[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Ok, Magpul. Admit it... (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/21/2013 5:50:12 PM EDT
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You've made a polymer lower as a test. You did it. I know you have.
You can't not have tried it just for the hell of it. You have all the equipment, you designed your own metal lowers, you have sixteen trillion buttloads of polymer material. Just admit it.There is a Magpul poly lower somewhere in existence. I just want to see a photo. That's all. |
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One would assume that they don't want to alienate their OEM contracts.
Or, they're just doing some *seriously* long term testing to make sure it works perfectly before even dreaming of production runs. Imagine if they did actually sell them...$50 for a stripper AR lower might not be an impossible price point. |
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I WANT THIS!!! 
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/486963_10152446069680131_1466626266_n.jpg I still have one of those posters. I don't know what the online reaction was, but the energy at that shot show due to that product was unbelievable. It literally stole the show. Like the OP I've contemplated the possibilities of a potential/hypothetical "PLower" and have some definite ideas on what I would like to see. |
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I WANT THIS!!!
[Magpul Masada] I still have one of those posters. I don't know what the online reaction was, There was ... uh ... enthusiasm. I mean. Just a little. A skosh. A wee dram. People were excited enough to be quite thoroughly butthurt about Bushmaster's launch of the ACR 3 years later. (I like mine, FWIW.)
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| If CavArms did it quite some time ago, I bet a dollar to a doughnut MagPul gave it a whirl. But didn't they say not too long ago they didn't want to be in the business of selling serialized items? Thought I read that here. May be mistaken. Might have been a different vendor. |
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Also made one "just cause" means you don't know much about molding. Rapid prototype (ie, 3d printers) comes long before molding. A 3d printed lower would be incredibly weak compared to an injection molded lower. I don't see why you couldn't basically just mill a lower out of a polymer block though. |
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Also made one "just cause" means you don't know much about molding. Rapid prototype (ie, 3d printers) comes long before molding. A 3d printed lower would be incredibly weak compared to an injection molded lower. I don't see why you couldn't basically just mill a lower out of a polymer block though. The Masada prototypes were 3d printed and were functional. Certainly not arguing that it is as strong as molded, but it's a certainty that there would be 3d printed prototypes long before there would be molded ones, if there ever would be molded ones. |
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I think a lot of you are over estimating the profit margins on producing a lower. You have to look at the costs of legal fees, insurance, licensing, etc for a product that might not make you a whole lot of money. Economics is a bitch sometimes. Injection-molding plastic stuff, if it's in quantity, is awfully cheap. A whole lot more so than forging, machining, and anodizing. In fact, injection-molding a lower receiver probably wouldn't cost more than a few dollars more than producing a PMAG. |
wo wo wo... stop the clock!
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do want, do want, do want |
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I think a lot of you are over estimating the profit margins on producing a lower. You have to look at the costs of legal fees, insurance, licensing, etc for a product that might not make you a whole lot of money. Economics is a bitch sometimes. Injection-molding plastic stuff, if it's in quantity, is awfully cheap. A whole lot more so than forging, machining, and anodizing. In fact, injection-molding a lower receiver probably wouldn't cost more than a few dollars more than producing a PMAG. Yes, it cheaper to produce once you have paid for the sunk costs, but the sunk costs are quite large. Its a question of risk versus reward, blindly stating that Magpul could make tons of money doing this is ridiculous, especially factoring in opportunity costs. Could they make a lot of money? Maybe, but there is a lot more that goes into making a product line profitable than internet guesses. |
| Word on the street is Magpul is extremely open about their research and development and production. I hear they operate out of a translucent building so everyone can see exactly what they are up to, in addition to that big counter on top that says how many P-Mags they manufactured for the day. |
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Word on the street is Magpul is extremely open about their research and development and production. I hear they operate out of a translucent building so everyone can see exactly what they are up to, in addition to that big counter on top that says how many P-Mags they manufactured for the day. 
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Word on the street is Magpul is extremely open about their research and development and production. I hear they operate out of a translucent building so everyone can see exactly what they are up to, in addition to that big counter on top that says how many P-Mags they manufactured for the day. hahaha, actually made me LOL! 
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