Need dust cover rod c clip

[jackalo626]

Cleaned my rifle from the last RWI course and saw that my dust cover rod was backing out towards the rear of the rifle. Anyone have one I can buy instead of buying a .30 part and paying $5 shipping?

[kokopelli]

-if not, Home Depot has them in a bag of 3 for like 50 cents...

[guncrank1]

or J-Town hardware

[jackalo626]

-if not, Home Depot has them in a bag of 3 for like 50 cents...

thanks

[son of liberty]

this has happened to me 2 or 3 times

[jackalo626]

this has happened to me 2 or 3 times

Thanks for sharing. I rarely shoot and even less when I do its my AR's so I guess I didn't know it was common. Any body else have this happen often or know of a permanent solution? Maybe crimp the c clip a bit to make it tougher to come off or other tricks?

[ssracer]

Haven't had one go missing on me yet.

[rustynuts]

Haven't had one go missing on me yet.

Neither have I.

[WLJ]

this has happened to me 2 or 3 times

Thanks for sharing. I rarely shoot and even less when I do its my AR's so I guess I didn't know it was common. Any body else have this happen often or know of a permanent solution? Maybe crimp the c clip a bit to make it tougher to come off or other tricks?

I've never seen one come off.

[rustynuts]

Seems like if you tried to crimp it, it would end up giving you worse results.

[Rem700]

if i were cranky i would probably tell you its a tolerance issue. 1 item (clamp or rod) was on the low end and one on the high end of tolerance. maybe swap both.

[jackalo626]

this has happened to me 2 or 3 times

Thanks for sharing. I rarely shoot and even less when I do its my AR's so I guess I didn't know it was common. Any body else have this happen often or know of a permanent solution? Maybe crimp the c clip a bit to make it tougher to come off or other tricks?

I've never seen one come off.

I have now and sol has as well. Maybe we are the minority but it happened.

[RecoilSensitive]

weld it lol

[son of liberty]

weld it lol

the first one it happened on (several years ago) I was at a class and had no back up. The rifle would still work without it , but I just bent the end with my multi tool and it bound it in and still allowed the dust cover to work and the pin wont back out, its still going 15 years later. If they offered one that had a welded keeper or machined that way, its all I would run.

edit, it is a colt

[guncrank1]

if i were cranky i would probably tell you its a tolerance issue. 1 item (clamp or rod) was on the low end and one on the high end of tolerance. maybe swap both.

Good thing your are not because you have said it backwards.

[guncrank1]

As to a machined rod
The rod is so small in diameter that to have a threaded nut , just too small.

A e clip is much easier
And yes I have some of the clips but so does a hardware store or a box store.

[Bama]

I plan on trying these out

http://www.strikeindustries.com/shop/in ... cover.html

[jackalo626]

I plan on trying these out

http://www.strikeindustries.com/shop/in ... cover.html

Uh oh new gadget time!