[Cancelled] Aluminium cases are NOT being made!

[slaeshjag]

I had a pandora crack while sitting on a shelf. I doubt it has much to do at all with how you handle it

 

[moxie]

But it was a very vicious shelf! Had previously attacked and killed a vase, two goldfish and a full set of Knuths "Art of Computer Programming"!

Actually, Burt Bacharach even wrote a song about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqUnznxa29g

Hm. Perhaps I ought to go have lunch now? That might help my mental state

 

[fusion_power]

Well, there are hundreds of different plastics available. Some softer, some more brittle.

And the cheapest ones are very brittle, as they're mixtures of different kinds of plastic (probably whatever is left), they break easily.

Exactly. There is a wide spread of different plastic materials and the one used for the Pandora was very weak and brittle. Today, even guns can have an huge ammount of plastic parts, we had the (back then) new G36 in our Army time for a short while at the end and this thing was basicly almost entirely plastic in the case parts. Very hard, very durable stuff, surely polymer/fibre enhanced. Even the transparent Magazines were plastic. Actualy impressive if you know the forces that can happen within a real rifle.

 

[ekianjo]

Actualy impressive if you know the forces that can happen within a real rifle.

"Plastics" does not mean weak at all. There are several polymers that have better properties than metal in specific areas (tensile strength, bulk strength, see GRP for example) and they are used even in stuff like planes where metal alloys are too heavy to be used. There's a very wide range of artifical polymers and giving it a single name does not do it justice.

 

[fusion_power]

That's why I hope we get something decent for the Pyra, that also look and feels just "strong".

 

[Seamus]

I guess the Pyra will be housed in an aluminium case?

 

[ekianjo]

I guess the Pyra will be housed in an aluminium case?

Not at launch.

 

[Seamus]

Why?

 

[fusion_power]

Why?

Money!

 

[Eight Bit]

Thanks, I feel like a guinea pig now :blink:

 

[levi]

Even after an aluminium case for the Pyra is developed, it will probably only be an option on new Pyras.  An aluminium case is a lot more expensive to produce than a plastic one, so the plastic one will still be the default option to new units.

 

[WizardStan]

Thanks, I feel like a guinea pig now :blink:

"Now"? I've felt like a guinea pig the entire Pandora experience and I wouldn't trade a minute of it.

 

[ekianjo]

Why?

Because takes time, money, and we don't want to delay the Pyra for another year, thank you.

Week 12 :

Week 12

March 16, 2015

March 22, 2015

Still no news. I'll give it another 7 days to get the official pics or another "delay"

 

[thatgui]

Why?

Weight too - I am happy with a Pandora/Pyra that looks like a brick, but I do not want to carry it arround when it also has a similar weight

 

[Seamus]

This is Cracking me up!

 

[Xcl4m4t10n]

Wow...

 

[ekianjo]

Week 12 March 16, 2015 March 22, 2015

Still no news and no pictures. 

 

[fusion_power]

Maybe he still didn't solved the Riddle of Steel...uhm... Riddle of Alu?  h34r:

 

[Xcl4m4t10n]

Maybe he still didn't solved the Riddle of Steel...uhm... Riddle of Alu?  h34r:

MetaRidle

 

[N3Cr0]

Now it's the two weeks™ thing.