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[#1]
Thanks and enjoy your Colt.
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[#2]
You can physically feel a variation where that line is?
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Tom Sawyer.
"If The Rules brought us to this, what use are they?" |
[#3]
That is nothing.
Colt has never really worried about cosmetics. You should have seen the nasty looking crap they put out during the Clinton ban. |
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[Last Edit: BlueShirtGuy]
[#4]
Originally Posted By tortilla-flats: You can physically feel a variation where that line is? View Quote Yep. The line is a raised area. |
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Originally Posted By BlueShirtGuy: Yep. The line is a raised area. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By BlueShirtGuy: Originally Posted By tortilla-flats: You can physically feel a variation where that line is? Yep. The line is a raised area. ---------------------------- In the theme of ARFCOM, "Have Samuel call me". |
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Tom Sawyer.
"If The Rules brought us to this, what use are they?" |
[#6]
I suppose that is better than the grinder marks.
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Originally Posted By tortilla-flats: That doesn't seem right. I would contact Colt Customer Service and see what they say. https://www.colt.com/service/ ---------------------------- In the theme of ARFCOM, "Have Samuel call me". View Quote It's just cosmetic and it's a NFA item so even if they replaced it I would be out another $200. Another angle: |
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Originally Posted By oxford411: I suppose that is better than the grinder marks. View Quote Attached File |
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Originally Posted By mad_mardigan: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/175932/20200416_104718_jpg-3283951.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By mad_mardigan: Originally Posted By oxford411: I suppose that is better than the grinder marks. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/175932/20200416_104718_jpg-3283951.JPG Attached File Also a factory SBR. |
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Can't never could 'til try came along.
"All welchers should be removed from the EE".-Aimless R.I.P. to the EE |
[#10]
^^^^ There it is, I was waiting for that pic.
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Can't never could 'til try came along.
"All welchers should be removed from the EE".-Aimless R.I.P. to the EE |
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[#12]
Serial # is CR8423**. Anyone have a close # to see if theirs have this issue?
Bet there was an issue with the die and serials close to this one have the same thing. |
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Originally Posted By BlueShirtGuy: It's just cosmetic and it's a NFA item so even if they replaced it I would be out another $200. Another angle: https://i.postimg.cc/SRxmb3sk/20240802-165203.jpg View Quote If everything else is fine and square… and that line is just a forging blem and not the result of something crushed/bent… I wouldnt care too much. |
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[#14]
Maybe it's a reinforced mag well since it's thicker.
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Originally Posted By Frens: If everything else is fine and square… and that line is just a forging blem and not the result of something crushed/bent… I wouldnt care too much. View Quote As far as I can see everything is square and nothing is crushed or bent. That seam is the only thing noticeable telling me it's probably a forge die issue. |
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[#16]
I'd be more disappointed in the casting voids present at the bottom of mag well.
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[#17]
I'd be more concerned with a purple color one
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[#19]
Sent pictures to a guy that works for Colt and they stated the seam is due to the finishing process and is not a defect of any underlying structure.
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[#20]
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"I am not an Operator but I play one on AR15.com"
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“If you want a glimpse of the future, imagine a clown shoe stamping on a human face. Forever.”
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I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul
NC, USA
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[#22]
It could be worse. I just came across this one on Gunbroker. Even with Colt doing Colt things, I'm surprised it made it out the door.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1062613521 |
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And you believe that is genuine, Gunbroker no less?
I'm a little skeptical, to say the least. |
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Originally Posted By uniquesnd: Looks better than the line on my transferable lower. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/347041/IMG_2017_jpeg-3288884.JPG View Quote Norrells reweld? Looks like one of his .....H&R front + Hydramatic rear |
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Originally Posted By uniquesnd: Looks better than the line on my transferable lower. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/347041/IMG_2017_jpeg-3288884.JPG View Quote Who is shown as the Manufacturer on the Form 4? That looks like it might be a weld up of two destroyed lowers that was done before the '86 cutoff date. A number of Class 3/SOTs would buy batches of the lowers that the government had cut up. Parts would be chosen so that a viable lower could be readily welded up from two parts. John Norrell was the acknowledged master of such weldups. So much so that the BATFE had some of his lowers x-rayed as they did not believe that they were, indeed, weldups. I've never seen a weldup, but the typical weldups that I've seen in photos look similar to the posted photo. On the other hand, When your making as many M16s as Colt did in the Vietnam era, almost anything will go out the door. MHO, YMMV, etc. |
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