{"id":370,"date":"2020-08-22T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/?p=370"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:07:14","slug":"project-l115a3-diy-cosine-indicator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Project – L115A3 : DIY cosine indicator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cosine indicators aren’t cheap. Unfortunately for me and my need for a L115A3 clone that could pass any squint test, it’s an accessory I couldn’t pass on. Eager to finish the whole project (at the time)<\/em>, I managed to build my own on the cheaper side.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I managed to quite cheaply snatch the issued mount out of ebay. These pop up from time to time, but are otherwise easy to source through most shooting retailer. You’d be looking for a Badger Ordnance 2nd generation rail mount. Then I got a cheap angle indicator that came attached to a Vector Optics scope mount and disassembled it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I could have used the central screw to attach it to the mount but unfortunately that would have misaligned both. Instead, I went with epoxy and just stacked everything together. This part shouldn’t bear any force on it, and if it does I’d rather have it fall off nicely and just glue it back on than risking it being torn apart.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Once painted and attached to the receiver it looks the part. The only downside was it being an angle indicator rather than cosine like the issued item.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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The DIY indicator next to the real, cosine, indicator.<\/em> Without nerding on the details, it’s invisible to most eyes. Specially with a butchered paintjob that imprinted on the numbers.<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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How I built my own angle indicator to get the complete L115A3 look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30,8],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-projectl115a3","category-snipersystems","tag-projectl115a3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}