Chapter 84: Premade Parts
The next morning, Dominic went straight to work milling the parts for his rifles that weren’t standardized and provided on the cart.
He was immensely grateful that they didn’t need to make their own barrels, as that alone would take multiple days for twenty rifles, not to mention all the different metals needed for the trigger actions they were provided.
Unless they greatly increased the size of his forge and gave him the specialized tools needed for barrel making, that was.
This morning, Dominic noticed that the loading levers, a hinged action that covered the trigger, had been stacked on his cart.
He had made them yesterday, but someone must have tasked another forge worker to make an entire box full of them for him last night.
That was one less part to deal with, other than the single hole he needed to drill in them for mounting.
If they kept this up, his job would be more like a precision fitment worker than a Gunsmith. But yesterday it took him a little over seventeen hours to assemble twenty, and three hours into the day, using magitech tools, he had the receivers for twenty more ready and a jig built to hold them in place while precision guiding each hole.
Another four hours to grind threads for bolts, shape and fit all the parts that were on his cart, and he was ready to start assembly.
The other smiths had gained many new parts for their builds, but Dominic did notice that many of the Gunsmiths disdained them and preferred to use only parts that they hand made themselves.
The old Armourer came over to see how Dominic was doing, and he flagged him down to ask a question.
"Where are all these parts coming from? The Royal Forges aren’t that large." Dominic asked quietly.