12-11-2014, 09:53 PM
jurassic Wrote:I saw the same thing when I removed my handguard to clean the rifle. That is why I used loctite on the tube and not the gas block itself. Also wouldn't a leak free gas system give you more consistent pressure and velocity, helping with consistency? I'm pretty sure I read about the green loctite from something posted by Bill on this forum.
Why didn't you remove and loctite the gas tube since that's where you have the leak?
All true. Loctite green? Didn't have it. Choice was Blue or Red. I cut the Blue wire. Remember - this was a simple experiment, and I didn't want to cement anything in place. Red seemed too ominous.
Why didn't I pull the tube and seal it? In all candor, I couldn't be bothered. I was looking into a different issue at the time, and this was low priority. I've run plenty of systems without sealing the gas tubes, but never ran a setscrew gas block. My previous focus was on that, and that alone.
I'd like to convince myself that I left the gas tube alone so that I could determine if the carbon would eventually seal the leaks without help but, as I mentioned, I just didn't worry over it. No - wait! That's it... I'm conducting a longer term test on carbon build up. That's it. Carbon build up test.
