Posted: 3/7/2013 2:40:04 PM EDT
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Whats the deal with no BCG? or charging handles?
Frank'd one of your lower's... don't want to do the same with another. PSA lower, PSA build kit ( buffer tube/spring etc with LPK) now to finish it with a PSA upper WITH BCG and handle.... help |
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Whats the deal with no BCG? or charging handles? Frank'd one of your lower's... don't want to do the same with another. PSA lower, PSA build kit ( buffer tube/spring etc with LPK) now to finish it with a PSA upper WITH BCG and handle.... help bcgs are so rare i think you'd be doing something if you foudn them with bcg's. IDK what the hold up is on the charging handles though.. I read somewhere that bcg's are only made every so often because of the metal but i dont know if thats true or not.. sounds less true than true to me. |
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Bolts are scarce right now because only a few places make the Carpenter 158 steel and they only make in batches to order. But the good news is basic charging handles are in stock as of 7:40 AM central time.
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Bolts are scarce right now because only a few places make the Carpenter 158 steel and they only make in batches to order. But the good news is basic charging handles are in stock as of 7:40 AM central time. Charging Handles thats what i heard.. i knew it was somethign like that.. but why dont they have tons of Carriers assemblys ready to got hough if its only the bolts.. ? |
| Demand has stripped supply. Inventory levels that once lasted a month, now lasts only an hour. Increasing capacity requires significant investment in tooling, material, machinery, and time. Manufacturers are always reluctant to act on spikes in demand for fear that they get caught with too much capacity when demand falls. |
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Demand has stripped supply. Inventory levels that once lasted a month, now lasts only an hour. Increasing capacity requires significant investment in tooling, material, machinery, and time. Manufacturers are always reluctant to act on spikes in demand for fear that they get caught with too much capacity when demand falls. i know we're tlaking about guns and all that.. so with that said, is there such a thing as too much?!?!? LOL seriously though i can understand that reasoning, but we went thru this last election in 08, i'd of thought they'd of kicked up the production just in case anyways.. Those that would have h ad the initial expense in tooling would be making a killing now, as being the only ones with the stock to sell. |
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Demand has stripped supply. Inventory levels that once lasted a month, now lasts only an hour. Increasing capacity requires significant investment in tooling, material, machinery, and time. Manufacturers are always reluctant to act on spikes in demand for fear that they get caught with too much capacity when demand falls. i know we're tlaking about guns and all that.. so with that said, is there such a thing as too much?!?!? LOL seriously though i can understand that reasoning, but we went thru this last election in 08, i'd of thought they'd of kicked up the production just in case anyways.. Those that would have h ad the initial expense in tooling would be making a killing now, as being the only ones with the stock to sell. There's a lead time for purchasing, installing, and getting new machinery up and running. Plenty of speed bumps that can get in the way. Think about what happens when you now have a new machine to make payments on and demand drops off. My real world experience: I work for a small manufacturer. In the middle of December, the owner decided to buy new equipment to take advantage of acceleration depreciation. Total knee-jerk reaction purchase. We've run in to several issues, one of which included having to get more power in the building and "oh wait, your old machines need to be brought up to electrical code, too". I'll be writing check # 2 of 60 next week and the new equipment hasn't made one part yet. The whole mess has really screwed up cash flow. And in the middle of all this, I'm faced with the concern of one of our largest customers talking about changing production methods which would mean us losing a good amount of their business. So many folks around here have no clue how the real world works. It's not as easy as "buy more equipment" and "hire more people". Sure would be nice , though. |
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no i get that.. but i was thinking more along the lines of BCG's manufacturing. even when times were good say last august, there was high demand for BCG's and they were going faster than you can put them out..and had been since at least 08... so i would have thought that the folks who produce them, would have been tooling up even more to produce a surplus... I get the whole expense versus over expense thing... guess what i was saying is i didnt think there was such a thing as too many bcgs produced lol
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no i get that.. but i was thinking more along the lines of BCG's manufacturing. even when times were good say last august, there was high demand for BCG's and they were going faster than you can put them out..and had been since at least 08... so i would have thought that the folks who produce them, would have been tooling up even more to produce a surplus... I get the whole expense versus over expense thing... guess what i was saying is i didnt think there was such a thing as too many bcgs produced lol I think a lot of businesses in the gun industry were betting the election was going to go differently and did not start to ramp up production until the end of October. As far as BCG's there are only a few manufactures so if you have a large spike in demand without any competition to fill that demand there is little incentive to expand production capabilities. That is the short run scenario in the long run I believe we will see new competition not just increased production. BCG's production was maxed out before the election and after the election demand expanded so much the manufacturing base has no ability to meet demand. In 6 to 12 months either demand will drop or manufacturing capacity will increase, but it will take at least that long for new production to come up. |