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Posted: 11/25/2005 10:39:56 AM EDT
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I was doing my Traditional Thanksgiving Mag Oil Down. when your stuffed to the gills, having a sitdown in front of the TV football watching party it seemed a fine thing to do to pull the Ol' mags from their storage pouches for a light coat of oil. I noticed something that I had not before and am a bit concerned. On the back of the magazines is the lock plate ,"the tab" that is welded to the magazine that engages the magazine release, and thus holds the mag in place. On several of my magazines, the "tab" has two visible holes on the back stacked at 12 and 6. On others the two holes have company with smaller holes above and below the two large holes. at the 11 - 1 and 5 - 7 from the two larger stacked holes. Any insight on these differences? I've owned these mags for 10 plus years, so I doubt they are the new faked / cloned mags out there. Most seem to be marked CMI. Thanks for any insights or knowledge from the AR15.com "Hive Mind" BIGGER_HAMMER 
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Sir, no need to be concerned. USGI drawing 7790197 (Tube Assembly, Magazine) allows the magazine latch plate to have either two, four, five or six weld dimples. For the most part (but not an absolute rule), each USGI M14 magazine manufacturer placed a set number of weld dimples on the magazine latch plate. Borg-Warner Spring Division (BRW S-1) magazines are a known exception to this general rule of thumb. I have BRW S-1 magazines with different number of weld dimples on the magazine latch plate. HTH |
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