LooseGrouper
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I took my M1A SOCOM out shooting this weekend and when I got back home and started cleaning, I noticed that the nut on the top of the gas tube was loose. Since I'm new to the M1A game, I have some questions:
1) What is the proper torque for this thing? Can I hand-tighten, or do I need to use a wrench to get the proper effect?
2) Do they tend to shoot loose on a regular basis? If so, how loose can it get before it starts to affect reliability/safety? (just for reference, when I say that it was loose, I mean that it could be easily turned by hand. It was still seated flush, and no threads were visible)
3) Since the front sight is held stable by the gas tube/nut (on the SOCOM at least...don't think it applies to other models), to what degree does a loose nut affect zero? If you take the nut off to clean the gas piston, etc, does the sight reliably return to zero?
Thanks in advance for the help.
LG
1) What is the proper torque for this thing? Can I hand-tighten, or do I need to use a wrench to get the proper effect?
2) Do they tend to shoot loose on a regular basis? If so, how loose can it get before it starts to affect reliability/safety? (just for reference, when I say that it was loose, I mean that it could be easily turned by hand. It was still seated flush, and no threads were visible)
3) Since the front sight is held stable by the gas tube/nut (on the SOCOM at least...don't think it applies to other models), to what degree does a loose nut affect zero? If you take the nut off to clean the gas piston, etc, does the sight reliably return to zero?
Thanks in advance for the help.
LG
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