Vestigial Air-port?

[Watcher]

What is this for?






It's 1/8" NPT threaded for air fittings... but it isn't an air-thru grip...

So...

[Smoothice]

can't tell from the pics... how does it attach to the rail?

looks like an adg bike grip. Which means it screws into a vert asa that attaches to the rail. so the air out port would be on the vert asa.

[jade_monkey07]

my friends was like that. the port doesnt go anywhere... its just a threaded hole to no where
use it to screw in some rediculous contraption

[Smoothice]

can't tell from the pics... how does it attach to the rail?
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Now I can see it. Guess I need a bigger cell phone screen

[eXo_oUtSiDeR]

I have one like that too, except it an rt pro foregrip.

[Thotograph]

Maybe you can drill it out to complete the air passage? I used to have one of these foregrips as well. I like the foregrips they feel very nice but I was bummed I couldn't run gas through like on my RPG Stik Grip

[Watcher]

its just a threaded hole to no where

Bingo, sorry I can't get a better pic. Every one I take straight down reflects too much and all you see is a shiny spot...

I have one like that too, except it an rt pro foregrip.

It is a RT Pro forgrip, I stripped the "sheath" off a bike-grip because I liked how it feels better.



... Why would they even put that in though, it had to cost more to drill and tap the hole than to just leave it, and it can't be weight reduction because that would just be a hole; they wouldn't bother to tap it and it would be a lot deeper...


So what is the point, is there something that would attach there like a bipod or something? Idk...

[eXo_oUtSiDeR]

To be honest i really don't think that there is a point. They could be some sort of leftover type things from the rt classics which were tapped and air through. They might have just not tapped them all the way. Also AGD is just weird like that lol, i know that on the back of the rt classic rail there are two holes tapped, they don' even run into the air through part of the rail. Theres no real way to explain it, agd just does some weird stuff sometimes

[Watcher]

AGD is just weird like that lol, i know that on the back of the rt classic rail there are two holes tapped, they don' even run into the air through part of the rail. Theres no real way to explain it, agd just does some weird stuff sometimes

Those two holes don't run into the air-thru channels?

Well, when I oil my classic sometimes a little bit seeps out of the right one. I kept meaning to take it out and re-tape it or whatever but I don't have the right size allen wrench...


Well, maybe I can find something cool to do with it... Maybe use it in conjunction with a t-fittting to house an LPR for a pneu setup
But then I'd need a second port for the ASA to run the line to the T-fitting... so really it'd be a waste of time because I could just stick it on the ASA...

LOL

[malJohann]

What is this for?

My Tac-One has a vertical ASA into which the bicycle grip goes, this vertical ASA has another hole threaded for an air fitting, so you can feed it air from there and macro-line directly to the valve. Has been done many times before and I'm actually amazed that you don't know what its for. The picture below shows the threaded hole in the vertical ASA on my Tac-One.

[Watcher]

My Tac-One has a vertical ASA into which the bicycle grip goes, this vertical ASA has another hole threaded for an air fitting, so you can feed it air from there and macro-line directly to the valve. Has been done many times before and I'm actually amazed that you don't know what its for.

it isn't an air-thru grip...

It is a RT Pro forgrip, I stripped the "sheath" off a bike-grip because I liked how it feels better.

Sorry about the vid quality, it's late so I was trying to be quiet, and my ceiling light isn't the best so I used a LED flashlight in my mouth...


I think I figured out the RT classic screws... The 3 feed ports on either side are connected via a small duct perpendicular to the large ports. They connect side to side through the Banjo-Bolt.

They probably had to go in through the back of the rail to mill this small duct, then they capped them with the small set-screws.

Why would AGD abandon reason for madness? Everything they do makes sense, when you think about them, except for this grip...

[eXo_oUtSiDeR]

pm tom kaye and ask him?

[Hilltop Customs]

had one like that too...

AGD's early attempt at UL engineering j/k

[Ninjeff]

I always figured the weird stuff AGD put on the guns like that was probably for something that never actually came out. I figure TK is a pretty smart dude, and he probably had plans for all types of stuff that just never made it to market. So, when they were making those foregrips maybe that tapped hole served a purpose for something AGD wanted to add on later, but never got around to doing.

[SSP REAPER]

I have one like that too, except it an rt pro foregrip.

I think this one has a case of the "Drips"