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Jewell triggers

Rset said:
Sure would be nice to have the original designs and access to previous records before someone was just to pick up and start with an old design with reverse engineering. Since there appears to be no information available, it certainly limits the players that might want to resurrect the brand.
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Anything, especially a piece of machinery, can be reversed engineered.

If you consider how long the Jewel trigger was on the market, you have to believe that manufacturing has progressed quite a bit in that time.

Making the trigger would be no big deal. It’s the cost of the machinery to accomplish the task that is prohibitive.

That is why that early in this thread I suggested that a major current manufacturer such as Timney or Canjar could pick up the gauntlet and produce an exact copy.
 
jackieschmidt said:
Anything, especially a piece of machinery, can be reversed engineered.

If you consider how long the Jewel trigger was on the market, you have to believe that manufacturing has progressed quite a bit in that time.

Making the trigger would be no big deal. It’s the cost of the machinery to accomplish the task that is prohibitive.

That is why that early in this thread I suggested that a major current manufacturer such as Timney or Canjar could pick up the gauntlet and produce an exact copy.
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Jackie I'm just wondering if the profit margin for something that labor intensive could be a factor. There's a lot of people who have the equipment, George Kelbly built a pretty good trigger at one time, I had a couple of them. You know Jim still has the capability to make them yet he's expanding in other areas.... I don't think there's enough profit in it to justify it..... John
 
farmerjohn said:
Jackie I'm just wondering if the profit margin for something that labor intensive could be a factor. There's a lot of people who have the equipment, George Kelbly built a pretty good trigger at one time, I had a couple of them. You know Jim still has the capability to make them yet he's expanding in other areas.... I don't think there's enough profit in it to justify it..... John
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It is a limited market, especially since there are now alternatives.
Mass production of small intricate parts is not in my realm of expertise in machine shop work, so someone like me would be starting at square one.

I would think that for any profitability, there would be very little human involvement aside from final assembly.
 
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