Materials Needed:
Deodorant Stick
5/8 in Spade Bit + Drill
Cylinder sanding bit
Scissors
Saw/Knife
½ in. CPVC and coupler
O-ring with OD the same as CPVC
Adhesive
Ruler
Marker
Optional:
Paint
Epoxy Putty
Okay, so here we have our empty stick of deodorant. This one was a Degree kind, and it has a bottom portion that swivels to raise/lower the stick.
The first step is to wash out the leftover gunk and remove the stickers. After doing this, you should have an empty stick. Use scissors to cut out the four tabs at the bottom that attach this little stick to the rest of the case. You can’t see the tabs, but the stick is shown below.
Now, cut the case at 2 ½ in above where the rotating piece begins. Then, cut a strip from the top 1 in tall, and set it aside for later.
Now, at the bottom of the top part, on either side there is a ridge sticking out. Unfortunately, no flash= no picture of ridges, so use your sanding bit and grind those out.
The next part is one of the trickiest. Using your 5/8 in. spade bit, slowly and carefully drill through the bottom of the stick and through the top portion at the same time. Make sure your hole is centered, it should fit pretty perfectly though.
Who’s a happy turret?
Make sure to clean up all those cuts with a utility knife because after this point it will be hard to. Take your CPVC barrels and fit them through the top portion until pretty much flush with the hole. The face is not flat, but kind of slopes down. You will need to sand this until it is pretty flush with the face. What I did was used a marker and colored where the barrel stuck out, and then ground that down. Also, draw a line down the barrel and onto the turret for alignment purposes.
Next, glue your barrels into the top portion, making sure that the back is flush and the barrels are straight. I used hot glue, but superglue or epoxy would probably be much better. Use the other ring of plastic you cut earlier to help with alignment.
Now glue the barrels to the ring to stabilize them more. Also, I filled in the arrows on the bottom with putty so I could sand them off later and possibly paint.
The final part is the trickiest, and I am still trying to get everything to fit and seal right, but it should after some tinkering. Cut a short piece of cpvc, that should be long enough to fit into a coupler and reach the back of the barrel from the bottom of the deodorant stick.
This will also need to be shaped to be flush with the curve. Try to make it a tiny bit to allow space for the o-ring. Now, superglue the o-ring to the CPVC. This will help make a good seal onto the barrels, and keep that o ring from going anywhere. Test fit the coupler assembly into the back to see if it seals correctly. This will probably take a few tries to get it to seal but not drag the turret.
Once the seal is good, you can glue that sucker in. Same here, superglue or epoxy would be best because this is going to be where most of the strain is.
At this point I’ve stopped, because I don’t have a working gun that needs 8 in CPVC barrels. One thing I would like to note is that you can probably add 2 more barrels on either side making this a four shot turret like the AT2K. My goal was to make a rear loading, easily turnable turret using commonly available materials, because AT2K’s are sometimes hard to find. I realize that there are already many homemade turret designs such as bobafan’s and rork’s, but this one is an alternative. As for securely mounting this onto a gun, I would suggest either gluing the bottom of the stick, or better, using a nut a bolt combination through the rotating piece. Anyways, hope you liked my first hopefully original modification, and thanks for reading.
Now I open the floodgates to flaming and suggestions.
