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Originally Posted By G3k: Kind of goofy to not do the stocks as well, or even do a run of green furniture for them. Matching the stock wouldn’t have been hard. It’s a lot harder than not doing it. Green furniture would cost a fortune, they’d need a new polymer blend and all the testing that goes along with it. Even if they just coated them it would add bunch of complexity to the assembly process vs just having one special part per rifle. These special color runs are basically free for the manufacturer and offers their sales team a chance to offer “exclusive” products to certain vendors and distributors. I’d imagine it also gives the retailers a chance to skirt map pricing because these are all new SKUs. |
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Originally Posted By Mblades: It’s a lot harder than not doing it. Green furniture would cost a fortune, they’d need a new polymer blend and all the testing that goes along with it. Even if they just coated them it would add bunch of complexity to the assembly process vs just having one special part per rifle. Actually green furniture wouldn't "cost a fortune." It is the same molds that they already have. That is by far the most expensive part of injection molding. Working with their polymer vendor to get a color that FN was happy with wouldn't be that difficult. Several different samples would be done in the color spectrum that they were looking at, and then a small pre-production run would be run. If still happy with the results of that a larger pre-production run would be run and if everything still looked good it would transition into the production run. Changing the color of the polymer is literally the easiest part of injection molding once you have your molds which FN has had for years now. It is also much easier from an operations stand point rather than having a bunch of new skus of cerakoted items which have potential for more things to go wrong from a QC perspective. |
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Originally Posted By tranzformer: Actually green furniture wouldn't "cost a fortune." It is the same molds that they already have. That is by far the most expensive part of injection molding. Working with their polymer vendor to get a color that FN was happy with wouldn't be that difficult. Several different samples would be done in the color spectrum that they were looking at, and then a small pre-production run would be run. If still happy with the results of that a larger pre-production run would be run and if everything still looked good it would transition into the production run. Changing the color of the polymer is literally the easiest part of injection molding once you have your molds which FN has had for years now. It is also much easier from an operations stand point rather than having a bunch of new skus of cerakoted items which have potential for more things to go wrong from a QC perspective. Originally Posted By tranzformer: Originally Posted By Mblades: It’s a lot harder than not doing it. Green furniture would cost a fortune, they’d need a new polymer blend and all the testing that goes along with it. Even if they just coated them it would add bunch of complexity to the assembly process vs just having one special part per rifle. Actually green furniture wouldn't "cost a fortune." It is the same molds that they already have. That is by far the most expensive part of injection molding. Working with their polymer vendor to get a color that FN was happy with wouldn't be that difficult. Several different samples would be done in the color spectrum that they were looking at, and then a small pre-production run would be run. If still happy with the results of that a larger pre-production run would be run and if everything still looked good it would transition into the production run. Changing the color of the polymer is literally the easiest part of injection molding once you have your molds which FN has had for years now. It is also much easier from an operations stand point rather than having a bunch of new skus of cerakoted items which have potential for more things to go wrong from a QC perspective. If it were that easy Magpul would offer stocks, furniture, and mags in every color of the rainbow. Instead it took 20 years for them to get a clear mag to market and they still can’t come up with a sand color that doesn’t crack. |
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