Disappointed with Area419 Match Rings

[flyfisher117]

I’d rather have a round cross bolt. There’s a better chance I will get even contact across the whole width of the bolt. Two flat faces will almost never mate up perfectly.

 

[grfox92]

To those who do not understand that concentrating the contact force between the pic vertical wall and a horizontal line on a round bar, I regret your failure to grasp a simple engineering concept, but I wish you well.

To those who got their feelings hurt because a customer is dissatisfied with a poor engineering compromise, oh well.

To those who asked if I used the rings: Of course not. I am not going to expose an integral pic rail on an expensive rifle to damage due to a faulty ring design.

As pointed out above, Zeiss, Seekins, etc. offer rings which do not have the defect of a round bar pushing against a flat wall. (And yes, yield of aluminum on the pic wall is ultimately the vulnerability.

And Clay, a bunch of these rings “like new, used once” have sold on SH. I have returned mine, as the engineering problem was immediately apparent in person although concerned on the Area419 website.

This is a "simple engineering concept" that you have made up in your head. Plenty of people have explained, not only why it doesnt matter, but also why a round bolt is actually better, including a skilled gunsmith. But hey, you're an expert who knows better than everyone else.

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[schmidty3]

Whats a nice bolt? 150 ksi yield? A steel pic rail is probably at least 125 ksi yield. You could probably bolt a truck to those rings and pick it up, and not create a round indention into your pic rail.

Me personally, I think they are onto something with that raw aluminum.

I had the 34mm high hunt rings, but wanted to try a wmlrf, so bought the 39mm hybrid rings and a diving board. Took the minox off, remounted it....


Whatever they got going on with that machine is dialed in. My zero was 0.1 mils off. Made me tingly in my engineering loins.