11-12-2020, 01:17 AM
Handguard arrived. I don't have a barrel or barrel extension (Brownell's hasn't shipped the extension yet and BHW will ship the barrel when they get around to it) but I was able to piece it together for any wondering how it does actually work and for posterity. All current Odin handguards apparently use this system.
This is the forend adaptor. Threads all in the same direction (discolor is from some antiseize from prior receiver use):
[ATTACH=CONFIG]17115[/ATTACH]
This is the forend adaptor screen onto the receiver:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]17116[/ATTACH]
And this is the barrel nut screwed all of the way in:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]17117[/ATTACH]
So the barrel nut presses the extension against the receiver extension as normal and then the torque will flow into the adaptor and through to the interface between the adaptor threads and receiver extension threads. They include a packet of thread locker to use on everything which includes the portions of the red spectrum I can perceive (and no green or blue), so it's safe to assume it's red
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The bottoms of the screwholes on the receiver have flanges, presumably to stop the screws from going too deep. If they did, they would actually go into the barrel nut threads in the front and the receiver extension threads in the rear. Probably not a good idea!
This thing is light with plenty of internal clearance and I am definitely liking the attachment system better than many of the lightweight options that secure the handguard on the barrel nut with a clamshell type system (where my theory is that changing tension could move the rifles zero).
This is the forend adaptor. Threads all in the same direction (discolor is from some antiseize from prior receiver use):
[ATTACH=CONFIG]17115[/ATTACH]
This is the forend adaptor screen onto the receiver:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]17116[/ATTACH]
And this is the barrel nut screwed all of the way in:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]17117[/ATTACH]
So the barrel nut presses the extension against the receiver extension as normal and then the torque will flow into the adaptor and through to the interface between the adaptor threads and receiver extension threads. They include a packet of thread locker to use on everything which includes the portions of the red spectrum I can perceive (and no green or blue), so it's safe to assume it's red
.The bottoms of the screwholes on the receiver have flanges, presumably to stop the screws from going too deep. If they did, they would actually go into the barrel nut threads in the front and the receiver extension threads in the rear. Probably not a good idea!
This thing is light with plenty of internal clearance and I am definitely liking the attachment system better than many of the lightweight options that secure the handguard on the barrel nut with a clamshell type system (where my theory is that changing tension could move the rifles zero).
Let's go Brandon!