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Posted: 8/18/2005 4:00:54 PM EDT
GET ONE..... Assembled my last Armalite/Eagale arms lower last night, used the tool to install the front pivot pin, yup, much much easier.....
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Made mine out of a 3" x 1/4" bolt with a 2" shank. Cut the threads off, radius the end & smooth the saw marks with a file. Drill an 1/8" hole 1/4" above the radius so your punch will pass through & push the detent pin into place. Withdraw the punch as you turn the bolt. For tactical aplications you'll want to paint the bolt black 
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| I still don't see the need for it. It's been about 3 years since I did it, but I just dropped the spring in, dropped the detent in, then used the pin to push the detent in. I put one finger on either side of the hole and then used them to guide the pin in on top of the detent. Once there, I just slid the pin in. That was so much easier than the bolt catch pin. |
I made my own from rod. I put the larger of the two all the way threw the lower. I then line up the hole in the rod with the area where the spring and d-tent gos. I then push the spring and d-tent down with the smaller rod. I then turn both rods so the d-tent rest on the rod. Then just push the front pivit pin in at the same time you pull the larger rod out. I made the larger rod the same size as the front pivit pin. 
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I've never used this tool but for $1, it's worth a try. Thanks. |
I made mine from a bolt like JimTh did. But this clevis pin idea is one I will pass on to people that can't drill holes. Good idea!
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Insert the tool through the holes in the reciever, then aline the holes in the tool with the holes for the spring and detent. Insert the spring first, through the hole in the line up tool an dinto the hole in the reciever, Insert the detent next, same way. Take a small punh and dpress the detent into the hole in the reciever, then rotate the tool so that the detent ins held down, then insert the pivot pin while withdrawing the tool for the holes in the frame, if doen right, the detent should pop right into the slot in the pivot pin without being launched into orbit. |
so true.....
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