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Posted: 7/9/2014 12:12:35 PM EDT
| The past two days I have stripped and cleaned two different ar's. Most things went well, except for replacing the pin that holds the extractor in. Youtube videos show the people just dropping the pin in. Well, it didn't work that way for me. I had a devil of a time. I probably spent at minimum of an hour on each ar on that ONE part. The first one finally dropped in after I pushed down on both ends of the extractor. The one yesterday I finally pounded it in with a brass hammer. What am I doing wrong and is there a trick I don't know? |
| Yeah, it is obvious my technique sucks. Both my wife and I worked at it pushing this way and that, lining the holes up with a punch,etc, Nothing worked. However, the good news is that both rifles function fine. We went out and practiced a while because we have a 3 gun match this weekend and because I wanted to make sure they worked. |
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This is one of those things where you have to "hold your mouth right" to get it done.
I've always inserted the pin with the extractor loose in it's slot and then depressed it with my thumb just where the pin hole is. Eventually you can actually feel the pin starting into the extractor itself. Absent that, a punch smaller than the pin could be used to line things up and then you slowly withdraw it while feeding in the pin. Easier to do than to describe. |
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