Stirling.....

[The_Shmoo]

When do you expect the receiver sets ordered at taccom to ship?

 

[The Shaft]

I see the same butstock as BCL, so i'm guessing this is made by BCL under contract.

no... actually I build em, right here in Calgary.

 

[wannabe]

is the lower 6061??? my ONLY question

 

[Sinasta]

Are yiu guys still carrying the Troy rifles?

 

[TSE JR]

When do you expect the receiver sets ordered at taccom to ship?

Within a week.

 

[TSE JR]

no... actually I build em, right here in Calgary.

The parts.... No....

The focus with sterling is to sell the parts which are definitely not made in Calgary.

Edge customs will be making full rifles with these parts though.

 

[tobaman45]

what will be the price tag of a complete rifle, don't see a price anywhere

 

[Brordo]

is the lower 6061??? my ONLY question

and mine as well...

 

[wannabe]

and mine as well...

LOL....my 6th sense seems to drift towards 6061....

 

[pizzadigest]

What's wrong with 6061?

 

[jiffx2781]

What's wrong with 6061?

It's softer than 7075-t6 so technically it will wear faster but the 6061 will still suffice as long as it's properly anodized to surface harden. Most civilian owned firearms will never see a high enough round count for the aluminum type to make any difference.

If the 6061 is simply Cerakoted instead of anodized then that becomes a different story.

 

[Tengoo]

Will/are the receiver sets fully DPMS compatible? Got a bunch of parts...

 

[TSE JR]

Will/are the receiver sets fully DPMS compatible? Got a bunch of parts...

100% compatible with DPMS parts. The whole plan was to make this as non-proprietary as possible.

Made of 6061.

JR

 

[Lee Enfield]

It's softer than 7075-t6 so technically it will wear faster but the 6061 will still suffice as long as it's properly anodized to surface harden. Most civilian owned firearms will never see a high enough round count for the aluminum type to make any difference.

If the 6061 is simply Cerakoted instead of anodized then that becomes a different story.

In an AR pattern firearm, there is very little to choose between the 2 materials - the AR15/M16 thru M16A1 family was all manufactured from 6061-T6, M16A2 family is manufactured from 7071-T6 material.

All the misinformation regarding what anodizing is/does is really harshing my mellow:

Anodizing does not "harden" or "strengthen" in a manner similar to "case hardening" or "carburising" steel.

Hardening 6### and 7### alloys requires two steps—solution heat treating and aging. This process is called precipitation hardening.

Anodizing is similar to "phosphating" (ie. "Parkerizing"), "bluing" or "browning" steel, ie. building a controlled layer of corrosion which is used to protect or seal the underlying material from further corrosion.

"Aluminium alloys are anodized to increase corrosion resistance and to allow dyeing (coloring), improved lubrication, or improved adhesion (of a surface coating). However, anodizing does not increase the strength of the aluminium object."

Ceracoat does exactly the same job - in some cases better than anodizing.

 

[wannabe]

thank you

 

[TSE JR]

In an AR pattern firearm, there is very little to choose between the 2 materials - the AR15/M16 thru M16A1 family was all manufactured from 6061-T6, M16A2 family is manufactured from 7071-T6 material.

All the misinformation regarding what anodizing is/does is really harshing my mellow:

Anodizing does not "harden" or "strengthen" in a manner similar to "case hardening" or "carburising" steel......

Ceracoat does exactly the same job - in some cases better than anodizing.

Thank you. This is 100% correct.

JR

 

[Tengoo]

100% compatible with DPMS parts. The whole plan was to make this as non-proprietary as possible.

Made of 6061.

JR

Excellent... I think the only major part I need to build a whole rifle is a BCG. Of course the parts I have are mostly cast-offs from other 308 ARs I've tinkered with, but I can live with that...