OlGunner,
Thank you for your excellent photos and comments. The spacing on yours is correct. Another thing to look for is chrome plating over the notches. Some people have machined the notches into chrome slabside carriers and sold them as originals. If you look at the notches carefully you can see if they were cut in after chroming. The notches should also be chrome plated. Thanks again. -W

On another note about his 604 ad - I thought all the original 604 uppers had the notch under the ejection port to line up with the mag well on the lower receiver. Is that not the case? His ad shows his has no notch (like those found on the 606 upper?).

Only the early ones, that's a very late upper from what I can tell.

Yeah, and then there's that small detail. I'm with ya. Apparently I wasn't covering that aspect in my comments, but I am following along. I promise.
And like I said, I'm in no way trying to defend the guy, and I agree with everyone in this thread, (that's why I keep coming back and checking it), but whenever I go to the EE and look at whatever, one of the first things I look at is the sellers feedback rating.
And his is pretty good. I can see where one could easily fall prey to these deals if they're not paying attention.
Threads like this could open some peoples eyes, if only they read them. And it's great that all you guys are posting info and pics to detail the differences between what is and what isn't the real deal.
I have been doing the AR thing for a long time, but I admit I know very little about the true retro stuff. I hang out in this section more than any other, and I'm learning a lot!

Not a YM...



http://youngmanufacturing.net/bolts-and-carriers/carriers/complete/ym-standard-bolt-carrier-complete-chrome-or-phosphate.html

All the Young Manufacturing carriers seem to be missing the front two forward assist notches. The carrier in question has the notches all the way to the "cutout" as it should be.

........and as someone who stated in this thread about free market, blah blah blah and he has to know it isn't what he claims it is to be fraudulent, I'm starting to believe it has to be fraud if he's being told otherwise about his items..............and if that's the case, which would seem to be so, than the mods need to lower the hammer.

Must've missed that one.

I've been seeing these KAC carbine rails (like the ones shown in the link^^) for sell on the cheap side at the last few gunshows I've been to. I'm not really in to them but in the back of my mind I keep wondering if in twenty years I'll be kicking myself for not picking a few up. You know..like the Sten parts kits and L1A1/FAL kits...and those nice Remington Rand 1911's returned from overseas twenty some odd years ago.

ETA: I apologize for getting off course.

I'll apologize ahead of time for continuing that.

If you wanted to make a few dollars I might know a guy that would buy one for a little more than on the cheap side.

Looks like he found his sucker on the receiver. Hopefully he was able to talk him down on price a bit.

Buyer's first post, Feb. 2015 join date.

Did someone really buy that?

I don't think I would call that one a holy grail. Maybe my standards are a little higher.