Forward Controls SBCG

**Duffy** · 9 November 2017, 08:00

S stands for several things:
Secure Staking
Slick Side

And it is slippery due to its coating

I confirmed with Chris Bartocci that the carrier's recessed area (where the gas vent holes are) is only there to accommodate the ejection port cover. It wasn't meant to be a forward assist.

So happens it can be used in the manner, so we placed useful serrations there to facilitate its dual purpose.

**Duffy** · 20 January 2018, 11:13

We're making some changes to the serrations. The NiB EXO carrier is slick to the point of diminishing the current serrations' effectiveness. We're making the serrations deeper and wider, and fewer in number.

Pic of SBCG in testing. I was pleasantly surprised at how clean the carrier came out after a few mags that would have made my Young Manufacturing chrome carrier smudgy and black. Note the SBCG here is a prototype, it has not been staked, and the bolt is an LMT enhanced bolt, not what SBCG will be shipped with.

**fledge** · 20 January 2018, 12:48

Looking forward to this.

**UWone77** · 20 January 2018, 12:56

Originally Posted by Duffy

We can work with Rainier Arms, assuming they're interested. Mega has been bought out by Zev, I don't know if Jason Curns is still there. I think RA may be more agreeable to it, but things are slow, I don't know if they'd want to take on something like this.

I just heard Jason Curns is now at Grey Ghost Precision.

Originally Posted by Duffy

S stands for several things:
Secure Staking
Slick Side

And it is slippery due to its coating

I confirmed with Chris Bartocci that the carrier's recessed area (where the gas vent holes are) is only there to accommodate the ejection port cover. It wasn't meant to be a forward assist.

So happens it can be used in the manner, so we placed useful serrations there to facilitate its dual purpose.

So did I miss the info about the bolt? Or is it earlier in this thread?

**Duffy** · 20 January 2018, 13:00

Yep got an email about Jason's move to Grey Ghost.

The info on bolt was posted somewhere, here it is:

Carpenter 158 Steel

Shot Peened, Hard Turned / Ground NiB coated UCT EXO

Extractor 4340 Steel-Mil-Spec Spring & O-Ring combination

Magnetic Particle Inspected, and HPT tested

I thought about offering other bolts, but at the moment can't find a reason to

**UWone77** · 20 January 2018, 13:41

Originally Posted by Duffy

Yep got an email about Jason's move to Grey Ghost.

The info on bolt was posted somewhere, here it is:

Carpenter 158 Steel

Shot Peened, Hard Turned / Ground NiB coated UCT EXO

Extractor 4340 Steel-Mil-Spec Spring & O-Ring combination

Magnetic Particle Inspected, and HPT tested

I thought about offering other bolts, but at the moment can't find a reason to

Seems like it's been hard to just find bolts lately by themselves. I guess it's because the $99 BCG is the norm, so no reason to offer $50-$70 bolts by themselves.

Great specs Roger. I'm sure it'll live up to the FCD name.

**Aragorn** · 20 January 2018, 17:38

I have a no FA upper that's going to need one of these...

**Aragorn** · 22 February 2018, 22:09

So where's this at right now? Any ETA?

**Duffy** · 23 February 2018, 10:51

ETA March, but I'd add couple of weeks to that, they need to be shipped to Sionics to have OCKS installed and staked by Ned's industrial strength staking machine

**Stone** · 23 February 2018, 13:19

You mean your not going to personally hand stake those one at a time? You could put a Hershey's kiss and a card in the box that says " Hand staked by yours truly"

**Duffy** · 24 February 2018, 04:44

Haha I would if I could do as good a job at it as Ned's staking machine that stakes 30 of them in a minute

**Duffy** · 20 April 2018, 16:13

Pre-production SBCGs are here. The initial small volume run was created to gauge interest in a BCG with our design input on utility and reliability, and we had greatly underestimated it.

Pre-production SBCGs use standard gas key screws, not OCKS, but other features have been incorporated into them. SBCG will be seeing continued development to include more bolt and coating options and features.

We're not making a huge deal of the pre-production SBCGs, because there's only a handful left of the initial batch, we sold 90% of them within the first 5 hours

http://www.forwardcontrolsdesign.com...ion_p_118.html

**fledge** · 28 April 2018, 08:50

**UWone77** · 28 April 2018, 09:03

Originally Posted by fledge

Man that was fast! you get all the new stuff fledge!

**fledge** · 28 April 2018, 10:54

Originally Posted by UWone77

Man that was fast! you get all the new stuff fledge!

Roger doesn’t mess around when it comes to fast shipping. I think he wears a cape.

The SBCG is superb. And the blem price couldn’t be beat. Looking forward to the final version.

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