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Posted: 11/23/2012 5:51:34 PM EDT
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I got a castle nut wrench and went about straightening my buffer tube. The good news is that I got the buffer tube on straight. The bad news is that the notch from the castle nut was only about 1mm off of the old mark so staking it was difficult since material had already been removed. It looks ugly, but it should work. What do you think?
Pic of straightened stock 
Crappy stake job 
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I have found that wrenching the nut will always turn the tube.
So I tighten it down ahead of TDC so that it cranks into TDC rather than past it. That takes a little finesse and usually a few tries. I gave you shit in the other thread but I now laud you for getting a wrench and learning how to install and stake the tube yourself. You can stake the nut at any one of the other slots. Some folks do two stakes. |
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I have found that wrenching the nut will always turn the tube. So I tighten it down ahead of TDC so that it cranks into TDC rather than past it. That takes a little finesse and usually a few tries. I gave you shit in the other thread but I now laud you for getting a wrench and learning how to install and stake the tube yourself. This was the method I used. I let it turn into TDC. Since there was some material missing from the original staking I really had to get my punch in there to move some material. Doesn't look the prettiest but it'll work. Glad I am learning how to do some of this stuff myself. |
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I have found that wrenching the nut will always turn the tube. So I tighten it down ahead of TDC so that it cranks into TDC rather than past it. That takes a little finesse and usually a few tries. I gave you shit in the other thread but I now laud you for getting a wrench and learning how to install and stake the tube yourself. This was the method I used. I let it turn into TDC. Since there was some material missing from the original staking I really had to get my punch in there to move some material. Doesn't look the prettiest but it'll work. Glad I am learning how to do some of this stuff myself. AR's are basically assembled, staking is one of the few operations where you are actually shaping metal. I understand that people are hesitant to do that. But as you have learned, there is really nothing to it. It's not cutting diamonds but the notion of ichi-go ichi-e applies. Commit to the attack. There, I just made staking a castle nut a zen experience. 
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Loctite the tube in place before torquing the nut. Perfectly straight stock every time. ETA use high strength red. Its rated for threads the size of the buffer tube. and to get it back off for whatever reason, without dicking finish? It says on the product. Use heat. The nut passing over the threads is going to "dick the finish" anyway. If you use side mounted sling swivels then eventually your tube will probably turn. The torque spec for castle nuts was never intended to have that kind of force applied to the buttstock. I guess I just don't see how loctite can screw up threads unless you try to remove it without bothering to soften the thread locker. |
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I got a castle nut wrench and went about straightening my buffer tube. The good news is that I got the buffer tube on straight. The bad news is that the notch from the castle nut was only about 1mm off of the old mark so staking it was difficult since material had already been removed. It looks ugly, but it should work. What do you think? Pic of straightened stock http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n164/rxer311/P1040052.jpg Crappy stake job http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n164/rxer311/P1040054.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n164/rxer311/P1040053.jpg that millimeter off would just eat and eat at me till i couldn't stand it anymore. doesn't it call out at you all night, keeping you from sleep? |
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I got a castle nut wrench and went about straightening my buffer tube. The good news is that I got the buffer tube on straight. The bad news is that the notch from the castle nut was only about 1mm off of the old mark so staking it was difficult since material had already been removed. It looks ugly, but it should work. What do you think? Pic of straightened stock http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n164/rxer311/P1040052.jpg Crappy stake job http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n164/rxer311/P1040054.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n164/rxer311/P1040053.jpg that millimeter off would just eat and eat at me till i couldn't stand it anymore. doesn't it call out at you all night, keeping you from sleep? It was! Thats why I had to fix it! From the other thread...this is how it was before. 
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