Lancer Translucent AR15 Mags

Rivets attached to plastic do not hold very well. The more rivets in a small area, more prone to breakage. Drop one on concrete making contact with the feed lips ... I would not buy those.
 
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Rivets attached to plastic do not hold very well. The more rivets in a small area, more prone to breakage. Drop one on concrete making contact with the feed lips ... I would not buy those.
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Not true - no rivets in the steel feed lips. The 4 dimples you see is where the injection mold tooling holds the feed lips in place in the cavity as plastic is injected. Feed lip is held in place since the steel stampling has 16 little holes ( each side ). The plastic when injected flows into the holes essentially locking them in place

Only downside Is the current generation does not have a no tilt follower. You can modify a Magpul to fit in but not worth the hassle for me.

Here is some lancer propaganda videos showing drop test and extreme cold testing at the bottom of the webpage

http://www.lancer-systems.com/L5.html

I still prefer P-Mags but for what I use them for I can't see anything wrong with them
 
From Sweeney's book : Swiss plastics mags are almost indestructible. But the plastic mags that came with a DPMS rifle he tested broke easily. So if the Lancer's are anything like the DPMS's, stay away from them.
 
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The problem is that Swiss mags were designed to be plastic, and the mag well was designed to use the plastic mags. They have more room for more material.

The geometry of the AR15 mag well limits how thick your magazines can be, hence the reason most plastic mags are junk.
 
The pmag is good and it only uses PA66. The swiss mag was originally metal, then when it was adopted as the 550/stgw90 it went to plastic.
 
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TRG-42 said:
Not true - no rivets in the steel feed lips. The 4 dimples you see is where the injection mold tooling holds the feed lips in place in the cavity as plastic is injected. Feed lip is held in place since the steel stampling has 16 little holes ( each side ). The plastic when injected flows into the holes essentially locking them in place

Only downside Is the current generation does not have a no tilt follower. You can modify a Magpul to fit in but not worth the hassle for me.

Here is some lancer propaganda videos showing drop test and extreme cold testing at the bottom of the webpage

http://www.lancer-systems.com/L5.html

I still prefer P-Mags but for what I use them for I can't see anything wrong with them
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Awesome, thanks for that.

My mistake to assume the rivets. Close similarity in the photos.

Reluctant to shelf perfectly good GI aluminum mags for not so proven plastic ones nonetheless. Are there reasons for plastic mags an end user can benefit from?

I watched some of the test videos from the link supplied. Not impressed with them ... :rolleyes: ... and one of the mags cracked with the hammer drop test.
It's one thing to document a mag drop from a few feet in a controlled environment, quite another out in the field under varying conditions.
 
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What's your point?



hence the reason most plastic mags are junk.
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Your comment about plastic,mags must have been derived from your many years of actually using plastic mags .Most of the newer are Plastic mags all use far superior components than the previous offering from Ram Line or Thermold. I have used the Israeli Orlites with out any problems for many years The Current offering of these so Call plastic Mags are far superior to the USGI aluminium they are stronger structurally will survive damage attributed to dropping mags on hard surfaces like damage to feed lips
 
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