I had a clear plastic retainer for a while after braces. They get – ummmm – yukky after a while, despite scrubbing with toothpaste and soaking in cleaners.
I wonder if this clear plastic lower will last long enough to accumulate the crud from use that will make it look like a well-used retainer?
It possibly could be useful as an armorers training tool but even if it can handle the repeated stress of firing I think that after a while it would look like a fogged and scratched headlight. That said, the dork in me wants to see a matching stock, handguard and pistol grip to go with it.
>Oh, and TN should have used Lancer translucent mags in the video
Embed a red LED into the plastic resin when manufacturing and use a translucent magazine and you could “press-button check” your weapon in the dark like some 80s John Shirley cyberpunk novel.
I’m surprised people are questioning the durability of polymer lowers after so long, myself.
Adding dyes to make plastic opaque doesn’t make it stronger, guys – clear plastic can be just as strong as the opaque stuff, and the CavArms lowers and any number of polymer pistol frames should have demonstrated that the low stress of an AR lower was more than adequately served by modern polymers…
(I do expect it’d get dirty and lose the lovely transparency to scratches over time, yes, but … because racecar.)
June 15th, 2014 at 8:15 pm
And the best part of this, even though you might not make it through a whole case of .223?
In California it is an Off List Lower.
Schadenfreude.
June 15th, 2014 at 8:36 pm
That’s amazingly boring. Yeah, you can see the trigger pack, but other than that… Big whoop.
June 15th, 2014 at 10:04 pm
Clearly stupid
June 15th, 2014 at 10:15 pm
I don’t even ….
June 16th, 2014 at 8:30 am
It’s a Ghost Gun!
OK, It’s just goofy enough that I want one.
June 16th, 2014 at 8:34 am
I had a clear plastic retainer for a while after braces. They get – ummmm – yukky after a while, despite scrubbing with toothpaste and soaking in cleaners.
I wonder if this clear plastic lower will last long enough to accumulate the crud from use that will make it look like a well-used retainer?
June 16th, 2014 at 9:26 am
The AR platform has jumped the shark.
June 16th, 2014 at 10:10 am
It possibly could be useful as an armorers training tool but even if it can handle the repeated stress of firing I think that after a while it would look like a fogged and scratched headlight. That said, the dork in me wants to see a matching stock, handguard and pistol grip to go with it.
June 16th, 2014 at 10:37 am
Oh, and TN should have used Lancer translucent mags in the video
June 16th, 2014 at 1:04 pm
If it makes Daddy Bloomberg and Mama Feinstein weep and moan it’s worth it. Tears of Hippies come clear.
June 16th, 2014 at 2:17 pm
>Oh, and TN should have used Lancer translucent mags in the video
Embed a red LED into the plastic resin when manufacturing and use a translucent magazine and you could “press-button check” your weapon in the dark like some 80s John Shirley cyberpunk novel.
June 17th, 2014 at 3:03 pm
I’m surprised people are questioning the durability of polymer lowers after so long, myself.
Adding dyes to make plastic opaque doesn’t make it stronger, guys – clear plastic can be just as strong as the opaque stuff, and the CavArms lowers and any number of polymer pistol frames should have demonstrated that the low stress of an AR lower was more than adequately served by modern polymers…
(I do expect it’d get dirty and lose the lovely transparency to scratches over time, yes, but … because racecar.)