Public Service Announcement- Aero Precision lowers
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TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
I'll need to check?
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
I have those for 10 and 15's. Strike shift pins are the easy button.I just spent the last 3 hours shutting up and drinking beers. I got no regrets.
Aero lowers ( at least the M4E1 lowers) have the channel for the detente and spring for the takedown pin threaded and a little set screw comes with all the Aero LPKs. So when you drop the detente in and then the spring, you cut the spring with nippers ( I left about 3 coils hanging out of the lower) and then you thread the set screw down flush. It keeps you from having to dick with the spring when you are installing/removing the end plate.
Another PSA. The Wheeler tool for installing the pivot pin. This one.
Don't waste your money. The one doubles as a roll pin set punch, but for installing the pivot pin they are a pain in the ass. I shot the detente across my shop 6 times before finally losing it and having to dig another one out of the drawer. I did finally get it, but I think the best/easiest way is the magnet trick. Insert the spring then put a small magnet on the opposing side of the pin. The detente will then stick to the pin on the other side. Stick it in, shove the pin in, done.
Yeah, That was something I read when I was shopping for the latest one. It arrived today and it is just like other ones I had bought. Sorry for the bad inf. But great idea huh?
Lots o the uppers and lowers fit together well, especially from the dame brand. The nylon–tipped tension adjuster eliminated the clearance between the pins and holes that can allow a click or clack when you fall to prone.
Don't worry though. I have to explain this to lots of people.
Bassbob
Emissary
Oh I’m sure you do.
Doesn’t change the fact that if your **** is tight to begin with you don’t need the little screw. Which primarily functions to make your takedown pin require a tool to push out. Which is also going to wear the nylon tip down over time, probably requiring you to take the grip off and readjust it, up to the point it’s gone and then replace it.Your choice, stealth or a $4 part. You decide. I'll give you some time to think about it.Oh I’m sure you do.
Bassbob
Emissary
First of all it isn't a $4 part. You can't spend $4 and put it in your non Aero lower.
Secondly, if you think that little nylon tip is more impervious than any of the other stupid shite people use to cram in their poor fitting receivers you got some screws loose.
And again, it isn't about making you look stupid brother. I don't try to make anyone look stupid. It's a solution to a problem that is clearly avoidable to begin with. My WC rig is tight as a tick's ass. And the Aero lower mated perfectly to the Bravo upper on the latest one. I did engage tighten the pin and then backed it off just enough to make it possible to get the takedown pin out without tools. Time will tell if it causes excessive wear on the takedown pin.
And to be sure, I don't need my takedown pins to be dead silent if I lose my mind and decide to fling myself to the ground to shoot prone.
Bassbob
Emissary
You mean that I don't generally drop to the ground and shoot prone while listening to whether or not my takedown pins make noise ? That'd be correct.
I think the rest of that word salad is a rehash of what you said before. But the thing I found most interesting is you let slip that you don't have any direct knowledge on this topic.
Belt Fed
Ronin
I hate it when that happens. When i'm roamin the neighborhood lookin for liberals to run off and suddenly spot two people with blue hair. I'm thinkin oh crap here we go. two of them gender confused idiots. so i drop on the ground to better scope them out and the two halves rattle. OMG My buttcheeks tension up just knowing i have been heard and the two will approach hitting me with their purse.
Then breathing a sigh of relief when i see it's only aun't Cora and Cousin Betty. they be really old and can't hear anyway so the rattle don't matter.
Bassbob
Emissary
It's probably not useful to fat guys who do all of their fantasizing at the bench. Or to overconfident dead guys.
The gun industry should stick with parts that only matter to you.
Dude, I all but guarantee you’re fat.
You have a rich fantasy life Benchrest-Bob. We see it here every day. But not, it seems an imaginative one. I'm about 20 pounds over, 6'3" 225.
Of course, that's not the point at all. Both you and mini-me said you would never have an occasion to flop to prone. That's a tell.
In fact, whether you use the tension screw isn't the point either. The fact that an upper has one and it is already threaded indicates a higher quality piece.
Of course, that's not the point at all. Both you and mini-me said you would never have an occasion to flop to prone. That's a tell.
In fact, whether you use the tension screw isn't the point either. The fact that an upper has one and it is already threaded indicates a higher quality piece.
Bassbob
Emissary
A) The screw is in the lower, genius. The Aero lower is definitely not higher quality than, let's say, my Wilson, which doesn't have a screw. There are a great number of lowers that are higher quality than Aero and don't have a screw. You can pretend the screw is for pin rattle or whatever BS you want, but it was designed for one thing. To tighten up loose fitting receivers.
B) It was easy to disprove your point in simulation. Result, my takedown pins don't rattle in ANY of my guns, even the ones with no nylon screw.
C) I engaged the screw in my Aero LOWER, a few days back when I finally got my buffer and went ahead and staked the castle nut. The pin was tight. Just in handing and engaging and disengaging the pin over a few days, the nylon tip has already worn or loosened.
D) I would be willing to bet money I spend more time in actual training in a year than you have in your entire life and no, part of my training does NOT involve throwing myself or my gun to the ground with enough force to smack my gun on the ground. If you need advice for drills that are actually useful with carbines, let me know, I got a few.
E) The only time I am on a bench is zeroing an optic or shooting long range.
F) 6' and 225 lbs ? Like I said, you are fat. And I guarantee you're slow.
Bassbob
Emissary
Says the guy who thinks the screw he knows so much about is in the upper.The internet-expert-fu is strong with you Benchrest-Bob. But I don't really know how you could take a combat class without flopping on your belly.
Unless you were taking the seniors class, that is.
You might know how to drop to prone without "Flopping on your belly" if you actually took a class.
SimonRL
Hellcat
Can you replace with a torx screw? I hate hex screws, they are guaranteed to go to crap. I think even the Wheeler bits are shite. I’ve started ordering multiple individual bits from Chapman. Between all the bad bits and bad screws working on guns has become a real crap shoot.