Anyone looking for a part time person to help build AR15s?

[November Sierra]

You're going to bankrupt yourself real quick. How many other companies (Anderson, PSA, BCA, etc) provide exactly what you're wanting to do? What exactly are you going to do that they don't? Why would I spend $500 on your upper when I can get an established company's for not that much more? ARs are not a plug and play system, no matter how much people think they are. There's a lot of minutiae involved with them

 

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You're going to bankrupt yourself real quick. How many other companies (Anderson, PSA, BCA, etc) provide exactly what you're wanting to do? What exactly are you going to do that they don't? Why would I spend $500 on your upper when I can get an established company's for not that much more? ARs are not a plug and play system, no matter how much people think they are. There's a lot of minutiae involved with them

I spec'ed out an AERO enhanced upper...to repurpose a 20prac barrel...to get more accuracy out of it...after BCG and CH I am at $600 for full aero. going cheaper....just buy a PSA kit and replace the barrel. a complete upper under $500 is budget as ****. I have spent $450 on a Centurion mk12 barrel before.

Mk12 Barrel

These barrels are the result of tens of thousands of dollars in development done to give our Special Operations the best weapon system they can have.

centurionarms.com

and I am very happy with it...

 

[palmettomoon]

I get yall are just ****ing with me. But I do genuinely plan to eventually sell high quality, built Tuff, budget AR uppers to as many people possible. I don't plan on giving up on this, no matter how long it takes. Just sayin

Bruh.....I hope you have another venue for selling. You will never sell a single upper on the ODT. Bet. LOL!

 

[Kahrnut]

 

[Fallout Scavenger 2277]

I will sell on multiple sites. Just trying to spread the word.

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

If the uppers will come in a nice metal case, custom paint job, maybe shaped like a large Altoid tin, I’m in

 

[BHPSteel]

One of the challenges you'll experience is that - for a start - there are a couple of different kinds of AR purchasers.

* Some want a no-nonsense, pick it up and fire it solution - an off-the-shelf solution with very little scope for customization [this is me]

* Some like the idea of speccing it and building it themselves, because they can - the fisher-technik solution

* Some want to put together elements of the gun, but recognize that things like getting all the tolerances right can be a challenge and will be happy to leave that to a professional

Many - not all - of the people here fall into one of those three categories. Your market is primarily for the third group. The fact that they understand the complexities and nuances of putting together a custom build - will have very definite ideas about what they think is acceptable in a complete upper - and this means that you'll either have to have lots of configurations that you're prepared to build, or you'll have to be prepared to turn business down. Getting that balance right in a competitive market can be really difficult.

Will you build a 300BLK upper with a 10in Noveske barrel with a pinned Dead Air flash hider, and some particularly obscure adjustable gas block with a keymod handguard? Will you hold that configuration in your pre-built inventory (because that will get expensive very fast), might you hold those as parts in your inventory (which can still get quite expensive, very fast) or will you build it to order, sourcing the parts when you need them? (that's what I wanted, and got in my first AR [wish I hadn't gone with that gas block])

The chances are that at least to begin with, you'll be buying all the parts you need for a build at close to the price that the members here do, so everyone knows how much money you're adding to the cost for your services. Now, that's OK - nobody expects you to work for free - but they will demand that you're competitively priced - and AR construction is largely a commodity market now. Your labor just isn't that valuable.

These are issues you'll have confront before you start your first build.

 

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One of the challenges you'll experience is that - for a start - there are a couple of different kinds of AR purchasers.

* Some want a no-nonsense, pick it up and fire it solution - an off-the-shelf solution

* Some like the idea of speccing it and building it themselves, because they can - the fisher-technik solution

* Some want to put together elements of the gun, but recognize that things like getting all the tolerances right can be a challenge and will be happy to leave that to a professional

Many - not all - of the people here fall into one of those three categories. Your market is primarily for the third group. The fact that they understand the complexities and nuances of putting together a custom build - will have very definite ideas about what they think is acceptable in a complete upper - and this means that you'll either have to have lots of configurations that you're prepared to build, or you'll have to be prepared to turn business down. Getting that balance right in a competitive market can be really difficult.

Will you build a 300BLK upper with a 10in Noveske barrel with a pinned Dead Air flash hider, and some particularly obscure adjustable gas block with a keymod handguard? Will you hold that configuration in your pre-built inventory (because that will get expensive very fast), might you hold those as parts in your inventory (which can still get quite expensive, very fast) or will you build it to order, sourcing the parts when you need them?

The chances are that at least to begin with, you'll be buying all the parts you need for a build at close to the price that the members here do, so everyone knows how much money you're adding to the cost for your services. Now, that's OK - nobody expects you to work for free - but they will demand that you're competitively priced - and AR construction is largely a commodity market now. Your labor just isn't that valuable.

These are issues you'll have confront before you start your first build.

exactly. I have a Geissele reaction rod, a torque wrench and a set of drift punches...so does cmshoot . who you gonna get to build your rifle?

 

[savannahboy]

Is it Groundhog Day again already?

 

[joel2000]

All right gd it… you ain’t getting me twice. I ain’t sub’n and reading 1k posts just to keep up. S**t, I got better things to do..like milking my goats and peeding my figs and stuff like that.