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Posted: 10/15/2009 9:21:45 AM EDT
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I am a student at bgsu, working in business and entrepreneurship. In one of my classes the prof has asked us to come up with a problem that we can work on solving. There are no limits to what we can do and it can be a hypothetical situation or something we actually try to fix and market.
I wanted to work on something that interests me, so I am turning to the board for suggestions. Do any of you have any ideas on a problem I could work on fixing related to AR's or a similar topic. If you guys can help lets start off broad and try to narrow it down a little after a few ideas. I know this isn't a typical post but I'm really hoping you guys can help me. I'm looking for anything that causes you guys pain while dealing with your rifles or related products that no one else seems to be addressing. Anything that just annoys or upsets you about these things that could be improved yet for some reason isn't. Nothing is out of the question but lets try to keep it to something that a normal, underfunded college kid with a pretty good knowledge of rifles and working on things can accomplish. I do have connections to funds if we should come up with a really good idea, but it's going to have to be something VERY GOOD for that to all work out. thanks for any input, i look forward to hearing what you guys have to say. SB |
| I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but here goes: One thing that "causes me pain" is the CANTED FRONT SIGHT BASE. What about a jig that clamps to the UPPER RECEIVER RAIL and extends out to the FSB...picture a long SCOUT RAIL with a tuning fork on the end, and the FSB could be centered with precision during the barrel install process. |
| A buddy and me were talking about why the bolt has to be so long. We were thinking about somehow making a shorter bolt that wouldn't require it to go into the buffer tube that way you could completely remove the butt stock. We aren't sure if there is anything like that out there already but what do you guys think of that idea? |
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I think they already redid the bolt going into the stock issue with the new ACR.
I like the sounds of fixing canted FSB's. With todays technology I dont understand how they accidently let canted ones slip through QC processes. Maybe find a better way to attach the dust cover so you dont have to install it with the barrel off the upper. |
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maybe you can explore why the states have differing laws from eachother and the country and how "we the popple" lost our voices in OUR laws hehe...sorry for stirring the pot. By all means, stir the pot. But we aren't really looking at changing or guiding legislation on this particular project. I completely agree that we may(probably) are headed in a direction that I do not agree with in regards to gun laws. It's just thats not what we are working on. We are trying to come up with something that I can do to generate an income. In many cases entrepreneurs get their start by fixing a problem with a current product they buy and use, that needs improvement. That is what I'm trying to do here. A global brainstorming session, my prof would be so proud of me.... Nonetheless, thank you for your input, keep some ideas coming. I really like the dust cover idea, I hadn't even considered that but I think it might be something that I can really run with. Mounting a rod on the AR for lodged casings is something else that might be a good possibility, A couple quick thoughts on that, probably would need to be a collapsible, or fold-able design, and I'm thinking we could make use of the bayonet lug to mount it, put it inside the handguard underneath the barrell (this would hide it but wouldn't make it very quickly/easily availible and would probably require some mods to the handguards), or mounting it on the butt stock, this would keep any extra weight to the rear and how often would it get in the way if it's on the side of the butt stock that your body isn't. Say I shoot with the gun in my right shoulder, I'll mount it on the right side of the stock.. |
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Would it be possible to make a simple barrel swap system for the AR. I know the gas system would be the major problem, but it seems like it should be possible to make something that you can just kinda twist and lock in place that will seal it up tight... Good idea, but already been done.. http://www.mgimilitary.com/qcb.htm I have an idea, finding a universal solution for the dreaded Gas pistol Carrier tilt... |
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Hmmm, this is a project for a university... You want to bring up a problem with scary evil black rifles and enhance them to be more effective cop killing black scary rifles?
I try to avoid my interest with firearms as much as possible when at school since most of the teachers think guns will grow legs and start shooting everyone. |
| Supposedly the new LMT MRP piston is supposed to have a couple of things done to it to minimize the tilt issue if i remember correctly. MillerTime has my magazine with an article on this and I'm pretty sure they said they fixed this problem for the most part. But it might be worth looking into some sort of universal kit to minimize the effect in other brands and models |
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Hmmm, this is a project for a university... You want to bring up a problem with scary evil black rifles and enhance them to be more effective cop killing black scary rifles? I try to avoid my interest with firearms as much as possible when at school since most of the teachers think guns will grow legs and start shooting everyone. He said to do "whatever we want" I typically don't bring it up either because of the same reasons. Most profs are at least, somewhat liberal. But I also figured, if i'm doing something I like, I'm going to do a lot better job and hopefully it will be so well done that they wont even care what I'm talking about. Especially if I make a couple million.... |
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Both very good ideas that I think I could pursue, thank you guys, I'm going to do some research on these two ideas and see what I can come up with. Any more ideas? Yeah, our ideas are our own intellectual property and any profit derived from them must be shared with who came up with your product to sell. |
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Both very good ideas that I think I could pursue, thank you guys, I'm going to do some research on these two ideas and see what I can come up with. Any more ideas? Yeah, our ideas are our own intellectual property and any profit derived from them must be shared with who came up with your product to sell. I was hoping no one said anything.. I'm sure some kind of agreement can be reached |
| Seriously changing the way the ejection port cover attaches would be a good easy project. It would be good fix for people who put there barrels on and then realize they forgot to put there dust cover on. I don't see why it attaches like it does, it would not be hard to flip the pin around. |
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how about a redesigned upper receiver that mates with existing AR lowers.
new upper has steel rails integrated which match to a redesigned bolt carrier which will ride in / on those rails. All of this to allow for a proper piston conversion on an AR. Barrel / Bolt should remain std. Upper receiver and Bolt carrier would be redesigned. This would properly eliminate the problem of carrier tilt. |
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The brass deflector would be a simple class project. There are tons of more in depth problems but that woudl be the good one to address for class. Now quit stalling on AR15.com and get some work done I can't I'm addicted to AR15.com. It consumes my life.... I don't have to decide until sunday/monday so I'm going to keep trying to get all the ideas I can |
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