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Originally Posted by LUTNIT
@macgyver
its rare for a challenge kit to work right? Well then I guess the 3 I built don't count, and the countless others I know of who built kits and have had zero problems (other than rain.)
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There's lot of kits out west, and a great many have suffered failures, for a nuimber of reasons. They outnumber factory assembled probably 3 or 4 to 1, and it's rare that I've come across the factory assembled ones that have failed. If you saw the numbers of PMs I've gotten from guys looking to fix issues with the kits, well, you'd understand why I have recommended for the last year to not buy them. Just on PTWs alones, I'll bet over 1,000 in the past year, but probably more than that. The kits were so bad, that many retailers in the U.S. and Europe refused to sell them. Then, the PTW became popular, and kits were all that was available.
Like I've said before, it's not all the parts quality (which does seem to vary), but also the skill of the assembler. But there's a reason the kit is less money than the assembled gun, and it only isn't in labour, especially where Gen 3 kits are concerned.