pratik_mahale wrote:kasimpatel wrote:Before jump in to gas ram,percihole need to improove thier product.their AR still have so many problems.like trigger, aim pin etc.
Yes there were some problems in perciholes guns but how you finish is much more important than how you start!
Well said, Pratik. Moreover, which direction you choose and the boldness exhibited in taking that step is also worth noting. We must remember that any change in product assembly line entails costs in terms of capital investment which more often than not takes a considerable time to recover, let alone get into profits. That is what I appreciate about PH as a company and its vision.
As an example, I quote from an old news article - Students of IIT Mumbai had submitted a paper to a manufacturer of auto-rickshaws, to make them more fuel-efficient and customer friendly from safety perspective. The MD who is a mighty intelligent fellow himself appreciated all their efforts and agreed with them conceptually. But it would entail about Rs. 1 crore of investment in the assembly line changes, he said. Why should I spend that much when there's already an international and national market for what I am selling currently ?! Now what was a crore to a wealthy and unbeatable man like him ? A drop in a bucket ? But that was his attitude and unwillingness to invest into a better future - for OTHERS !
Coming back to Indian ARs - late Shri. Walchand Hirachand's dreams and strong will prevailed into getting us an IHP. That is definitely laudable. But what did the inheritors do ? They had all the things necessary to make India an AR manufacturing hub like PRC or even Turkey - cash flow (their main business has a turnover of several hundred times as compared with the AR unit), ready made market, infrastructure, lines & channels of sales etc. But in spite of all these things, they possibly lacked the vision and the desire to go big. Thankfully, they nevertheless allowed the good Doc to better the existing products and introduce newer ones in the PCP line.
I know of one and heard of other Indian entrepreneurs who chose to take that step in spite of being small fish, both of them technically strong. One of them took strides in terms of technical and qualitative aspects of springers while the other ventured into PCP domain. Both thought of readily providing various orders of "spares" which the Indian user simply did not know where to go for. In one case, it was pointed out that certain aspect of the business model chosen was not ethically right and the last I heard, he had corrected that mistake. Both sustain with variable degree of success. For reasons, I choose not to name them.
But what about the other "production houses" in India ? They remind me of horror movie makers of yore, who churned out similar fare using the same rubber masks over and over. Or the monopolistic car company, when we were "socialist", that kept churning out same official and large family car since 1950s under guise of different "marks" with no improvement in carburetor technology or gas-guzzling engines . In the first case, the generation simply died out and almost did the film genre, while it took the Maruti to lift up the mountain of Indian car industry.
Disclaimer: I still like those horror flicks as they still make me smile and I took my first (Indian) license test on that big tank without the turret and guns.
So for all their flaws, they are somewhere inside me, in a soft spot.
Anyway, I had shot with the prototype of that GasRam and at the time had practically zero grasp of the concept. But it was quite an experience and more so the information provided patiently by the designer and Brihji at the time cleared several aspects which Brihji has once again explained here. Absorbing all the technical information which was being given out, selecting particular mother lode of information and then relating it to the technicalities of shooting was simply over-whelming at the time.
So I humbly await PH to make the "piston" available for my Pegasus. To PH and to Brihji
Can't wait for all new Orion to hit the market 
