So I have been searching for where to get acrylic grip panels from and doing a lot of searching here on AO and PBN. Well I came across this thread here:
http://automags.org/forums/showthrea...t=acrylic+grip
And it got me to thinking. Would it be possible to make the body, rail, grip frame and foregrip of a mag out of acrylic?
I spent some time thinking about it last night. One could use the standard steel ring for the spring and bolt backup. Holes in the frame could be re-enforced with metal fittings and helix coils to help keep thread wear down. The only thing would be the barrel, detents and feed neck wouldn't be able to have metal threading unless you made an adaptor that contained all those items.
You'd probally want to make it pnuematic and the grip frame 90* for the purpose of being able to attach things to the bottom of the grip. A custom fitted alumininum plate at the bottom of the grip could be used to attach the ASA and LPR inside the grip. Just use long screws to attach the plate to the grip (and helix coils again).
I dunno if acrylic would e strong enough or if you can work with it to the tolerances needed though. Just an idea I had and was wondering if anyone had ever thought of/tried it in the past.
Think it's possible?
I know I'd be willing to pay a good amount of something like this. Imagine all the heads it would turn!
http://automags.org/forums/showthrea...t=acrylic+grip
And it got me to thinking. Would it be possible to make the body, rail, grip frame and foregrip of a mag out of acrylic?
I spent some time thinking about it last night. One could use the standard steel ring for the spring and bolt backup. Holes in the frame could be re-enforced with metal fittings and helix coils to help keep thread wear down. The only thing would be the barrel, detents and feed neck wouldn't be able to have metal threading unless you made an adaptor that contained all those items.
You'd probally want to make it pnuematic and the grip frame 90* for the purpose of being able to attach things to the bottom of the grip. A custom fitted alumininum plate at the bottom of the grip could be used to attach the ASA and LPR inside the grip. Just use long screws to attach the plate to the grip (and helix coils again).
I dunno if acrylic would e strong enough or if you can work with it to the tolerances needed though. Just an idea I had and was wondering if anyone had ever thought of/tried it in the past.
Think it's possible?
I know I'd be willing to pay a good amount of something like this. Imagine all the heads it would turn!
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