Hey guys, I’ve got some good news and some bad news.
The bad news first: there was a machining error with the rear “tang” of the chassis where the buttstock tube installs on to. I have double checked my CAD files and prints and confirmed those are correct, but the chassis came with some extra material that shouldn’t be there, which prevents the buttstock tube from being able to fit over it.
The good news:
- There’s too much material, not too little, so it’s a quick fix. And it has already been fixed! About 0.020” needed to be removed off on one surface, and we’re back in business. With some extremely quick work from Red Beard Gunworks and
@ElMeheecan all of the chassis were measured and corrected. I can’t thank him enough for doing these so quickly. They literally unpacked all the chassis that were ready to ship and banged these out.
- The black and sage green chassis were already cerakoted, so those will have a raw aluminum area as shown below. But not to worry, it gets covered by the buttstock tube and epoxy, then is covered up by the stock grip panels. And fun fact, the factory AX chassis which are cerakoted (ATs are anodized) the tang is left completely raw aluminum. So there will be no performance of epoxy adherence issues.
- The remaining chassis that are still waiting for PB, DE, and Classic Green were machined and will be Cerakoted next, so you’ll never know they were touched up.
- The first production chassis has been installed successfully at the Red Beard shop. From what I heard it went smoothly other than the buttstock tang mentioned above.
I tell you all of this to continue to be open and honest about the progress of this project. I also didn’t want 20 of you to wonder what was up with that part of the chassis being machined. I’m hoping now that that’s all squared away that Red Beard will be able to re-package them up and ship them to me this week, then knock out the remaining colors. I have everything ready at home to ship them to you guys, literally everything is bagged and tagged, boxes are ready, just need to make shipping labels.
Thanks for all of your continued patience!
Sam