Rifle Scopes Area 419 got rings!!
- Thread starter _Windrider_
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Thanks...do you see anything like this:
I ask because everything I have ever bought from 419 has been machined and finished beautifully but I also do not disbelieve @TheOE800 at all. Just sort of wondering if he got a one off, less that perfect, escaped past QA, set of rings or???
If the broken edge of the anodizing is on the chamfer, I doubt that it will come into contact with the scope body. As you stated, it may be cosmetic...
Don’t forget to order your 40 dollar lapping bar off brownells to get those CNC machines rings lined up on your rifle.
I don't but I also bought an MDT "blem/second" where apparently it has tool marks that were unacceptable in QC. I have yet to find them.
Like I said earlier, I think the rings are a work of art. I got the pic rail for them as well, for a Send It level. The caps are serialized, the tolerances are thinner than a sheen of oil, the finish is fit and stunning.
I'm not fanboi'ing Craig or Area 419 specifically, but the product speaks for itself. Area 419, as usual, knocks it out of the park.
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I agree, something ain't right with those caps.
Reach out to Area 419. They'll make it right.
I kind of see what you're talking about now. I went back and looked at mine. If you get zoomed in really close you can see the tool path. Mine don't look as defined as yours. Personally, it doesn't bother me.
One thing I can say I absolutely don’t like is the steel screw threads into the aluminum. Yeah for scope rings that’s fairly normal but for clamping jaws it’s not and probably the only ring/mount in my possession that threads directly into aluminum there.
Yes, but isn't that true of all aluminum rings...that is, the fasteners are steel?
Perhaps? These are my first rings in over ten years. My unimounts have 1/2” nuts that thread onto steel studs (military style) or a steel threadsert on the opposite side of the clamp bar that the bolt screws into.
Things I do like include the pinned caps, similar in function I presume to the skirted caps that RRS included on their mounts.
Yeah, I couldn't say, personally. I have only run steel rings and have never own aluminum.
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Fuck that....nap time is NOW, young un' hahah
And yes, I do use actual modern design rings....made by ARC! haha
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7075, yes, but these are cut tapped because of the fairly thin sidewalls of the ring. With the hard ano after cutting, we thought it the best method.
The tool-pathing on top was an intentional design choice. Pure aesthetic of liking those lines to give the part some texture/character.
Also, the places the ano has marginally chipped or flaked on that chamfer, that's why the chamfer is there. Anodize is basically a hard candy shell, so to go back in and bore post-ano will cause that to happen in every situation we could muster, so to isolate and minimize it, we have that little chamfer to keep any chipping or flaking from being any larger than what you're seeing. You'll also see it happen where the insude wall of the bored ring meets the "flats" where the two halves of the ring connect.
What we think you guys will really notice though, and we have had independently verified by friends in the optics manufacturing world - greater grip on the optic, with less force on the main tube, resulting on fewer instances of slippage or optical drift!
