They are being produced this week at the shop, the machine shop is busy so it took awhile. Need to laser engrave the stock positions still, heat treat, then send off for PVD which I’m fairly certain I’ll be going with at this time. Looks like maybe end of July is still an accurate timeframe.
I’ve done a few tweaks after lots of R&D:
-Added a very very minor taper to the end of the notch that holds the retractable pin, this helps to stop the buttstock from rotating out. This mod took the longest to sort out….
-I added a notch to be able to remove the spring if ever needed, the notch also doubles as a visual placement aid, to know where the top position of the tube is in the reciever, final adjustment should be done with buttstock.
-added a chamfer to the recoil pin notches. This was a late change I made recently, after extreme abuse testing quite a few prototypes, i noticed the metal was susceptible to deformation and expanding higher (I was literally banging buttstock on the gun against cement floor). Further investigating led me to looking at OEM example again and also extremely abused the OEM (which also deformed), this is when I noticed a chamfer, which has an important end use. If the metal deforms even the slightest, the chamfer stops the deformation from rolling up and changing the outside dimensions of the tube. It also increases strength of that particular spot, an angled contact point is always stronger.
it’s the little things I like to make sure are not overlooked!