USAF_Vet
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So as I was mounting the barrel to an upper this weekend, I got to thinking why there are no instructions for staking a barrel nut. It seems like it should be done, but nope.
I've had some barrel nuts that needed a shim to fall into the 30-80 foot pounds of torque range. Being out of shims, the barrel nut I installed just simply would not line up in that torque range, at all, not anywhere close.
I ended up using a different barrel nut, which lined up great and torqued properly, so crisis averted, but it got me to thinking that if I had no other choice, could I have staked it into place? Google yielded nothing, neither did my old M-16 manual/ training/ reference book.
How would one go about staking a barrel nut, or is it something that shouldn't be recommended?
I've had some barrel nuts that needed a shim to fall into the 30-80 foot pounds of torque range. Being out of shims, the barrel nut I installed just simply would not line up in that torque range, at all, not anywhere close.
I ended up using a different barrel nut, which lined up great and torqued properly, so crisis averted, but it got me to thinking that if I had no other choice, could I have staked it into place? Google yielded nothing, neither did my old M-16 manual/ training/ reference book.
How would one go about staking a barrel nut, or is it something that shouldn't be recommended?