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Posted: 5/15/2011 11:20:55 AM EDT
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I would like to know why Free floating rail are made by expensive material like Aluminum?
Is it possible to redesign the AR free floating rail using composite material? The requirements of composite free floating rail 1. Extremely light weight 2. Harder than Aluminum alloy. 3. Possibility of injecting color into the manufacturing process, hence scratch proof. 4. 100% not bendable, extreme rigid. 5. Very low heat conduction 6. Very Low electricity conduction 7. Durable and reliable |
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I would like to know why Free floating rail are made by expensive material like Aluminum? Is it possible to redesign the AR free floating rail using composite material? The requirements of composite free floating rail 1. Extremely light weight 2. Harder than Aluminum alloy. 3. Possibility of injecting color into the manufacturing process, hence scratch proof. 4. 100% not bendable, extreme rigid. 5. Very low heat conduction 6. Very Low electricity conduction 7. Durable and reliable Here you go. And why to the highlighted in red??? |
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There are free float carbon fiber tubes but they are even more expensive than aluminum ones. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Why composite rails are not as common as Aluminum rails? Considering the cost of expensive Aluminum, I would have thought manufacturing composite rails would be cheaper. |
| There are limitations on current designs. The PRI is robust, however, its heavier than some aluminum forearms like the Troy TRX Extreme. Other forearms like the Clark, are just tubes and don't lend themselves for accessory mounting. the Lancer seems to have addressed the modularity issue, however, it requires red-locktite(ing) part of the system to the upper. Lancer if you are listening.... change that please. |
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