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Posted: 2/11/2003 5:05:50 AM EDT
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I just got a A2 kit everything seems good on it exept the handguards are loose. They are tight and sit well in the back near the delta ring but up front near the front sight assumably there is a slight space between them. So wen I grab on to them I can compress them together. Do I just have a set of undersized handguards or is there something I can do (other than duck tape them)? Any input would be appreciated. |
| Well if I dont compress them there is about 1mm or 2mm gap on the left side, front half. If I do compress them like tape them together then there is a littel all around play in the front. It seems like if I moved that metal triangel behind the front sight assabely back it would help, but I dont think that it can be done. |
| are you sure the handguards are slid all the way forward? Slip the handguards in to the muzzle end first and then let the ring go forward? there shouldn't be any gaps between the guards unless you have weights under them, and if you do, you need to file those down. |
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ak10007, The down and dirty is that the hand guards are bound on the barrel nut inside the delta ring. Either the hand gurads where made a bit too short, the barrel a bit too long, or you have a bur in the plastic at the nut ring slot that is not allowing the guards to slip forward. In time, due to the barrel nut getting hot, the hand gaurds will slip forward when the plasic starts to give at the barrel nut slot in the hand gaurds. P.S. No mater how tight you get the hand guards tight into the front retainer, you will still have some play/wiggle. The front retainer is held in place by only the gas tube, and after a while, the front retainer is going to wiggle side to side. |
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My vote is to just drop a RLL in the rifle, insert a C-mag and do a mag dump. The hand guards will move forward, the barrel will be stressed releived/fire lapped, and the rest of the rifle will be broken it. In just a little under 8 seconds and all your problems will be solved. |
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