Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "Why Guns Take Years to Get Into Production" video.

  1. They are. But they also know that the bubble is starting to taper off and that if they are paying overtime to make something that they will sell it basically normal retail prices by the time it's ready to sell they're going to take a loss on it. So they taper up before a bubble is anticipated work at peak that isn't going to hurt their long-term reputation for reduced quality, then taper down hopefully just before the bubble does. And if they're smart they keep reserve cash on hand to buy out useful competition just after the competition over produces too long and gets bit by the bubble popping.
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  2. Ian there was only talking about dimensional tolerance. That leaves out material composition heat treat tolerance coatings tolerance... You can nail all the dimensions and have a part be a little too riddle or a little too ductile and it won't do its job. Or maybe it does his job just fine but it beats up the part next to it. A good example too is minor tweaks making big differences. There's a series on SOTAR where he shows differences in metal surface treatments. And similarly on small armed solutions. An AR bolt carrier that is dimensionally identical but nitrided instead of phosphatid is a little bit more brittle in one impact point so they have to change the dimensions very slightly to get the same wear properties. And in a lot of cases when they take the same thing and make it in nickel boron coated, then that can mess up the screw threads for the gas key and cause leaks. So they have to add a manufacturing step of chasing the threads. Many manufacturers don't do that which makes nickel boron carriers potentially less reliable even though they on paper are better. If somebody does the extra step of chasing the threads and making sure the gas key is well sealed then they probably are better.
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