Ok, the next step in my no-glock-parts-faux-glock is to mill the slide for my red dot. I have a machinist friend that has a milling machine in his garage, a blank lone wolf slide, and a Tasco Optima mrd, (which I have been told is the same footprint as the JP).
What neither my friend or I have is any experience milling slides for mini red dots. He asked me about things he would need like cut depth, what type and size of cutter, thread pitch.....ok, I will come out and say it,
I am not a machinist, and he is a retired mechanic that owns a mill and dabbles.
So, do I spend the $$ to pay a professional machine shop like adco (or a more glock specific place like lone wolf) to do this or do I get details from you and try to have my friend do it?
To be clear, I am not disparaging my friends ability, he has made some really cool stuff, and I don't think that this is a terribly difficult job, but neither of us knows for sure what to do.