Madness
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As there seems to be a long standing issue with the availability of suitable anchors, why doesn't the BCA use some of it's considerable bank balance to develope a new forged stainless steel anchor?
They could even join forces with the BMC and jointly develope one.
Simon Wilson has developed a very good anchor, but I don't think that he has plans to make it commercially available.
If the BCA developed one, perhaps it could even be sold commercially to help recover development costs. Having said that, there shouldn't really be much deveopement cost as we already know roughly what's needed. The main up front cost would be in the tooling required to forge these.
A forging company may even be prepared to cover the cost of producing and maintaining tooling if they can be convinced that they will sell enough of the forgings.
It might be something worth looking into.
They could even join forces with the BMC and jointly develope one.
Simon Wilson has developed a very good anchor, but I don't think that he has plans to make it commercially available.
If the BCA developed one, perhaps it could even be sold commercially to help recover development costs. Having said that, there shouldn't really be much deveopement cost as we already know roughly what's needed. The main up front cost would be in the tooling required to forge these.
A forging company may even be prepared to cover the cost of producing and maintaining tooling if they can be convinced that they will sell enough of the forgings.
It might be something worth looking into.