brown dog Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 This is the first post in a thread I'll add to over the coming days. I'll start with a question; who can link the following two pictures? : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannywayoflife Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Is that a proto type AW?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballistic Hamster Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 It's my new AX Bottom picture !!! when it arrives , ;-))) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jungle_re Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Both have gastly paint jobs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danpd Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Neither of them know the name of the boat house at Hereford..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jungle_re Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 It's Cecil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch_egg Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Both pics taken by the same person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offroad Gary Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Both pictures taken in Brown Dogs bedroom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Outstanding answers; a regular bunch of rocket scientists Here's another view: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangely Brown Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 In the first picture I think I can see early elements of the AW.........? I don't remember seeing it in the Small Arms Museum at Warminster, but that's where it looks like its housed, judging by the identity labels. Edited to add: Unless of course you have been to Pompey recently?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow belly Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 both designed and built by the same man, in the same shed?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambsey Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Was this the proto type that Dave Walls (Director of AI ) help to modify in his shed??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Yup, a few of you have got it. The first pic is of one of the prototype forerunners of the L96 designed and built by Dave Walls and Dave Caig (and not, as I learnt today, by Malcolm Cooper). I spent today with Tom Irwin and Dave Walls (Dave left, Tom right) the Directors of AI, and was pretty impressed by what a friendly team they've created and the massive improvements since my last visit (about 16 years ago!). I'll post a bunch of pics of what I saw over the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch_egg Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 Who is the fat guy in the middle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradders Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Who is the fat guy in the middle? Fat Matt Pop round my place and I'll give you a tour of Bradley Arms . com Should take about 5 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Here I am trying to soar like an eagle, and I'm surrounded by...Scotch and Bradders Scotch, book yourself on an E&D requal, I think it may have lapsed. 'Waist-challenged'. Bradders, well, yeah, 'Bradders' My next question to those (and I was one of them) absolutely unable to find 10 round AICS mags on the market. There's no valid reason for that difficulty from a production angle. Hazard a guess at AI's yearly magazine production.......answer below the photos Steel strip being stamped Being pressed into a magazine and Process rationalisation over the last few years has led to magazine production doubling over the last year from 24,000 to 48,000. 48,000! The same thinking (at a six sigma / aerospace engineering level of thinking is what's led to the AT etc; more to follow..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagged 77 Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Here I am trying to soar like an eagle, and I'm surrounded by...Scotch and Bradders Scotch, book yourself on an E&D requal, I think it may have lapsed. 'Waist-challenged'. Bradders, well, yeah, 'Bradders' My next question to those (and I was one of them) absolutely unable to find 10 round AICS mags on the market. There's no valid reason for that difficulty from a production angle. Hazard a guess at AI's yearly magazine production.......answer below the photos (that I'll post in a moment) I bet that was a good day out! In .223 I reckon about 10k a year. Overall 30k total production? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Jagged, Apols, I added to the post whilst you were posting: My next question to those (and I was one of them) absolutely unable to find 10 round AICS mags on the market. There's no valid reason for that difficulty from a production angle. Hazard a guess at AI's yearly magazine production.......answer below the photos Steel strip being stamped Being pressed into a magazine and Process rationalisation over the last few years has led to magazine production doubling over the last year from 24,000 to 48,000. 48,000! The same thinking (at a six sigma / aerospace engineering level of thinking is what's led to the AT etc; more to follow..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagged 77 Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Jagged, Apols, I added to the post whilst you were posting: Sorry, I jumped the gun... (pun intended ) Only 18k out then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangely Brown Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 10 round AICS magazines; has there been a problem in obtaining them in recent times? The last time I ordered two they came from SS by return! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandy Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Very interesting thread thanks for taking the time to post. For what it worth you look great in your chords / shirt combo, and who doesn't like a little more to cuddle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbal Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Matt, 48000 production is one thing,48000 sold on satisfied customer contract is another.From the perspective of the victim of unattainable consumer nirvana,Sigma Six is of little comfort. Kanban...? Gbal(pink belt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Matt, 48000 production is one thing,48000 sold on satisfied customer contract is another.From the perspective of the victim of unattainable consumer nirvana,Sigma Six is of little comfort. Kanban...? Gbal(pink belt) I think a reasonable deduction may be that the choke point on getting mitts on them ain't a factory-based lack of production. ... you'll have to make the deduction on where it may lie, if it exists, yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbal Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 I think a reasonable deduction is that the choke point on getting mitts on them ain't a factory-based lack of production. ... you'll have to make the deduction on where it lies yourself, I shan't spell it out. 40,000 infantry,zero inventory This is but one possible hypothesis-there is a human conflict going on! Of course,the logistic supply line involves people,and Sigma Six isn't so useful then....i.e. there may be boxes of the opportunities lying around somewhere between production and potential customers...but there probably is no short cut (Hodgdon 4831) either ! Perhaps we need "distribution free" statistical/analytic tools....,though I daresay,many of us would be willing to pay for shipping.:-) Gbal (yellow belt). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aam Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 brown dog, Thank you for posting those pics and looking forward to more. I love AI rifles and learning more and more about them. Especially the history and how they evolved to what they are now. Including their target models. I think I'm obsessed with the rifles. ( Is this normal?) Will be following this topic. Please pardon my ignorance, but what is a Six Sigma? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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