AR help

[BadgerLB]

In the barrel or gas block? That's a bunch of crap either way.

Barrel. if it were the gas block id just order a new block and call it good... but how do you forget to drill a hole in the barrel? How exactly DOES that happen? .. anyway... I'm gonna be a good sport about this... maybe they'll upgrade me to a middy nitride or something.

 

[SDarkRage]

Barrel. if it were the gas block id just order a new block and call it good... but how do you forget to drill a hole in the barrel? How exactly DOES that happen? .. anyway... I'm gonna be a good sport about this... maybe they'll upgrade me to a middy nitride or something.

Yeah that's a definite WTF?! Course you could always use it as a dedicated .22 upper...

 

[BadgerLB]

Yeah... but some how I don't think they'll let me keep this one and ship me a new one... now... if they do that's exactly what I'll be doing, I'm still confused as to why they wouldn't drill the damn hole... The bad part is its a nitrided barrel so they'll probably end up throwing it out anyway (I think I read that the nitriding process makes the barrel too hard to drill back out). Anyway, at least this one wasn't my fault, my build was fine, it didn't blow up, and for what its worth the damn thing was super accurate in bolt action mode.

 

[Cue]

I would get a can of gun scrubber and pour some down the gas tube. Then run a patch down the barrel and see if it is wet. I would be that is just misaligned.

 

[ez bake]

I would get a can of gun scrubber and pour some down the gas tube. Then run a patch down the barrel and see if it is wet. I would be that is just misaligned.

Yeah - did you remove the FSB?

 

[Shadowrider]

Barrel. if it were the gas block id just order a new block and call it good... but how do you forget to drill a hole in the barrel? How exactly DOES that happen? .. anyway... I'm gonna be a good sport about this... maybe they'll upgrade me to a middy nitride or something.

With automated equipment it could be that the drill broke (it's a really small drill bit) and the machine cycled several before it was caught. And they missed one or more barrels when taking them out of the "finished station".

If doing it on manual machinery, it could be as simple as the drill broke, and the machinist/operator got distracted and set one in the finished pile that wasn't actually finished when they noticed that the drill was broken. I've seen many cases of stuff like this in 20+ years of working in a machine shop. Regardless, it's a definite QC miss and they should make it right for you.

 

[BadgerLB]

Yeah - did you remove the FSB?

Si... pulled it to the brake... no hole... It's marked though.. If I were a gambler I could probably do it myself but again it's nitrided so I don't think I'm gonna roll those dice.

 

[BadgerLB]

With automated equipment it could be that the drill broke (it's a really small drill bit) and the machine cycled several before it was caught. And they missed one or more barrels when taking them out of the "finished station".

If doing it on manual machinery, it could be as simple as the drill broke, and the machinist/operator got distracted and set one in the finished pile that wasn't actually finished when they noticed that the drill was broken. I've seen many cases of stuff like this in 20+ years of working in a machine shop. Regardless, it's a definite QC miss and they should make it right for you.

Fair enough... I'm gonna be a good sport about it... maybe they'll make it right by swapping me for one of their new fluted middies...

 

[Nighthawk]

They are only human, things happen, I am sure they will make it right.

 

[ez bake]

Si... pulled it to the brake... no hole... It's marked though.. If I were a gambler I could probably do it myself but again it's nitrided so I don't think I'm gonna roll those dice.

Damn that sucks man.

Good luck with their QC - let us know what happens.