Got a lathe? Do you do your own programming? If so, the world is your oyster. Some of the best gun designers in the last 70 years were machinists. Most of them, actually.
A little correction on how a Neilsen Device works. The suppressor does not move forward. The suppressor actually stays where it is in space and the barrel is yanked backwards out of the can to allow the gun to cycle. The spring then pulls the can back into "battery" on the barrel. There is high speed video out there that shows the can doesn't move at all and it is the barrel that moves out of the can.
Correct. The proper term is an Inertial Decoupler. The Nielsen device attempts to cancels the mass of the silencer from the barrel to allow normal operation.
yep i also recently bought my first suppressors from them and was very impressed with how much time they were willing to spend on the dumb questions of some random idiot like me.
@@Soff1859 Exactly the same experience about them ,they took time to answer and research things,quickly and proficiently,unlike a company north of switzerland with 2 letters...
I have PRINT-X Inconel suppressors in 5.56 and 7.62 and their U.S. customer services is absolutely fantastic They helped me find the correct adapters for the existing muzzle devices I have so that each can fit basically any platform that has a quick detach system. It was a great experience.
Bundeswehr: "Nice supressor, Eidgenossen. We really like it, we just need a tiny adjustment to make it perfect!" B&T: "Ok, sure. What do you need?" Bundeswehr: "Ok, listen carefully. We want the exact same can, just more complex!" B&T: "Our thoughts exactly, lets think up and overly complicated process to decide on the right improvement, shall we?" Bundeswehr: "God, I love you guys!" Edit: Representatives from B&T and the Bundeswehr are seen dancing off into the sunset, hand in hand
Do you mean the exhaust mufflers, or the cannon suppressors? AFAIK the cannon suppressors don't really attach to the tank, they're independent structures that the barrels are put into for less noisy firing, so perhaps not really "add-on"?
@@jubuttibThe Germans use them for live fire exercises - the tanks drive to each of the firing points and snug in… (yes they are big). Silencers are also mandatory in some locations for all firearms (due to noise pollution control reasons)).
@@jubuttib And they aren't really even suppressors, there are no baffles, they more direct the sound away from people than they actually suppress anything.
My 5.55 B&T SRBS is the most I've ever been impressed by a suppressor. The performance on a short AR is wild, and I don't get any gas blockback on a 11.5 FSB Colt carbine.
@@LowSpeedHighDrag45the SRBS 5.56 C Ti is my first can and while I don’t have a ton to compare to, it doesn’t seem gassy on an 11.5 with fsp. Might be my lack of reference but I had always read about the gas coming back and I just shoot the gun the same as always, just softer and much quieter
Ian talks with such fluency on engineering matters I'm fairly sure he has a background in machining or something similar. For me this is an Interest Multiplier beyond the substantial historical content of FW shows. Always a delight!
@@LordSluggoyou are correct. Also his father was an avid firearms collector and published at least one book on Japanese firearms so Ian basically grew around someone doing what he does now.
Crazy the like VP of something for B&T USA lives right around me. And they shoot on our range. They are wonderful ppl. And we currently showcase their apc9 and mp9 with the mp9 suppressor in our machine gun experience. We also stock most of their suppressors and try to stock their firearms.
All the 5.56 Sig rifles of the 90s are extremely quality. The 550, 552, and 556 are some of the best rifles ever made. If Eastern Europe had the Valmet rifles as peak quality, then Western Europe had these Sig rifles.
Sig 550 is great as a assault rifle in open grounds but in cqb its just too long.. I know there is a sig 553 but only special ops groups have them. The standard infantry man doesn't have that luxury That being said in all my military time i have never seen a malfunction even with very dirty rifles and the accuracy is supreme for a standard military rifle
There’s one thing I’ve learned after owning close to 10 suppressors from over the years from 22 to 50 BMG by different manufacturers. The tolerances and technology varies drastically from one company to another and so does the decibel reduction. There are literally multiple dozens of companies making them now and just because you can make great flashlights doesn’t mean you can make great suppressors.
I work in the steel industry and it's interesting to see how powder metals are THRIVING in the supressor market. This is the second major supressor manufacturer I've seen that is using additive manufacturing to get some otherwise impossible baffle structures.
Ian, recently you did a piece on the Ruger P85, but didn't get much into the pioneering work Ruger did to both "rediscover" the lost wax casting method and bring it into the modern world. Te reason I bring this up is to wonder if B&T couldn't have used a process like that for those "stars"- additive machine work will still be among the most expensive ways to a part for the foreseeable future, and Ruger's hi pressure system could make many hundreds of these a day from just one line. Thanks for doing what you do!
Thousands of questions I had regarding B&T supressors were finally answered! I bought a Rotex X recently, but never got to know, apart from weight difference, how it compared to Rotex V
I have a licensed copy of the Impuls 2A that I picked up in 2006. It has a carbon fiber outer tube that sheds heat like crazy. After 3 mag dumps out of my USP 45 Tactical, you can still touch the carbon fiber part. Touch the rear at the Neilson device, and you'll get blisters.
At Ian: if you are still in Switzerland, please try the Burgdorfer Beer. By the way, in Solothurn there is a lovely weapons museum. Thanks for presentation for the noise suppression mechanisms that can make the weapon engagement less noise and more humanitarian.💀
I really wish B&T would do an actual direct semi-auto clone of the TMP, at least as a small batch run. Speaking of the TMP, I wonder if this means we can look forward to a video on one, seeing as how any video on them basically doesn't exist except for like one short shooting video.
The "star" baffle was ripped off from KAC. It was originally developed by Doug Olson, the lead engineer at KAC for the Offensive Handgun Project that produced the HK MK23 and its KAC silencer. If you don't believe me, there is an image available on the internet showing about a dozen suppressor X-Rays. Compare the B&T to the various KAC cans. The baffles are nearly identical.
Time frame is very similar. B&T was founded in 1991. Based on this, they were producing suppressors for friends well before founding. MK23 was designed in 1991 as well. So who can say who copied who, if at all.
Amazing technical subtlety applied to a niche product. The strange thing is the various legal views of the same thing in different places. In some they are dangerous tools for crime and in others they are mandatory environmental aids.
As a side note on the MP9/TP9 section, my can is not a reduced backpressure version. I think there was some early one that made there were onto the market prior to the reduced back pressure version.
Many people don't realise military firearms have to go bang everytime. So gas pressure bullet velocity and some other factors play important roles in gun and suppressor designs. 3D printing is allowing many new designs that were not possible with traditional manufacturing to become commonplace. less material wastage and more complex internal one piece designs have become possible in many components. Venting some of the gas out the front of the suppressor is a good idea depending on the application. Ian has done another excellent video with B&T a market leader in firearms and component design. Very interesting. 😎🇦🇺👍
Thanks for the video! I'm still waiting for the made in Texas suppressors case to make it thru the courts! There really is no need for the unconstitutional infringements of the NFA and GCA and Hughes amendment!
3:20 why arent shooting tunnels a good long term plan? i always thought it was a good idea, since you dont need extra attachements for your guns to carry around and those tunnels can be used with different weapons. Arent they effective?
I _fucking love_ the Steyr TMP/B&T MP/TP9. Such a cool little PDW, and a design that lends itself very well to the interesting "cheek pistol" concept. =)
Hi Ian, loved the video. I live in Spain on the nice sunny Med coast (although today is raining). Got some friends that would be interested in your channel, but unfortunately don't speak English. Any possibility in getting subtitles in Spanish. My best regards.
Has there ever been a “suppressor-operated” firearm? Something I’ve been musing about, problem looking for a solution style. So far I’m thinking of using the dropping pressure inside the suppressor to release the operating system, maybe run it slower so it’s quieter. Something for DMR or similar.
You know, somebody pointed out that most noisy things require mufflers to be legal. But if you want to put a muffler on a gun, it suddenly becomes a felony if you don't go through a complicated process designed to deter the exercise of our rights.
Considering that the scumbag Kevin Brittingham is involved, if it does come out, it'll have some name that's cringy, erotic, after a small animal, or some combination of the three, and it'll be overpriced and overhyped, and if it never ships, CS will tell you to "stfu".
If I had a nickel for every time Q necked up a cartridge in such a way that it could chamber and fire in guns in the smaller parent cartridge, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
@@willblack7353 You know that Q did not invent the 300 Whisper. They simply got it SAAMI spec'd. That cartridge existed for 25 years before Q came along.
Given all the costs of ownership, how many rounds can you expect to get through a 3d printed can? It seems once its done its done and you need to print a new expensive part. As compared to something with internal baffles which can be replaced? Not only is this just raw costs but we have other ownership costs, eg tax stamps that need to be considered as well. I can see someone choosing to own a can that has the body as a serialized part just because they dont want to pay more or wait longer for service.
Oh man! I wonder if the Print-X was made with laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) or binder jetting? I'd love to know what metal AM machines B&T is using for this!
You would think making the baffles with MIM would be a lot more cost effective than metal 3D printing them. Because of less cycle time, and less metal powder used (because you can still make the tube without powder metallurgy when you make the baffles with MIM)
Were you hiding something while holding the Rolex-V cutaway? Your hand placement looked a bit forced- like you had a much more significant hold on the item than necessary to show it to the camera...
Small world. My PhD was on microtubular HT-SOFCs. I'm no longer in that world (became disillusioned and downright disgusted with British academia), but I'd love to read your work. Was the SS as a substrate then coated (PVD/PLD/CVD?) with anode and cathode materials? Cheers!
Karl reeeally is a gun guy, he loves making modern iterations of things like the Sites Spectre, Welrod Mk II, and such. Also it's very funny to have a Bushmaster Arm Pistol (Rotex III demo at 11:46) for displaying a suppressor, but that's exactly what a gun guy would do.
I’ve just got my new rifle (A.I. AT-XC Pro) and opted for the B&T muzzle brake and moderator instead of the A.I. one……no idea if it’s “better” than OE, I just thought it looked cooler. I still find it crazy (but welcome) given our restrictive firearm legislation, that moderators are so actively encouraged by the U.K. licensing but still require approval. Really hope the proposed change to the legislation goes through and they completely deregulated them (as has been discussed in a public consultation).
Its my opinion that ( if ) when the Feds in the U.S. ever remove suppressors from the NFA registry, the prices will crash on all of them due to competition and fee market trade. They remain such a niche item that is really just a muffler.
Ian: "this seems more complicated than nessicary..."
Swiss engineers: "Thank you."
Why have 10 simple parts doing 1 job each when you can have one horrifyingly complex part doing 10 jobs?
😅
*shakes head in german engineering*
way too underengineered!
and 11x overpreised to it
necessary
As a machinist with not much to do at work recently, my ears perked up immediately
Time to file a form 1 if you're in the us
Get the Okuma spinning?
Christian Bale is in chat?? Whoa!
Got a lathe? Do you do your own programming? If so, the world is your oyster. Some of the best gun designers in the last 70 years were machinists. Most of them, actually.
When a machinist says, "I'm bored", I ask, "got a shed?" 😏
In the 2016 film "War Dogs" the arms dealer played by Bradley Cooper was modeled after Heinrich Thomet ( the T in B&T).
Indeed, but it's good to know he's no longer part of B&T
There's a reason B&T doesn't associate with him anymore
@@bingus-vx2ncwhy?
arms smuggling to avoid sanctions in Africa @@uncleleeno9360
How did you hear that?
I cannot begin to state how excited I am about the B&T TP9/MP9 video.
Having watched your gun rants, I knew the likelihood of you not watching Ian was near zero. 😄
"You see Urs, if the suppressor is so long you can reach over the border and point blank someone in Paris, no one will ever invade."
32oz = c:a 900g
23.7oz = c:a 650g
21.5oz = c:a 600g
14oz = c:a 400g
10oz = c:a 280g
Thanks for the unit conversion! 😂
@@bravo_cj You're welcome! 😸
www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metric-si/us-metrication
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sickening.
Thank you very much
This is by far the most comprehensive insight in B&T suppressor models and their differences & evolutions.
Outstanding content, as per usual ! Love it
A little correction on how a Neilsen Device works. The suppressor does not move forward. The suppressor actually stays where it is in space and the barrel is yanked backwards out of the can to allow the gun to cycle. The spring then pulls the can back into "battery" on the barrel. There is high speed video out there that shows the can doesn't move at all and it is the barrel that moves out of the can.
Correct. The proper term is an Inertial Decoupler. The Nielsen device attempts to cancels the mass of the silencer from the barrel to allow normal operation.
@@Argentum7756 I love TH-cam comments for this exact reason. Always a few guys dropping knowledge.
Holy crap that suppressor turns that sig550 into a musket
I am sure that they are capable to produce it in the traditional rainbow colors for peace distribution.
It also has a sword bayonet lug...😊
Or a *mousqueton*
Just as the founding fathers intended!
Which is longer, the barrel or the suppressor?
Ordering stuff from B&T and interaction with their customer service was very nice (can't vouch for the US, but here in Switzerland)
yep i also recently bought my first suppressors from them and was very impressed with how much time they were willing to spend on the dumb questions of some random idiot like me.
@@Soff1859 Exactly the same experience about them ,they took time to answer and research things,quickly and proficiently,unlike a company north of switzerland with 2 letters...
I have PRINT-X Inconel suppressors in 5.56 and 7.62 and their U.S. customer services is absolutely fantastic They helped me find the correct adapters for the existing muzzle devices I have so that each can fit basically any platform that has a quick detach system. It was a great experience.
This might be the best video Ian has ever released
Bundeswehr: "Nice supressor, Eidgenossen. We really like it, we just need a tiny adjustment to make it perfect!"
B&T: "Ok, sure. What do you need?"
Bundeswehr: "Ok, listen carefully. We want the exact same can, just more complex!"
B&T: "Our thoughts exactly, lets think up and overly complicated process to decide on the right improvement, shall we?"
Bundeswehr: "God, I love you guys!"
Edit: Representatives from B&T and the Bundeswehr are seen dancing off into the sunset, hand in hand
Can't wait for the MP-9 evolution video.
fun fact about suppressor for use near population: the Swiss also have add-on mufflers for their Leo2 tanks
Do they also have glass packs?
Do you mean the exhaust mufflers, or the cannon suppressors? AFAIK the cannon suppressors don't really attach to the tank, they're independent structures that the barrels are put into for less noisy firing, so perhaps not really "add-on"?
@@jubuttibThe Germans use them for live fire exercises - the tanks drive to each of the firing points and snug in… (yes they are big).
Silencers are also mandatory in some locations for all firearms (due to noise pollution control reasons)).
@@jubuttib And they aren't really even suppressors, there are no baffles, they more direct the sound away from people than they actually suppress anything.
My 5.55 B&T SRBS is the most I've ever been impressed by a suppressor. The performance on a short AR is wild, and I don't get any gas blockback on a 11.5 FSB Colt carbine.
You running the full size or compact? I just picked up both and I'm super excited to get some rounds down range here soon
@@LowSpeedHighDrag45the SRBS only comes in full size for now.
@@FlayvorOfEvil no sir, the compact is available now, I literally just picked it up along with the full size from silencer shop
@@LowSpeedHighDrag45the SRBS 5.56 C Ti is my first can and while I don’t have a ton to compare to, it doesn’t seem gassy on an 11.5 with fsp. Might be my lack of reference but I had always read about the gas coming back and I just shoot the gun the same as always, just softer and much quieter
@@Dapmasters nice man, I'll have to pick up a TI eventually as I went Inconel for both of my recent ones
Ian talks with such fluency on engineering matters I'm fairly sure he has a background in machining or something similar.
For me this is an Interest Multiplier beyond the substantial historical content of FW shows. Always a delight!
He has an engineering degree in aeronautics and has a machining background in badly riveting and welding a romaninan AK parts kit
He has a bachelor's in MET and worked in manufacturing before he went full-time TH-cam
@@LordSluggoyou are correct. Also his father was an avid firearms collector and published at least one book on Japanese firearms so Ian basically grew around someone doing what he does now.
I spent 2 years in Aero & Astro then transferred to the School of Technology and got an AS in MET.
@@ForgottenWeapons It shows, great descriptions of mechanisms and modes of construction. Always appreciated here in UK. 👍🏼
I just recently picked up the SRBS from silencer shop and man was I impressed that is my go-to-556 can
You get the full size or compact?
Crazy the like VP of something for B&T USA lives right around me. And they shoot on our range. They are wonderful ppl. And we currently showcase their apc9 and mp9 with the mp9 suppressor in our machine gun experience. We also stock most of their suppressors and try to stock their firearms.
Got couple B&T suppressors and can say that they are top quality and work perfectly. They are not cheap but work very well. 🇫🇮🇨🇭
I love my TP9 and its suppressor. One of the best shooting little sub style guns I’ve ever shot.
Sig 550 is very underrated.
All the 5.56 Sig rifles of the 90s are extremely quality. The 550, 552, and 556 are some of the best rifles ever made. If Eastern Europe had the Valmet rifles as peak quality, then Western Europe had these Sig rifles.
@@bebop_557 not sure if the finns appreciate being labeled eastern european lol. But as a swiss i am going to happily take the compliment.
@@Soff1859 I am geographically prejudiced to call them Eastern Europeans. I am personally prejudiced to call them alcoholic metalheads.
Finns are Eastern Europeans, it's just a fact.
Sig 550 is great as a assault rifle in open grounds but in cqb its just too long.. I know there is a sig 553 but only special ops groups have them. The standard infantry man doesn't have that luxury
That being said in all my military time i have never seen a malfunction even with very dirty rifles and the accuracy is supreme for a standard military rifle
There’s one thing I’ve learned after owning close to 10 suppressors from over the years from 22 to 50 BMG by different manufacturers. The tolerances and technology varies drastically from one company to another and so does the decibel reduction. There are literally multiple dozens of companies making them now and just because you can make great flashlights doesn’t mean you can make great suppressors.
Shots fired
One of very rare moments when I thought, being born later would have been nice!
Superb showcase of these suppressors!
I work in the steel industry and it's interesting to see how powder metals are THRIVING in the supressor market. This is the second major supressor manufacturer I've seen that is using additive manufacturing to get some otherwise impossible baffle structures.
Nice cans!
Ian, recently you did a piece on the Ruger P85, but didn't get much into the pioneering work Ruger did to both "rediscover" the lost wax casting method and bring it into the modern world. Te reason I bring this up is to wonder if B&T couldn't have used a process like that for those "stars"- additive machine work will still be among the most expensive ways to a part for the foreseeable future, and Ruger's hi pressure system could make many hundreds of these a day from just one line. Thanks for doing what you do!
rotex iii and rotex v with the nato mount shown in the video is available in the US
If you call b&t they will literally build you any can they have ever sold
I love my Rotex-X A2, awesome vid as always.
I love how all the guntubers go on the B&T hajj.
Can't wait for the B&T jihad.
@@paweek5540 We don’t talk about that.
Thousands of questions I had regarding B&T supressors were finally answered! I bought a Rotex X recently, but never got to know, apart from weight difference, how it compared to Rotex V
Just picked up the SRBS Compact and full size yesterday. Pretty excited to get some rounds down range
How did you like the full size? I been waiting over 4 months for the 762 version
@cameronmills3414 I love it, currently on my 10.3 and it absolutely fucks lol
When is Vickers Guide Vol. 2 coming out? The one on Sig Sauer rifles?
I don't know, but it is coming at some point.
@@ForgottenWeapons appreciate the reply! Thanks!
Been waiting for a video just like this for a while!
Back in around 2003 , I fired the old Steyr version with a fixed butt stock , about 1/2 the weight of the MP5K , in Finland .
Love the videos on attachments/furniture/scopes. Keep up the good work
the best explanation of their lineup yet. good job with this.
Cool video! Thanks for explaining this. It’s hard to understand their lineup both because of how vast it is and because of the naming schemes.
I have a licensed copy of the Impuls 2A that I picked up in 2006. It has a carbon fiber outer tube that sheds heat like crazy. After 3 mag dumps out of my USP 45 Tactical, you can still touch the carbon fiber part. Touch the rear at the Neilson device, and you'll get blisters.
The can on that Sig looks like it makes negative sound. lol That thing is massive.
Great information awesome video bro keep it up
You have the best job ever. Keep up the great work! 👍
At Ian: if you are still in Switzerland, please try the Burgdorfer Beer. By the way, in Solothurn there is a lovely weapons museum. Thanks for presentation for the noise suppression mechanisms that can make the weapon engagement less noise and more humanitarian.💀
I really wish B&T would do an actual direct semi-auto clone of the TMP, at least as a small batch run.
Speaking of the TMP, I wonder if this means we can look forward to a video on one, seeing as how any video on them basically doesn't exist except for like one short shooting video.
The "star" baffle was ripped off from KAC. It was originally developed by Doug Olson, the lead engineer at KAC for the Offensive Handgun Project that produced the HK MK23 and its KAC silencer.
If you don't believe me, there is an image available on the internet showing about a dozen suppressor X-Rays. Compare the B&T to the various KAC cans. The baffles are nearly identical.
Time frame is very similar. B&T was founded in 1991. Based on this, they were producing suppressors for friends well before founding. MK23 was designed in 1991 as well. So who can say who copied who, if at all.
Trey Knight mentions that during his interview of Doug Olson on the KAC channel.
@@solomontorluemke7702 I've met Doug O a few times. He's an interesting character and super smart.
That is one looooooong toob.
It would've made sense for the Professor's rifle in _The Bourne Identity_ 👍🏻
Doubles as a melee weapon.
@@mrkeoghashamed to say I can’t recognise who the professor was?
Put some barbed wire over it and it becomes a trench club
@@brucebaxter6923Clive Owen's character. The assassin in the field at the country house trying to snipe Bourne.
I’m been waiting for the tp9 walk through for 6 years…….and now we are apparently close to this😊
So did we...
Amazing technical subtlety applied to a niche product.
The strange thing is the various legal views of the same thing in different places. In some they are dangerous tools for crime and in others they are mandatory environmental aids.
As a side note on the MP9/TP9 section, my can is not a reduced backpressure version. I think there was some early one that made there were onto the market prior to the reduced back pressure version.
I've got all 3, in the US the Non RBS variant was around until about 2019
Many people don't realise military firearms have to go bang everytime.
So gas pressure bullet velocity and some other factors play important roles in gun and suppressor designs.
3D printing is allowing many new designs that were not possible with traditional manufacturing to become commonplace. less material wastage and more complex internal one piece designs have become possible in many components.
Venting some of the gas out the front of the suppressor is a good idea depending on the application.
Ian has done another excellent video with B&T a market leader in firearms and component design.
Very interesting.
😎🇦🇺👍
That star baffle looks eerily similar to the KAC baffle design before they went 3D printed. Does anyone know which design came out first?
A surface level gloss says that KAC may have licensed them from b&t
B&T copied the baffle from KAC.
Thanks for the video! I'm still waiting for the made in Texas suppressors case to make it thru the courts! There really is no need for the unconstitutional infringements of the NFA and GCA and Hughes amendment!
3:20 why arent shooting tunnels a good long term plan? i always thought it was a good idea, since you dont need extra attachements for your guns to carry around and those tunnels can be used with different weapons. Arent they effective?
Love the tp9. Love the supressor.
B&T cans frequently seem to be platform specific, which is kind of interesting
Would you like some rifle to go with your suppressor, sir?
As an Okuma enjoyer I liked this video.
I _fucking love_ the Steyr TMP/B&T MP/TP9. Such a cool little PDW, and a design that lends itself very well to the interesting "cheek pistol" concept. =)
Hi Ian, loved the video. I live in Spain on the nice sunny Med coast (although today is raining). Got some friends that would be interested in your channel, but unfortunately don't speak English. Any possibility in getting subtitles in Spanish. My best regards.
Hey, that's the one on Sam Fisher's Five-seveN pistol, neat
Love my B&T .22 can!
ArmsUnlimitted has B&T’s for next to nothing all the time! I bought several contract overrun .556 cans with the A2 mount for $350 each!
Ask B&T for some cutaway print x so we can see the inside. You should do more suppressor videos.
Good watch ty for sharing.
This is how you do a corporate gig well. Classy stuff.
In what year will every AR come with a standard suppressor?
B&t needs to update their website a little bit. Offer a little bit more
"3D-Printed Titanium".
We're living in a sci-fi story.
is this reduced back pressure system similar to tank's bore evacuator? how does it work exactly
Hopefully the print XH comes out soon.
My Ian, what a big gun you have 😏
Has there ever been a “suppressor-operated” firearm? Something I’ve been musing about, problem looking for a solution style. So far I’m thinking of using the dropping pressure inside the suppressor to release the operating system, maybe run it slower so it’s quieter. Something for DMR or similar.
Thanks I absolutely love the silencer content
You know, somebody pointed out that most noisy things require mufflers to be legal. But if you want to put a muffler on a gun, it suddenly becomes a felony if you don't go through a complicated process designed to deter the exercise of our rights.
very very interesting...
Hey Ian, i remember you had a book a while ago about supressors. Is it in print or is it a waiting project?
Considering that the scumbag Kevin Brittingham is involved, if it does come out, it'll have some name that's cringy, erotic, after a small animal, or some combination of the three, and it'll be overpriced and overhyped, and if it never ships, CS will tell you to "stfu".
It is still a project in progress.
TBF though, Q is a equal opportunity employer, judging by their weld quality it's clear that they hire the blind. Good on them.
If I had a nickel for every time Q necked up a cartridge in such a way that it could chamber and fire in guns in the smaller parent cartridge, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
@@willblack7353 You know that Q did not invent the 300 Whisper. They simply got it SAAMI spec'd. That cartridge existed for 25 years before Q came along.
Price of 7 guns for metal tube?
Super interesting.
Given all the costs of ownership, how many rounds can you expect to get through a 3d printed can? It seems once its done its done and you need to print a new expensive part. As compared to something with internal baffles which can be replaced? Not only is this just raw costs but we have other ownership costs, eg tax stamps that need to be considered as well. I can see someone choosing to own a can that has the body as a serialized part just because they dont want to pay more or wait longer for service.
Like a kid in a toy shop is Ian! Lucky man.
Machining Inconel is still a royal pain, not sure if it's easier to machine than titanium.
Oh man! I wonder if the Print-X was made with laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) or binder jetting? I'd love to know what metal AM machines B&T is using for this!
It is LBPF.
You would think making the baffles with MIM would be a lot more cost effective than metal 3D printing them. Because of less cycle time, and less metal powder used (because you can still make the tube without powder metallurgy when you make the baffles with MIM)
Were you hiding something while holding the Rolex-V cutaway? Your hand placement looked a bit forced- like you had a much more significant hold on the item than necessary to show it to the camera...
I think this is just ian showing replicas of his call of duty loadouts.
Man has taste.
As a PhD student, I published several articles about 3D printed stainless steel micro fuel cells. They produced surprisingly high current densities.
Small world. My PhD was on microtubular HT-SOFCs. I'm no longer in that world (became disillusioned and downright disgusted with British academia), but I'd love to read your work. Was the SS as a substrate then coated (PVD/PLD/CVD?) with anode and cathode materials? Cheers!
How are the printed cans cleaned? Solvent/agitation only?
You really don't need to do much, if you want run them through an ultrasonic
Karl reeeally is a gun guy, he loves making modern iterations of things like the Sites Spectre, Welrod Mk II, and such. Also it's very funny to have a Bushmaster Arm Pistol (Rotex III demo at 11:46) for displaying a suppressor, but that's exactly what a gun guy would do.
That background wall is sick.
ok?
I'm impressed there's a company that big that does something for the client instead of profits, most would force you to use their own hubs
This is baffling!
😂
[rolls eyes]
I’ve just got my new rifle (A.I. AT-XC Pro) and opted for the B&T muzzle brake and moderator instead of the A.I. one……no idea if it’s “better” than OE, I just thought it looked cooler.
I still find it crazy (but welcome) given our restrictive firearm legislation, that moderators are so actively encouraged by the U.K. licensing but still require approval. Really hope the proposed change to the legislation goes through and they completely deregulated them (as has been discussed in a public consultation).
I think Silencerco tried to register the word "Silencer" at one point?
Next: AU cans, please. :)
It's suppose to be called a "suppressor"; technically, you can still hear it when it fires.
Nice SGI-5k there.
Where can I get B&T replacement parts? (USA)
This was a great advertisement.
Its my opinion that ( if ) when the Feds in the U.S. ever remove suppressors from the NFA registry, the prices will crash on all of them due to competition and fee market trade. They remain such a niche item that is really just a muffler.
22:03 you can’t tell but this was Ian started to get excited about the future of 3d printed suppressors as a whole spectrum 🤔 💭
Sig one the favorite weapon of the guys from Freedom