Originally Posted by mtcraigco

Heres some info I posted over at defcarry regarding this issue.....

Since realizing the failure rate of the R-52, (a material we tried instead of kydex for the clips...OOOOPs!) we went back to Kydex T100 and noticed an immediate reduction in the failure rate. That was good, but I want bulletproof, so we are moving forward with metal clips.

The tooling alone for this move will be about $10,000 but we are big enough now to swallow that and move forward with the improved clips. In the meantime we will continue to make the clips out of Kydex T100 (NOT R-52) which is much stronger and far less brittle than R-52. As soon as we can get the tooling done and the clips in production we will move to metal clips, that should be near the end of this year or the first of next. In the meantime any clip failures will (and always have been) replaced at a rate of two for one. If you call and say you broke a clip, we send you a new pair and the hardware, no charge.

With that said, please be aware our clip breakage rate is still not all that high, we are just committed to getting it to zero. To be honest, some folks have broken two or three sets and others have broken zero.

As to metal fatigue that is something we are looking at and will be going with a material that has good "memory" and low fatigue over time.

This was also posted in response to what we were going to do about the clips possibly rusting.


When we know, you will know. We are in the prototype stage and then will need to move to getting the tooling made.

It's looking like 3 mos to get the first batch out, so I don't want anybody thinking this is something they'll see tomorrow.

That's pretty much the story regarding clips, figure on new ones being available around the end of the year or first of next. I expect the kydex to greatly reduce the problem (and already has) but am looking for the metal ones to eliminate it altogether.

For the time being we will only be making the snaploks out of metal as all the other clips styles are doing well as they are.