$23 airsoft aluminum quad rail fits perfectly on Norinco CQ
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Personally, I think with ALL consumer retail goods, branding and intellectual property regulations are a cheap, government sponsored parlour trick designed to bilk stupid consumers into maxing out their credit cards to procure items with quality disproportionate to increased price. The thing is, if you take a hunk of aluminium ran through a CNC machine, it is the same whether that machine was operated by a child in factory China or a manufacturing engineer in the US.
The key difference is that in China, there's no minimum wage laws, no environmental protection laws, no labour laws, no entitlements, no transfer payments, public health care, no consumer safety regulations, no employer mandated insurance, etc. etc. etc. Personally, I think a price differential between a brand name good that is 3-4x the price yielding 25-50% improved quality is a rip off.
The key trend though, over the 8 or so years I've been shooting, I'm not seeing any noticeable improvement in Western made goods, but leaps and bounds in Chinese made ones. I don't think the Chinese have fully caught up now, but very shortly, they will. This same trend is true with all other consumer goods - electronics, clothes, vehicles, you name it - the Chinese are getting better at it, while Western manufacturers are stagnating and begging for government bail outs to their failing business models.
To that end, Westerner producers can either retool and try to contain costs (impossible, with the way our communistic government's operate) or lobby the governments to engage in trade wars to restrict trade by hyperenforcing nonsense regulations that kill all incentive to improve quality, such as tariffs and especially intellectual property laws. Quite frankly, with the system of "democracy" that exists here, I think it's more profitable (for shareholders and manufacturers) to lobby the government to start a trade war than to invest in infrastructure, process improvements or R&D.
As consumers, while the governments let us, I think the most sensible thing to do is load up on amazingly cheap deals while we have a chance.
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Hey Harbl: got any installed pics? Also, how does it work with the delta ring? On/off?
Pics tonight.
They fit into the delta ring the way a standard clamshell set of handguards do.
Without intellectual property rights there will be no R&D.
When a company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions designing, testing, improving a product to bring it to market.
If someone else can come in and duplicate that product especially today with a 3D printer and produce it with sub standard materials for a fraction of the price there will be no incentive for R&D.
People won't risk their life savings to try to develop a revolutionary new product to bring to market if someone can just copy it for a few bucks and undercut them.
People who max out their credit cards to purchase consumer goods are stupid beyond belief and don't need the government conspiring to help them spend their money.
That's the key phrase.
The problem is the governments manipulation of input costs that producers are forced to pass on to their consumers in the form of artificially high prices.
Thus, to bring ANYTHING manufactured domestically to the market, producers HAVE to price in all the variables listed above that their foreign (read, Chinese) competitors don't.
It's a govern created problem, and of course the governments solution is probably to create more problems by further intervention into the market.
If a competitor comes up with a higher value version of your product, the onus is on you, not the government to remain competitive. That's what is supposed to happen in a free market.
I run made in china ammo through my made in canada and made in america rifles. Will my d!ck fall off?
On a static range, dx stuff is a moot point, nobody is going to fail operationally.
Dilligaf, I've been wanting to run a rifle length or sceptre length yhm diamond on my 14.5. If I cut off the fsp, it should fit?
On a static range, dx stuff is a moot point, nobody is going to fail operationally.
Dilligaf, I've been wanting to run a rifle length or sceptre length yhm diamond on my 14.5. If I cut off the fsp, it should fit?
My son has bought himself a number of AS guns. On three of his rifles, the Tac rails are different sizes . Be careful when attaching good optics and make sure everything fits like it should . an AirSoft trijicon or elcan sight is about seventy five - hundred and fifty bucks so if it snaps off and hits a rock it sucks but not as much as losing a $2500 optic because you went for the 20 dollar rails .
s thump. Its neither here nor there for me at that length. I think rifle length might work better for what I want to achieeve
They do. I have quite a few. I'm thinking I might buy a whole bunch of these quad rails. DX sometimes gets some really good gun things then stop producing them.
Nice, glad to have confirmation!
Do you think the knock off/PTS magpul stocks work as well? I have a UBR stock installed on a .22 that I got for $35....it looks damn sturdy and works just fine for a rimfire, but I don't have an AR yet to try it on...
I mean knock off CTRs go for $10.50 straight from hong kong, it would be a hell of a deal if they can be used without problems on firearms...
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It was a bit snug, but the DX-CTR knock off fit on my Nork CQ. I didn't like that it was heavier too.
I think the buffer tubes on DX are definitely out of spec - about 0.2" smaller than the Nork ones.
man DX is weird, I ordered 13 items, waited 2 weeks and contacted customer service, they said they are awaiting some stock and will ship soon
mar 19 - 8 items shipped
mar 21 - 1 item shipped
mar 22 - 2 items shipped
2 more outstanding items left
mar 19 - 8 items shipped
mar 21 - 1 item shipped
mar 22 - 2 items shipped
2 more outstanding items left
