Posted: 2/14/2006 8:12:41 PM EDT
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I am looking for three lengths of the 18 slot ladder style rail covers. Everywhere I look they are about $12.00/18 slot length. To me this seems a bit ridiculous for a small piece of rubber. Am I looking in the right places? Anywhere I can get them for a reasonable price? Thanks much Stangle I tried this in the AR forum with no luck. |
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Molds aint cheap and if the volume isnt there things cost more. welcome to the firearms world. im ballparking it. R&D=$5000 Mold making=$15,000 machine cost= $45,000 for a new 50 ton machine so that is $65,000 to make a simple part... so at .50 each you would have to sell 130k rail covers. at $18 each you only need to sell 3500 rail covers. this is simplifying it EXTREMELY.. because you are not going to have just that one machine set up for just that. so you have labor in changing the molds, as well as minimum parts run each time so you dont lose money. |
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That's the thing. I don't need a tactical gimmick. The way I see it, those style rail covers are about as simplistic as you can get. I guess I could wrap my free-float in an old sock or something but that would look like absoulte shit. I might be forced to make my own somehow. |
That's the problem - they've figured out that it's JUST not quite worth your time to try to make your own, so like most of us, you end up sucking it up and paying the grotesque price - thus keeping it at that high level. I hate it as much as you do. If you figure out how to make them, start selling them for $10.00 
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i bet you could suspend your rail into a small channel, then pour some RTV silicone into it.. let it harden then remove the channel and pull it off your rail. |