheet to test it out but I can use Lexan, etc... to get the pattern, make a form then wrap a longer one, section the mag and glue in the wrap to make it 10 rounds, or more if one wished to do so. Then do the rest of the mods listed, figure out what spring to run, etc....
If that works then I could do the wrap in carbon fiber, etc.....or, get a 3d printer and learn how to use it and make the parts that way or, whole magazines.....then I reread this post above, makes far more sense, stretching a factory mag would be for test purposes but not likely viable for helping others get more capacity.
Originally Posted by m796rider
"I can't believe it'd be all that hard to measure and input a 7rd modded mag body and follower into 3D CAD software and send the files off to one of the bazillion 3D printing job shops out there"