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Posted: 5/16/2008 4:24:02 PM EDT
So we decided to bite the bullet and start the process for a dedicated "A1" upper forging tool. This is a CAD model of it.  The PO is in, but I don't expect to have any finished forgings until later this summer. |
They will be 7075. And I doubt we would sell enough A1 uppers in black to justify a run. We still have some NDS-16A2 lowers in "Pre-ban" gray, and we only did about 20 of those............................ 
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I expect to buy myself an upper and lower for myself for my birthday in August for my A1 build. I'm working full time again, so I'll be putting in an order for a lower soon. (FINALLY!) Thanks for listening to us Mike. I'd buy a grey A2 lower if I had an upper I thought it would look good with - I like the light grey pre-ban color. Be great for a 'retro' A2 build. (Ducks and runs from onslaught of thrown tomatoes...) 
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Hey Mike. How bout a 3D rendering?  Side note, I know tooling isn't cheap, I wonder what happen to the old tooling that Colt and other forging companies used when they switched to the A2. Did they destroy them or are they sitting on a shelf somewhere waiting to be resurrected? |
That stuff is long gone. Forge tools are only good for a couple of thousand parts, then they have to be weld repaired and re-machined. After a couple thousand more parts, the dies are shit-canned. Part of the cost is the maintenance and making of new dies. When the original one is worn out, them make another set for us. When sales switch to a "new" model (A2) they probably shelved, and then scrapped the old design. |
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