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Ok, I have a birdcage flash hider and bought it and lock washers from brownells. I'm using a tapco ar tool and torque wrench. The TM says 10-15 ft lbs and I pushed the lock washer over the barrel before I hit torque specs. Used another washer and backed the torque on the wrench down to 10# and it still isn't hitting torque before the split washer starts spreading.
Am I doing something wrong here?
jd1
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If you have the peel washer, pull the washer first and spin the FS on by hand until it kisses the barrel shoulder!!!!! This will tell you if the FS has been threaded correctly or not to begin with. If the FS will not spin on by hand to touch the barrel shoulder, then the FS needs to be replaced with one that is fully threaded correctly.
Now back to the peel washer, being its a bunch of thinner layered washers that are lightly solder together to make on thicker washer.
So on that now start with the FS spun all the way to the shoulder, then back the FS off to the correct index. This will give you an idea of how many layers of the washers need to be peeled off to be begin with (use a exactor knife to peel off layers but leave it a couple of layers thick). From there, you want to peel off more washer layers until you you have the FS around 11:00 with the washer in place, then it should be less than 15lbs of torque to index the FS correctly.
As for the crush washer, no torque wrench needed. Just spin the FS on by hand, then rotate the FS to index. The FS will hold the needed torque as it being tightened less than 1 turn of the FS, but on the down side, the crush washer is a one time use only!!!!