Posted: 10/20/2025 2:54:27 AM EDT
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This is for the Beretta ARX. Tom Geraci, formerly of Nexus Furearms, has a CAD fikes for a pic rail receiver end plate, but needs a shop that can/will do the work. Please IM contact info if you can help, & I'll relay to him. Thanks. |
| Would be good to elaborate if he's looking for one or a future production partner, etc. More complete information will likely get you more likelihood of replies. Run into this all the time, I'm a moderator at Practical Machinist. Sounds like just one? Something different than available off the shelf, I take it? |
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Originally Posted By sneaker: Would be good to elaborate if he's looking for one or a future production partner, etc. More complete information will likely get you more likelihood of replies. Run into this all the time, I'm a moderator at Practical Machinist. Sounds like just one? Something different than available off the shelf, I take it? There's no off-the-shelf product out there. From the shop's perspective, the issue is having enough demand to justify doing production runs. He has already designed & contract-produced various ARX-related upgrade parts. Getting at least an initial commitment from a shop to do the job, subject to a minimum # of orders, can help to line up buyers. If he can at least get that, then getting the word out & generating orders is the easier follow through. I'm personally down for 3 of the adapters myself. |
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Sent you my info. We can make them, anodize and we have in-house assembly. ETA: Job shops are looking at this as programming, setup, time and material. I usually give a quote with: Programming & Fixtures: One-time NRE (unless the shop wants to put their own time in optimizing the process). This would also include any job-specific tooling (custom porting tools, broaches, form tools, etc..) Machine Setup: Per-Run NRE for prepping the machine. Real production machines might have 30 or 100+ tools on top of any fixtures or aux equipment to setup and locate. Complex setups might take a few days the first time. This is where volume saves you money...up to a point. Time & Material: This is what most people are thinking about. How long is the cycle time and what does the material cost? Add in consumables (not so much with aluminum) if necessary and you have what it takes just to make one part. With these numbers you can price out whatever quantity you want. $5k programming, $1k setup and $10 part can give you one $6010 part or one thousand $16 parts. |