Im here to tell you, you dont know shit about fuck when it comes to welding. "Looks" on the exterior dont tell you much. I have seen plenty of "pretty" weld's fail for lack of fusion, lack of penetration and too much heat from running high amps that led to stress cracking. You dont get to see that until you xray and cut up samples to view under a microscope.
I have the utmost respect for state of the art engineering and an excessive emphasis on quality and QC. I’m always willing to pay for engineering and quality regardless of price. If I can’t afford it, then it’s incentive to work and save harder. Kevin: do not change a thing. Keep doing what you’re doing and continue taking your time with engineering and quality control. This customer, appreciates it.
I like how Kevin understands the place and role of cheaper companies without dogging on them for knowing their place. It’s folks who don’t know their place and imitate that gets him feisty.
Please do a “How Q” like the TV show Mega Engineering that shows how the Honey Badger is made from raw materials to your local gun store, behind the scene manufacturing process and all that. You can cover all the other products in subsequent episodes. Love you long time. Q Life.
Lol I realized now he's mass producing this content to implant that concept into the minds of consumers. It's just such a cringe bullet point to constantly lean on
Waiting on my PorQchop. I’ve had my 8.6 for 50 Days. I also have a Sugar Weasel & Honey Badger SD. Love my Q Weapons! Thanks Kevin! Would love to Take my 8.6 and go Hunt in Africa with Kevin!!!
😂 it took 2 email requests to get Q to tell me I needed a “taper adapter” to mount any suppressor or muzzle device not made by Q on my Fix barrel. (I tried to buy a Porq Chop first, but no one seems to have them in stock.) Q doesn’t sell any taper adapter and made no suggestion about where to get one. Faxon sent me one for my 8.6 BLK barrel *for free* One phone call - a human answered and solved my problem. However, that taper adapter doesn’t fit the .308 Winchester barrel *made to Q specs* by Proof Research. One phone call to them - a human answered - and they told me “we don’t make what you need but Griffins Armament might” so I go to that website. Not sure I’ve found what I need for the Fix, I call - a human answers the phone. “We make one for the Sig MCX family but not Q. However, Bauer Precision does.” So I order 1 for my Sig MCX from Griffin and one from Bauer for my Fix .308 Proof barrel. Anyone see a pattern there?
I’m in a completely different industry. But insourcing is always better than outsourcing. I used to be a system administrator at a small company which got bought out, few months later I get laid off and replaced with an outsourced company. And everyone hates the outsourced company. They wanted to save a few dollars and ended up with a worse experience.
Everytime I see a Q video is up I get all hot and bothered. Just put another 10 bucks into my Q Fix jar. It's gonna be like Christmas day when I get it.
I like that you test fire your rifles before sending them out. I had to return a pistol to a company because the frame locked up at 17 rounds. I guess they didn't test fire it or only shot 5 rounds out of it. Great rifles.
Ferrari doesn't care if you own their car. In fact they rather you didn't, it isn't for the masses. I may never own a Q product but I respect them for moving the gun industry forward.
At 2:25 that was weirdly specific but equally not specific haha. Robinson Arms, SilencerCo, Desert Tech, and Christiansen arms are all in Utah and relatively small companies haha. Something about six dudes chillin in Utah makes us want to make some guns man
No one answers the phone. Sometimes I get a helpful response to an email and sometimes nothing. That might be OK for a $500 rifle, but even Ruger answers the damn phone.
@@chipsterb4946 Yeah not sure about their email service, and not a Q hater, but it's factual that they currently aren't picking up any phone calls or even allowing voicemails/phone messages, and haven't been great at responding back via social media as well.
I bought a new weasel. The upper rocks on the lower badly, and there is a massive amount of play. So, I need to modify it to prevent the rock. I have a DD, Palmato, Diamond Back, and a Radical. None have this issue. They are all tight. So i question this video.
I have geissele super duty matched upper and lower receiver with more slop than a 30 year old colt upper and lower. It has all geissele lower parts kits ,buffer tube. I've got a Anderson with less slop. They have 12.5 mk16 rail and the mk4 geissele rails
The issue with value is not that Q is expensive, which it is. It's that with expense comes an expectation of good customer service. Not being a customer yet myself, I can't speak definitively on the topic. What I *can* say is that Q's customer service reputation in the community is terrible, and that gives me pause in a way that the price doesn't. Taking the plunge on a Q rifle seems like a giant risk. If I roll snake eyes and end up with a rifle that lightly flicks primer cups instead of stabbing them hard, I need to know that Q will stand behind their product and make it right. Will they? Or will they tell me to go fuck myself because my LGS stocked Brand C of boutique ammo instead of Brand A or B on the day I ran out?
I ❤ all of my Q guns HoneyBadgerSD MiniFix 308 and now 8.6 Fix was it all a little expensive but I haven’t had one problem with my guns or silencers so that’s value right there. People called my HoneyBadgerSD gay before I bought it then when I got it they’re all like man can I put some rounds through it ? 😂😂😂😂 it’s one of those things once you fire it you understand, I’m just happy they made them I wanted one back in the AAC days so bad. But for me Q just screams QUALITY.
My honey badger suppressor just got approved HEY ATF FILE THE OTHER FUCKING HALF SO I CAN GET MY GUN PLEASE AND THANK YOU trying to enjoy Kevin’s masterpiece over here HELLO!!!
@qllc8143 I just got 2 of my honey badgers, over 3k and they didnt come with "literally the best trigger ever made" or the 2 piece bolt carrier. My sugar weasel came with the 2 piece bolt.
We are shipping all of our Honey Badgers with the 2pc BCG and our trigger. There are still older ones floating around but we don't ship in that configuration anymore.
@@qllc8143 wish I had known silencershop had nos. Either way, I bought the bolt and trigger for one so far and it's freaking awesome! My FIX 8.6 is also a work of art, I can't wait to take down a nilegui with it!
How are suppressors made? Are the baffles machined from one single piece? Are they stamped with a die and welded together? Is the tube just a tube or is it made on a cnc lathe? Anyone know? Perhaps a company that manufactures silencers could post a video showing the broad strokes of the process... I plan to get into the firearms industry eventually. I'd love to work for a company like Q but I really don't wanna live in NH.
@@mr.x4036 it's cold as fuck in the winter and I already live in a place that's cold as fuck in the winter. I'd probably just try to get a job at KAC instead cuz they're in a nice part of Florida. I'm a machinist/tool and die apprentice so I actually am qualified for the type of work gun companies do. I just wanna live somewhere warm year round.
NH has no sales tax and no income tax. It’s beautiful and most of the people are decent and have common sense. Unless you’re over 60 years old… just buy some warm clothes and decent winter tires.
@@chipsterb4946 nah dude. I've been living in a cold place my whole life. I'm not swapping one frozen wasteland for another unless the pay is quite literally unbeatable.
Please make an SD HANDGUARD, I spent lots of Monies on your great product the honey badger and would rather get your 556 honey badger and the boombox, instead of buying an honey badger SD complete upper. Please spend the monies on engineering for the handguard please!!!!
I still want a super-car. A GT40 looks cool. I love how Q is. It's a fun company to pay attention to. And I love my Sugar Weasel to death. If I ever get a can on it, it'll be perfect.
At 00:07, I wanted to comment before I hear anything else... This video needn't have ever been made. If they don't already know, they have no business being here. °now I'll watch the rest of it, or rather, listen to it at my workbench and carve on it after hearing it in it's entirety, to see if I still stand by my statement. Which I will, have no fear. 🤙🏻
This series would be a lot more interesting if you had you know, numbers or video of the factory floor backing any claims you’re making. Instead of poster board and bullshitting. I’ve never seen a new Colt malfunction and they’re $900. What exactly do you QC better than them?
Think maybe you could step up production? I know with the new atf fast turnaround, everyone is sold out..... the fact you don't sell to ffls anymore really hurts, but I get the hassle.
One thing he never mentions is he has enginners because he produces proprietary rifles. If you are producing a known quantity like most AR companies, his argument is completely null and void. BCM doesnt need mechanical egineers onnstaff. If you need them to tool something up you just go pay for services when you need. Keeping a 7 man engieering team on full time staff is a total and complete waste for the companies hes trying to dog.
So you guys are the only ones with quality control and engineers? Machinists? Employees?? You like to do scary things? Sell quality products at an affordable price. That’s very scary for you, huh. How about putting some effort in customer service? And quit acting like you’re better than everyone else. Narcissist
That Q Fix 16 inch barrel 8.6 my dream gun. FACTS
I’ve seen first hand some of the welds on a multiple Thunder Chickens. I’m good.
Definitely no welding engineers lol
They use a robot now, didn't use to though.
Oh well that's good it should be cheap labor then since it's not an engineer
Im here to tell you, you dont know shit about fuck when it comes to welding. "Looks" on the exterior dont tell you much. I have seen plenty of "pretty" weld's fail for lack of fusion, lack of penetration and too much heat from running high amps that led to stress cracking. You dont get to see that until you xray and cut up samples to view under a microscope.
Sig QC has entered the chat
Kevin, keep it up dude. Love what ya do and why you do it. Don't let other's self loathing butthurt get to ya.
I have the utmost respect for state of the art engineering and an excessive emphasis on quality and QC. I’m always willing to pay for engineering and quality regardless of price. If I can’t afford it, then it’s incentive to work and save harder. Kevin: do not change a thing. Keep doing what you’re doing and continue taking your time with engineering and quality control. This customer, appreciates it.
I like how Kevin understands the place and role of cheaper companies without dogging on them for knowing their place. It’s folks who don’t know their place and imitate that gets him feisty.
Kudos to Q for inventing the wheel. Kudos to Daniel Defense for not wasting financial resources to reinvent the wheel.
DD is a bootlicker company.
@@thinkharder9332 Sounds like something a fed would say.
@@thinkharder9332 Plus just because the military wants it ≠ better. That’s some peak retard mindset.
@@thinkharder9332 The government doesn’t want the best they want the lowest bid.
Please do a “How Q” like the TV show Mega Engineering that shows how the Honey Badger is made from raw materials to your local gun store, behind the scene manufacturing process and all that. You can cover all the other products in subsequent episodes. Love you long time. Q Life.
Because engineers (before I watched)
Lol I realized now he's mass producing this content to implant that concept into the minds of consumers. It's just such a cringe bullet point to constantly lean on
*Mekinik engineer
Man you guys must not get tired of getting fuckin roasted constantly.
Waiting on my PorQchop.
I’ve had my 8.6 for 50 Days.
I also have a Sugar Weasel & Honey Badger SD.
Love my Q Weapons!
Thanks Kevin!
Would love to Take my 8.6 and go Hunt in Africa with Kevin!!!
Sounds like Kevin hasn't worked with very many engineers.
EXCELLENT jab on DD. And the Warren Buffet reference too.
I was cheap and now I wished I had waited and just got a honey badger.
Since moons out goons out I’ve bought a fix 8.6, a honey badger and just ordered a mini fix 😂 free cans and light ass guns for competing? Sign me up.
Emails, why we don't reply to them.
no shit
😂 it took 2 email requests to get Q to tell me I needed a “taper adapter” to mount any suppressor or muzzle device not made by Q on my Fix barrel. (I tried to buy a Porq Chop first, but no one seems to have them in stock.) Q doesn’t sell any taper adapter and made no suggestion about where to get one. Faxon sent me one for my 8.6 BLK barrel *for free* One phone call - a human answered and solved my problem. However, that taper adapter doesn’t fit the .308 Winchester barrel *made to Q specs* by Proof Research. One phone call to them - a human answered - and they told me “we don’t make what you need but Griffins Armament might” so I go to that website. Not sure I’ve found what I need for the Fix, I call - a human answers the phone. “We make one for the Sig MCX family but not Q. However, Bauer Precision does.” So I order 1 for my Sig MCX from Griffin and one from Bauer for my Fix .308 Proof barrel.
Anyone see a pattern there?
@@chipsterb4946Q taper adapters for 5/8x24 are in stock at silencer shop right now.
My q was shipped with 2 taper adapters for suppressor mount, I don't see the pattern
@@chipsterb4946Q does sell taper adapters. They’re out of stock on their site, but available elsewhere.
I’m in a completely different industry. But insourcing is always better than outsourcing.
I used to be a system administrator at a small company which got bought out, few months later I get laid off and replaced with an outsourced company. And everyone hates the outsourced company.
They wanted to save a few dollars and ended up with a worse experience.
Such a DeadAir dig. . .
Everytime I see a Q video is up I get all hot and bothered. Just put another 10 bucks into my Q Fix jar. It's gonna be like Christmas day when I get it.
I like that you test fire your rifles before sending them out. I had to return a pistol to a company because the frame locked up at 17 rounds. I guess they didn't test fire it or only shot 5 rounds out of it. Great rifles.
Ferrari doesn't care if you own their car. In fact they rather you didn't, it isn't for the masses. I may never own a Q product but I respect them for moving the gun industry forward.
At 2:25 that was weirdly specific but equally not specific haha. Robinson Arms, SilencerCo, Desert Tech, and Christiansen arms are all in Utah and relatively small companies haha. Something about six dudes chillin in Utah makes us want to make some guns man
As always, much appreciated, Kev! #LiveQOrDie
Its windy at the top. I too design and engineer custom products. Good, Fast and Cheap. You can only pick two.
Is it expensive though? Look at other manufacturers like Noveske, Radian and Knights. it’s in the same range.
I love Q and have spent lots of $$$$ with them. But damn how about customer service? Your phone number doesn't work and 0 response to emails.
Really? Since when?
Dudes emailing Margaret.
No one answers the phone. Sometimes I get a helpful response to an email and sometimes nothing. That might be OK for a $500 rifle, but even Ruger answers the damn phone.
@@chipsterb4946 Yeah not sure about their email service, and not a Q hater, but it's factual that they currently aren't picking up any phone calls or even allowing voicemails/phone messages, and haven't been great at responding back via social media as well.
It's always YQ. Never HOWQ.
I bought a new weasel. The upper rocks on the lower badly, and there is a massive amount of play. So, I need to modify it to prevent the rock. I have a DD, Palmato, Diamond Back, and a Radical. None have this issue. They are all tight.
So i question this video.
I have geissele super duty matched upper and lower receiver with more slop than a 30 year old colt upper and lower. It has all geissele lower parts kits ,buffer tube. I've got a Anderson with less slop. They have 12.5 mk16 rail and the mk4 geissele rails
It's called marketing
Jmy porq chop got out jail last week for my 8in 8.6. Freaking love it!!!!
The issue with value is not that Q is expensive, which it is. It's that with expense comes an expectation of good customer service. Not being a customer yet myself, I can't speak definitively on the topic. What I *can* say is that Q's customer service reputation in the community is terrible, and that gives me pause in a way that the price doesn't.
Taking the plunge on a Q rifle seems like a giant risk. If I roll snake eyes and end up with a rifle that lightly flicks primer cups instead of stabbing them hard, I need to know that Q will stand behind their product and make it right. Will they? Or will they tell me to go fuck myself because my LGS stocked Brand C of boutique ammo instead of Brand A or B on the day I ran out?
Any high tier company does vigorous QC….
What’s with the uptick of trying to validate Q products ?
I ❤ all of my Q guns HoneyBadgerSD MiniFix 308 and now 8.6 Fix was it all a little expensive but I haven’t had one problem with my guns or silencers so that’s value right there. People called my HoneyBadgerSD gay before I bought it then when I got it they’re all like man can I put some rounds through it ? 😂😂😂😂 it’s one of those things once you fire it you understand, I’m just happy they made them I wanted one back in the AAC days so bad. But for me Q just screams QUALITY.
Who tf are you kidding....you are totally the coolest guy on the internet
Please make a beautiful SD version of the Boombox
we might
My DD M4V7s was my fav gun that I fondled every day. Then I bought my Honey Badger and haven’t touched my DD 😅
Go Kevin!
That’s damn skippy!
My honey badger suppressor just got approved HEY ATF FILE THE OTHER FUCKING HALF SO I CAN GET MY GUN PLEASE AND THANK YOU trying to enjoy Kevin’s masterpiece over here HELLO!!!
@qllc8143 I just got 2 of my honey badgers, over 3k and they didnt come with "literally the best trigger ever made" or the 2 piece bolt carrier. My sugar weasel came with the 2 piece bolt.
You bought nos badgers
We are shipping all of our Honey Badgers with the 2pc BCG and our trigger. There are still older ones floating around but we don't ship in that configuration anymore.
@@qllc8143 wish I had known silencershop had nos. Either way, I bought the bolt and trigger for one so far and it's freaking awesome! My FIX 8.6 is also a work of art, I can't wait to take down a nilegui with it!
Nerd management is expensive
My steel PorQchop silencer is lighter than the titanium generation. #Engineering
Hahahhaa the UT mountains sounds like a SiCo or DA or HXwrx ref hahah homie ain’t afraid to throw brands out
pretty sure it's DA
When is KB gonna confirm or deny the Q flamethrower?
Q is some dope ass shib man. Probably never own one, but goodness they sexy.
We dont want to make something and have you test it. (Sig)
That dig is completely fair.
@@chipsterb4946 Thank you good sir. Great minds think alike.
SIG was better while he was there but he had to go do his thang!
if you do manufacturing…. you understand…. Point blank
Except Q doesn’t manufacture any of their barrels… kind of an important part to any rifle.
I wouldn’t describe Daniel Defense as cheap…
I’m a ME, id love to work for q
BEST OF THE BEST. #LiveQorDie
Q=Rolex....Rolex not everybodys pocket. Q..ROLEX GUN...
Lol I would never put Q on the same level as Rolex
Why not 2" or 2.25" in silencers to keep things shorter without loosing volume
This company gives off Gucci PSA vibes! Always trying to tell me why you’re so great is concerning at best.
How are suppressors made? Are the baffles machined from one single piece? Are they stamped with a die and welded together? Is the tube just a tube or is it made on a cnc lathe? Anyone know? Perhaps a company that manufactures silencers could post a video showing the broad strokes of the process...
I plan to get into the firearms industry eventually. I'd love to work for a company like Q but I really don't wanna live in NH.
NH is great. What are the reasons why you do not want to live here?
@@mr.x4036 it's cold as fuck in the winter and I already live in a place that's cold as fuck in the winter. I'd probably just try to get a job at KAC instead cuz they're in a nice part of Florida.
I'm a machinist/tool and die apprentice so I actually am qualified for the type of work gun companies do. I just wanna live somewhere warm year round.
NH has no sales tax and no income tax. It’s beautiful and most of the people are decent and have common sense. Unless you’re over 60 years old… just buy some warm clothes and decent winter tires.
@@chipsterb4946 nah dude. I've been living in a cold place my whole life. I'm not swapping one frozen wasteland for another unless the pay is quite literally unbeatable.
Please make an SD HANDGUARD, I spent lots of Monies on your great product the honey badger and would rather get your 556 honey badger and the boombox, instead of buying an honey badger SD complete upper. Please spend the monies on engineering for the handguard please!!!!
Make the best handgun ever
I still want a super-car. A GT40 looks cool.
I love how Q is. It's a fun company to pay attention to. And I love my Sugar Weasel to death. If I ever get a can on it, it'll be perfect.
wish I had someone to fund me to build a couple off the wall AR's, it's just to bad I'm 52, and still a loser!
This entire video applies to aerospace too. The status of engineering is dire.
Looking forward to the large frame sugar weasel.
👍🏼🥃🇺🇸
Boombox when
Ouch! 😮
At 00:07, I wanted to comment before I hear anything else...
This video needn't have ever been made.
If they don't already know, they have no business being here.
°now I'll watch the rest of it, or rather, listen to it at my workbench and carve on it after hearing it in it's entirety, to see if I still stand by my statement. Which I will, have no fear. 🤙🏻
Kevin stop mentioning engineers. Nobody in a machining field has ever sung high praise to engineers 😂. Get machinists, not engineers.
Y’all take organs for payment lol
I work with a few engineers........they are some weird mofos......but cool 😎
Does Q have a warranty on their suppressors
They do. They were awesome when I had an issue
Where are the Q shirts??
Father Kevin, you are preaching too much truth. Cousin Rodney isn't ready to repent. 🤣🤣🤣
🔥🇺🇸🏴☠️
Shout out to engineer John, he is cool
Build a pistol (handgun)
The Trash Panda is hands down the best can on the market 👌
I’m a believer mr brittingham
This series would be a lot more interesting if you had you know, numbers or video of the factory floor backing any claims you’re making. Instead of poster board and bullshitting.
I’ve never seen a new Colt malfunction and they’re $900. What exactly do you QC better than them?
Think maybe you could step up production? I know with the new atf fast turnaround, everyone is sold out..... the fact you don't sell to ffls anymore really hurts, but I get the hassle.
That's a worldwide issue.
You are misinformed
@@russellgavin1820 how so we are an ffl
@@russellgavin1820inform us then
Wooooooooo
Yes you have engineers. So do most other companies. This engineer harping is getting old lol.
One thing he never mentions is he has enginners because he produces proprietary rifles. If you are producing a known quantity like most AR companies, his argument is completely null and void. BCM doesnt need mechanical egineers onnstaff. If you need them to tool something up you just go pay for services when you need. Keeping a 7 man engieering team on full time staff is a total and complete waste for the companies hes trying to dog.
Horrible customer service
How so? Not saying your wrong, i just would like to hear what happened in your experience
So you guys are the only ones with quality control and engineers? Machinists? Employees?? You like to do scary things? Sell quality products at an affordable price. That’s very scary for you, huh. How about putting some effort in customer service? And quit acting like you’re better than everyone else. Narcissist
Love Q
@qllc8143 is the podcast coming back possibly? I have nothing else to look forward to on spotify
It is coming soon