10-27-2011, 10:34 PM
Building an upper is not too difficult. The hardest part to me is getting the barrel nut to line up properly. You do need a special wrench and a torque wrench to accomplish that. I did ruin a couple of nuts, but that was part of learning process.
A couple of builds I went with one of the Daniel Defense rails which use a special nut that eliminates that problem. I was going with a gas piston system also so it made it easy.
I went from total novice builder to accomplished novice builder in about 8 months, building 6 uppers. The all worked better from the start than one high priced upper I had purchased from a well known maker.
Read and study a little, and you can have the satisfaction of making your own as you like. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that you will save money cause you probably will not.
A couple of builds I went with one of the Daniel Defense rails which use a special nut that eliminates that problem. I was going with a gas piston system also so it made it easy.
I went from total novice builder to accomplished novice builder in about 8 months, building 6 uppers. The all worked better from the start than one high priced upper I had purchased from a well known maker.
Read and study a little, and you can have the satisfaction of making your own as you like. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that you will save money cause you probably will not.