Need dust cover rod c clip
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Need dust cover rod c clip
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?
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Re: Need dust cover rod c clip
thankskokopelli wrote:-if not, Home Depot has them in a bag of 3 for like 50 cents...
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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?son of liberty wrote:this has happened to me 2 or 3 times
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I've never seen one come off.jackalo626 wrote: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?son of liberty wrote:this has happened to me 2 or 3 times
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Re: Need dust cover rod c clip
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.
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I have now and sol has as well. Maybe we are the minority but it happened.WLJ wrote:I've never seen one come off.jackalo626 wrote: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?son of liberty wrote:this has happened to me 2 or 3 times
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weld it lol
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RecoilSensitive wrote: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
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Good thing your are not because you have said it backwards.Rem700 wrote: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.
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Re: Need dust cover rod c clip
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.
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.
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