05-11-2021, 02:28 PM
Thanks montana. Yeah, clearly you do it right. I did it wrong. LOL It was my first build, my first time installing a gas block. I way over-did it with the LT. Bonded the entire inner surface of the GB to the barrel. I think I actually tried twisting on the GB to get it to rotate but with no good result. I didn't want to throw a pipe wrench on it, and the upper was at that point clamped into my vice with one of those clamshell holders. I didn't want to over-torque the barrel and receiver.
BTW, just for the record since I didn't make it clear. I've never glued/LT'd a barrel into a receiver. My dowel comment was in reference to me just knocking out a tight barrel, like out of a BCM upper. Or one I had installed via shimming. That was mostly from before I discovered I can heat the receiver end with my torch.
BTW, just for the record since I didn't make it clear. I've never glued/LT'd a barrel into a receiver. My dowel comment was in reference to me just knocking out a tight barrel, like out of a BCM upper. Or one I had installed via shimming. That was mostly from before I discovered I can heat the receiver end with my torch.