Shipped off my M5 Upper today to Ken Elmore at Specialized Armament, he is going to use it to develop a new product for which I will get one at N/C. Maybe in a month or 2 or 3 lol. But eventually.

What kind of new product?

I imagine I’ll see it on your channel eventually, but how about some inside info? :-D

Sent you a PM.

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He's making barrel nut wrenches?

He is not making and marketing his barrel nut wrenches to the general public. They are priced at a point almost no one will pay. There is a lot of work and hand fabrication in these.

The one I bought from him for my 6940 Monolithic I was hoping would also work with the M5 since they use the same castellated barrel nut, but it don't. The upper receivers between the 6940 and M5 are very different.

I paid the high price for the tool because I wanted one for my 6940,s, discovered it didn't work with my M5s, sent one of my M5 uppers to Ken and he is making M5 wrenches from me, himself and his shop only.

No one has a M5 Barrel nut wrench except the Colt factory or a private individual machinist who might have made his own. Basically no one has one.

Ken told me in last email he had received my M5 upper and was ordering the material. He has been fantastic to work with.

My 6940 wrench is a work of art.

This is the dumbest AR related product I’ve ever fucking seen and that says a lot.  Grift game ?? tho.

There are several AR related products being discussed in this thread, which one lol?


Hammer Cage

Barrel nut wrench

Hammer install tool

I don't know what the poster meant but really wouldn't loading the hammer in any tool take the same effort to load as just installing it? I mean compressing the spring to a certain point is compressing the spring to a certain point. Effort in pushing the pin in is pushing the pin in. I don't get it on tool use for some reason.

I installed 3 LPK's today.  The hammer install took about 30 seconds at most for each.  I love tools as much as any guy, but this hammer cage thing is one I will never own.

If I could locate another KNS, I would buy it as I love collecting tools I find useful for myself. My AR tool collection is as enjoyable and important to me as my gun collection. I find the KNS handy for me. Im 65, my hands and fingers are not what they once were.

I find the KNS tool to be simple and easy to load the hammer. The other tool the manufacture refers to as SHIT, their acronym not mine (Superior Hammer Install Tool) I find it dangerous to load due to a completely different design and at $120 dollars it will never sell. I sold mine already on that other site. I bought it just to evaluate it.

The SHIT tool uses a cut off 10 penny nail as a punch. Im not for using steel punches on hammer and trigger pins, even though steel is what the KNS uses. I use wood.

The SHIT tool will have a few sales with the SOTAR group after their leader orders his followers to buy it, especially when Ned shows up to train his classes, but I doubt it will ever sell on the open market.

Honestly, I’m not sure why people feel compelled to respond to my thread asking about if anyone’s ever released something similar to the hammer cage and say how much they think it’s stupid or that they don’t need it.

Good for you! If anyone was curious about your opinion about the hammer cage, I’m sure they’re now satisfied.

You haven’t contributed anything to this thread, though.

Sorry about that, I have UNSUBSCRIBED from thread.

You weren’t the problem

New here, huh?!?  

So, much to my surprise, someone mentioned that they had an old KNS Hammer cage but that they don’t do any gunsmithing anymore. And, he was willing to sell me his. So, I’ve managed to replace my irreplaceable set.

In the meantime, I had ordered a couple of other tools and this eve, I did some testing after assembling my replacement Strike Industries AR Trigger Hammer Jig.

Regardless of how a hammer is installed, KNS Hammer/Trigger Guide Pins are always useful, as are slave pins.

So, the discontinued KNS Precision Hammer Cage is still the easiest one to use, hands down.

The Superior Hammer Install Tool is next in line. It would have been my go to tool if a replacement Hammer Cage hadn’t miraculously become available.

The Hammer Handle is, in my opinion, a distinct third. You still have to deal with the spring pressure while maneuvering the hammer into place. Without the pointy KNS hammer guide pin, it still would have been far more difficult. The other two options at least take all the spring tension off.

But of course, one is basically unobtainable, and the other is expensive as heck…

Anyway, my opinion is worth what you paid for it…

That Strike Industries jig just needs one more hole drilled to become a Lyndon receiver.  

Just had someone inform me that KNS has a very limited # of Hammer Cages available. Go to KNS Precision website and click on Blem parts. I just picked up another to hoard for a giveaway sometime.



https://knsprecisioninc.com/kns-blem-parts/

Holy crap!

Every year at the SHOT Show I ask them if they have any in some corner of the warehouse somewhere and they tell me “no”, if they even know what tool I’m talking about.

Thanks!

OOS now.

Seriously, how has no one not 3d printed one of the KNS hammer cages for like $10 a pop???

I actually got a tracking # for the one I ordered yesterday. Going to do a giveaway with it.