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Posted: 7/7/2015 10:03:59 PM EDT
| rumor has it that AP is the source for Armalite receivers as well as a few more. Can anyone confirm this ? How many other companies source their receivers from AP ? |
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Same place doesn't necessarily mean the same product... Store brand generic cola comes from the local Coke or Pepsi plant, made on the same machines - doesn't mean it's the same recipe or the same product. The thing about forged receivers though is, if the forgings come from the same source and are finished on the same CNC machines, the "generics" are much more likely to be the exact same as the "name brands" than in the case of soda. The machine shop isn't producing the forgings - they're only finishing them. The only variation that could take place when you use the same forgings, machines, and machine shop staff is the program used to mill the forgings. It's highly unlikely the shop would use a different program with different specs to finish off the exact same forgings just because they're going to two different companies. That doesn't make fiscal sense to constantly stop production and lose time changing programs and jigs just to tool up for various small runs for different manufacturers. The average consumer is buying a precise spec that isn't trademarked, licensed, patented, or protected. I would agree about the variation when it comes to billet receivers given the fact that they're so non-standardized, but forged receivers are usually so vanilla. You might find a company cheap out on anodizing or decide to use a different coating, but the bones of the receiver should be the same in the case of forged receivers coming from the same shop. You're much more likely to run into differences in forged receivers that come from different shops and use different forgings than forged receivers coming from the same shop using the same forgings. |
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