[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Safety swap

Posted: 8/3/2015 3:12:11 PM EDT

This place has been sleepy lately!

Here's a little home shop project I did, I've been putting an AR together for my brother, he's not a big gun guy, but wants one stashed away for a rainy day.

He shoots lefty due to being partially blind in his right eye, so I swapped the safety around for him.

I'm not a big fan of ambidextrous safeties, and the budget doesn't allow for a full on left handed gun, but a cheap mod to make handling more intuitive is doable.

First stab with a tiny dremel "carbide" ball didn't go so well.

So I annealed it

After that it was easy to drill the two divots, then connect them with the dremel.

Crappy phone photo

Took a few test fittings and grinding to get it right, but now it functions fine. I'll re-harden it for the final finish.

Thought I was perfectly square but it looks like I was a few degrees off.