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Animated Glock
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:06 am
by seamusTX
This is an absolutely fascinating animated view of how a pistol works:
http://www.sniperworld.com/glock/
- Jim
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:25 am
by jbirds1210
Jim-
Thanks for posting the link. I have spent more than a few minutes looking at that over the last year or so

It really is a awesome tool to use for learning or teaching.
From what I understand.......the gentleman that created that tried to sell it to Glock and they were not interested

It looks much better than anything on their site.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 10:33 am
by sparx
And it's not only a great tool for demonstrating how a Glock operates, but it's also fantastic in helping to explain to another how a semiautomatic pistol works in general as well, especially since you can remove or view cut-aways of many of the components.
I spent more than a few minutes attempting to figure out how to save his Shockwave animation to my hard drive for reference, but gave up... I just hope his site doesn't go away!
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 11:22 am
by stevie_d_64
So thaaats what happens!
You know...It all happens so fast I only have time to...
Squeeze off a few additional rounds to add to the excitement!
I know...I'm a goob...So what else is new...
I still think the animation is compelling...They did a really nice job on this!
We have a 3-D modeling program that we use to create the models for the machined parts we put into our systems here at N.O.V., it is really nice to have this for that purpose...
Might be neat to see if we can create another model of say...A 1911!!!
Woo Hoo! cool stuff!!!
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:06 pm
by Wildscar
stevie_d_64 wrote:Might be neat to see if we can create another model of say...A 1911!!!
Scroll down about half way.
http://www.m1911.org/full_1911desc.htm
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:27 pm
by KBCraig
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:49 pm
by stevie_d_64
Man, you guys take all the fun out if it!!!
OK, fine...Find an animation of a...ummmm...a...Phased Plasma rifle in the 40 watt range??? Yeah, that'll keep you busy!
I think Arnold has one of those!

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:48 pm
by BobCat
You can download a screensaver of the 1911 that Kevin posted above, at the STI web site
http://www.stiguns.com
I have it on my computer at work, and have seen engineers and especially designers just stop talking and drift off when they see it function.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:59 pm
by hi-power
BobCat,
I donwloaded the screen saver. Thanks.
But I get an error saying "Unable to register Shockwave Flash ActiveX control. Please close all other applications and try again."
Have you gotten that error?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:55 pm
by Velocity
That one was nice, but here's another one - I feel this one is a bit more "instructional" rather than "reference" like the one at sniperworld.
http://www.genitron.com/glock23/intglock.html
..and for those not favorable of the Glock, they have a Beretta 92FS as well :
http://www.genitron.com/IntPistol.html
...and even a S&W 66 revolver :
http://www.genitron.com/IntRevolver.html
Interesting site overall!
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:06 am
by BobCat
hi-power,
No, and I have to admit I don't know what it means. I think Shockwave and ActiveX are software - players for animations or something like that - but that's the limit of my knowledge.
Here's hoping you get it working right. It is a hoot - people who see the 1911 functioning seem hypnotized by it.
Regards,
Andrew
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:40 pm
by Mithras61
hi-power wrote:BobCat,
I donwloaded the screen saver. Thanks.
But I get an error saying "Unable to register Shockwave Flash ActiveX control. Please close all other applications and try again."
Have you gotten that error?
Shockwave Flash is an Adobe software product that adds into several web browsers.
It sounds like the screen savefr is using the Shockwave Flash ActiveX control.
If you have Shockwave installed, you may need to adjust your security settings for the stiguns.com site in Internet Explorer.
Otherwise, you will probably want to install
Shockwave Flash. (Click the name & then click Download Now in the Adobe site)
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:54 pm
by Zero_G
sparx wrote:
I spent more than a few minutes attempting to figure out how to save his Shockwave animation to my hard drive for reference, but gave up... I just hope his site doesn't go away!
Try
http://www.sniperworld.com/glock/loader_g17_ver_1_4.swf, then "file...save page as" in Firefox. The 'save as' doesn't seem to work in IE7 (yet another reason to use Firefox!)
Keith
(computer geek)
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 5:58 pm
by isoplus
I thought this was entertaining as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ToCK4C7ig
Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 7:45 pm
by O6nop
I don't know if anyone has seen this one yet, but I thought I'd add a AR15 to the mix.
http://www.barnesengineering.com/ar15animation/