New Wokbutt for the new Talon/Condor
For years I have made an adjustable shoulder piece for the Talon/Condor. Airforce on their new rifles have followed my lead and now use a strap type version to hold their shoulder piece in place. While they used my idea of a strap on shoulder piece for the tank the way the implemented it just is not going to pass muster on strength and looks.
So I have developed a “New Wokbutt” for the Airforce rifles that come with their new strap on shoulder piece.
Here is the gun from the factory.
You can see the shoulder plate bolt to the back of the tank piece with a 10-32 bolt. There is no support under the shoulder piece and if hit wrong or dropped on the shoulder piece it may break.
Here is my new design for the “New Wokbutt”. It has all the adjustablility of the original Wokbutt but has support built in for the new AF strap shoulder piece system.
Tell me what you guys think of it so far..
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Good to know Adam. If you are comfortable with it, go for it. It would probably take a very hard hit to do what I envisioned anyway.
I figured I should say what I said, because honest feedback is what you want to hear for products like this.
To reiterate, I dont like AFs design. I haven’t since I first saw it.
I DO like your original design, but I would hate to see your mod to AFs shitty design to cause a failure, however improbable.
Riff,
I have cut those bottles in half and there is no way it will ever break open from dropping it.
I like your work Adam, but I don’t like AFs design at all so possibly you shouldn’t make this mod.
If enough downward pressure is applied to that thing (AKA the rifle is dropped) that thing could act as a can opener and burst the bottle.
Maybe not reinforcing that area would be best? Let that bolt break.
Your original strap design is much safer IMO. Yours does not create a pivot/crush point at the end of the bottle like AFs design does.
Maybe I’m wrong, but it just doesn’t look like AF did their homework on this one.
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Just noticed you moved the strap assembly rearward from the original position. Maybe you saw the same flaw I did?
I think it’ll work just fine.. Good job WoK!
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Nice work WOK. As long as AF continues to ignore all the R & D and consumer feedback posted here, you folks with the skills to make stuff we all want will continue to have a market.
Besides, if AF incorporated all the great ideas found here into their product, and there was less to fuck with on the gun, folks would buy one of the other great guns I read about that currently don’t benefit from modification.
To all the machinists and modders – keep up the great work. Gives guys like me something to do and some place to spend my money (besides whiskey and women).