Now showing! CF mag body!

[snoopay700]

Haven't really come up with a price yet - I'd have to finish the design, get a quote from my machinist and figure up how much the CF tube is going to cost and the time and tooling it'll take to machine it. I was thinking somewhere closely above a ULE body though.

A CF rail might be a possibility, but its not really something that I'd want to pursue. A piece of solid stock that big would be pretty costly and the wear on the tooling would be atrocious (results in high price). Honestly if you do an aluminum rail correctly, there's not a lot of weight there. A lot can be safely removed. Same kind of goes with the breech section. There's too much machining to be done for me to feel comfortable doing it out of CF. Plus I think its one of the unique things that makes the design nice - put CF where its easily doable and use aluminum where its necessary.

Let me crunch some more numbers and see if I can come up with a rough cost. But for the time being if we say "a little above a ULE body" as far as cost, how many people would be interested in it?

Hey, if i could con you into doing a classic RT version i would be more than happy to pay that price.

[warpedmephisto]

Correct, that'd be for one like in the screen shot pictures.

I'm still looking up information on Garolite, but I'm mostly swaying towards an aluminum rail.

What all is involved with an RT body? Just a longer tube section?

[Ruler_Mark]

1 here

[SkinnyHare]

Correct, that'd be for one like in the screen shot pictures.

I'm still looking up information on Garolite, but I'm mostly swaying towards an aluminum rail.

What all is involved with an RT body? Just a longer tube section?

pretty much just that, a longer tube with the channel cut in the back end for the retention pin.

[Spider-TW]

1 for me.

*sigh* probably means a whole other mag...

[snoopay700]

Correct, that'd be for one like in the screen shot pictures.

I'm still looking up information on Garolite, but I'm mostly swaying towards an aluminum rail.

What all is involved with an RT body? Just a longer tube section?

Longer tube section, cut on an angle so the top is longer if you wish, and there is a banjo bolt hole instead of the smaller field strip screw hole. I'd have to get you measurements which i can't right now, but atech's thread might help you get the idea.
http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=234333 in there you can see what i mean by the slant, i just say that cause it looks cooler, but with your body it might be better to just end at the RT symbol for looks.

Here's how the full RT body looks:

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2565617#post2565617

[warpedmephisto]

Gotcha. Doesn't look like it'd be a problem. Straight cuts are a lot easier to do than angled ones, but I'll have to see what I can do. I think someone here locally has an RT I can take measurements from - if now I'll probably hit up one of you guys here to help me out with it.

[snoopay700]

Gotcha. Doesn't look like it'd be a problem. Straight cuts are a lot easier to do than angled ones, but I'll have to see what I can do. I think someone here locally has an RT I can take measurements from - if now I'll probably hit up one of you guys here to help me out with it.

Ok, sounds good, and yeah like i said, i think the angled cut would look nice, but it's by no means necessary because i know how hard those can be on tubes, especially when you need on side to be the top for sure, plus with the front end you have a flat back might look better.

[Spider-TW]

Ok, sounds good, and yeah like i said, i think the angled cut would look nice, but it's by no means necessary because i know how hard those can be on tubes, especially when you need on side to be the top for sure, plus with the front end you have a flat back might look better.

A CF vert feed RT classic body with cocker barrel threads. That would be something.

[trevorjk]

i think it looks good.

with a carbon fiber rail, and the DW Forgrip and a DW Fibur. this would look amazing. that and a x-valve.

ever think of the colored carbon fiber like on other after market brands?

[snoopay700]

A CF vert feed RT classic body with cocker barrel threads. That would be something.

Hell yeah it would, i would be thrilled, and it would be safer than making a collar cause the z cut in the body would actually stop the valve.

[trevorjk]

Hell yeah it would, i would be thrilled, and it would be safer than making a collar cause the z cut in the body would actually stop the valve.

that cut is in the rail

[snoopay700]

that cut is in the rail

Au contrare my dear friend, it is in the body. Note i was talking about the classic RT.

[cougar20th]

I like it alot. very interesting & new idea. Keep up the work. I would also possibly be interested in classic rt length one. But it all depends on timing & cost.

[MntlHazrd]

I WANT! I WANT! I WANT! I'll even take two if i have the money.

-Mntlhazrd-