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Yes. The action fits nicely but at the moment I'm having feeding issues. Once or twice out of 10 rounds I get a case that pops up in front of the bolt head and wont feed that last few thou. I believe it is due to the geometry of my magazine feed lips. I currently use AI mags with Primal Rights 6BR kits. I am going to go back to the range and try to experiment with other mags and bending feed lips on the AI mags. I assume that this is just a minor hiccup that I will get fixed in short order.Is anybody running an Archimedes in a Wiskey 3? I'm leaning toward that setup.
The AI mags have longer feed lips, which is great for push feed actions, not so much for CRF actions. MDT BR mags have short feed lips which work great. Try a mag with shorter lips and see if things improve.Yes. The action fits nicely but at the moment I'm having feeding issues. Once or twice out of 10 rounds I get a case that pops up in front of the bolt head and wont feed that last few thou. I believe it is due to the geometry of my magazine feed lips. I currently use AI mags with Primal Rights 6BR kits. I am going to go back to the range and try to experiment with other mags and bending feed lips on the AI mags. I assume that this is just a minor hiccup that I will get fixed in short order.
It will allow longer loaded cartridges, at the cost of some rigidity.I've been debating which version of the MDT mags to buy, they are offered with or without the binder plate, is it okay to go without?
Which cocking pieces did they come back with?I got my bolts back friday and they are smooth, fast and work with all triggers (sent in 4)
Which cocking pieces did they come back with?
They look way different than those used by the nucleus.I’d love to know if these cocking pieces work on Nuclei.
Thanks for the XLYO update @karagias !!!!!
Keep up the good work. Plenty of folks don't know what it's like to create and innovate and want to produce the best product....especially on you own dime. What most companies do is release the inferior version only to create a Gen II the next year ....but you're trying to make sure that all of the products are designed and built correct from the start.
I have no horse in the race but you have to be joking or taking drugs. Lol
This whole thread is about customers having issues and then finally sending products back for personalized fixes from design flaws.
I got mine (#8) together yesterday and went and fired about 60 rounds through it of 6.5 creed, again not a hot round but i do run on the hotter side for the cartridge. I head to tweak the genius just ever so slightly on my mdt metal mag and after that it ran smooth and fast. No noticeably cock on close and plenty of primary extraction with the improved bolt handle. Overall impressions are favorable. Atleast for me this seems to be a very fast action. It will be getting a 7ss barrel in the future. Overall pleased with it and it completes a light build for a hunting rifle for me just in time for deer season in 3 weeks. View attachment 7169263View attachment 7169264
I have no horse in the race but you have to be joking or taking drugs. Lol
This whole thread is about customers having issues and then finally sending products back for personalized fixes from design flaws.
Brian,No pissing match
The actions didn’t work properly with many of the “liked “ triggers on the market. No debate on that
im glad people get free upgrades and design tweaks but tweaks are not functionality performance necessities.
if people are willing to send back items for “free” product improvement that’s one thing.
If people want to send back items for upgrading a products universality that’s another.
But items are being send back because the product is not performing as designed or marketed
if belief of the quality of a item is associated with free upgrades from original flaws, people need to retake marketing 101.
Brian,
Your sentiment is well placed. I make mistakes. No doubt about it. The mistakes happen because I'm pushing the limited resources I have too hard. We took on three large projects this year, Mausingfield 2.0, the Archimedes, and the Xylo. The workload associated with each of these is tough to appreciate unless you've experienced it for yourself. I'm optimistic to a fault. When I decide I want to do something, I almost instantly visualize the path from start to finish but completely forget about the pain experienced during the last project. Friends that used to encourage me to take on new projects have become sensitive to this and now ask me to promise that I will take a vacation or at least a break. But I've learned my lesson and that's at least part of the reason for the late Xylo release.
Everything take more time that I think it ought to. That's frustrates me. In a weird way, underestimating the time and the energy required to build a company as well as to develop the projects that will keep in solvent are prerequisites to starting a business like this. if I knew what I was in for, I'd probably decide to do something else.
So going forward, it's probably wise that we take things a bit more slowly. But all that said, the Archimedes turned out to be a pretty awesome action and I hope that the Xylo will be at least as good. And if customers experience any issue along the way, we'll do everything we can to make it right. That's a promise that i think we've been able to keep.
Ted
No pissing match
The actions didn’t work properly with many of the “liked “ triggers on the market. No debate on that
im glad people get free upgrades and design tweaks but tweaks are not functionality performance necessities.
if people are willing to send back items for “free” product improvement that’s one thing.
If people want to send back items for upgrading a products universality that’s another.
But items are being send back because the product is not performing as designed or marketed
if belief of the quality of a item is associated with free upgrades from original flaws, people need to retake marketing 101.
I'll try to post an actual picture of the Xylo sooner than later but for now, I hope this will do.
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Ted
I have a somewhat early Archimedes action that was sent back and fixed prior to the bolt lever update. I called ARC today to inquire about it and they offered to send me the new parts. I'm still waiting on a barrel so it sounds good to me.
Do u have the SA or LA? I'm planning to wait 'til they have the updated/fixed rail and bolt parts to send it back in for the fix.
I'll try to post an actual picture of the Xylo sooner than later but for now, I hope this will do.
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To Archimedes customers:I have a somewhat early Archimedes action that was sent back and fixed prior to the bolt lever update. I called ARC today to inquire about it and they offered to send me the new parts. I'm still waiting on a barrel so it sounds good to me.
No. I decided against ambi because there are no ambi M700 footprint actions out in the wild. Moreover, I don't want to encourage folks to put their face immediately behind an ejection port when firing a rifle.Still ambi?
No. I decided against ambi because there are no ambi M700 footprint actions out in the wild. Moreover, I don't want to encourage folks to put their face immediately behind an ejection port when firing a rifle.
That said, a right handed Xylo will accept a right-bolt left-port M700 type action. The top of the chassis is below the bottom of the ejection port. Just be careful if you have such an action. I've blown up lots of actions during testing and I can promise you that once you witness a rifle blowing up, you won't be thinking, "Gee, let's do that again but this time let me put my face next to it."
Ted