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Posted: 1/24/2015 1:41:52 AM EDT
 I repent to the Retro Gods!
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Posted: 1/24/2015 1:57:27 AM EDT
[#1]
Bigger hammer is just a figure of speech, Dude!
Just kidding. How did it happen? I have heard that some teardrops just seem to have a weak spot. |
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Posted: 1/24/2015 7:23:03 AM EDT
[#2]
I feel your pain. I still have one broken like that in my parts junks bin.
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Posted: 1/24/2015 7:51:10 AM EDT
[#3]
How on earth ?
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Posted: 1/24/2015 8:28:37 AM EDT
[#4]
IM me your address and I'll drop one in the mail.
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Posted: 1/24/2015 9:25:40 AM EDT
[#5]
What am I looking at? Seriously, I plead complete ignorance, but I'm interested.
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Posted: 1/24/2015 9:33:41 AM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
What am I looking at? Seriously, I plead complete ignorance, but I'm interested. Oblong forward assist with the tab ear broken off. |
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Posted: 1/24/2015 10:03:56 AM EDT
[#7]
Thank you. See it now, the punch threw me.
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Posted: 1/24/2015 10:22:46 AM EDT
[#8]
THAT is why they are round now!
No repentance needed! It happened so many times it was redesigned! I of course prefer teardrops but I always wondered WHY they were teardrop shaped instead of round to begin with! Simpler and cheaper to produce a round one. Anyone know what the thought process was? I KNOW the forward assist was an Army requirement thrown in to piss the designers off but I'm just wondering about the shape. Tough "break" Tumerboy! 
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Posted: 1/24/2015 10:52:48 AM EDT
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Finish it off on a disc sander, touch up with cold blue and tell everyone you have a prototype extra small round F/A, sell on the EE for $75
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Posted: 1/24/2015 10:52:59 AM EDT
[#10]
Thanks for the offer Peter_Sam, but I was actually trying to remove the plunger/flappy bit to install in a big head assist I got for my 723.
I know it has happened before, and it is why they changed it, but I still feel like a moron. Anyway, but head is installed now. I'll claim that as a victory. |
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Posted: 1/24/2015 11:11:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
THAT is why they are round now!
No repentance needed! It happened so many times it was redesigned! I of course prefer teardrops but I always wondered WHY they were teardrop shaped instead of round to begin with! Simpler and cheaper to produce a round one. Anyone know what the thought process was? I KNOW the forward assist was an Army requirement thrown in to piss the designers off but I'm just wondering about the shape. Tough "break" Tumerboy! Funny enough, the prototypes were round but the patent has the tear drop style. More surface area to hit maybe? |
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Posted: 1/24/2015 11:17:00 AM EDT
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was that an original ,or a DPMS style? looks dpms'ie
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Posted: 1/24/2015 12:47:06 PM EDT
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It was off a Deimaco C7 upper.
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Posted: 1/24/2015 1:59:45 PM EDT
[#14]
Ive done that.. I was being super man and hit the forward assist on a rock or something.
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Posted: 1/24/2015 6:46:35 PM EDT
[#15]
Bummer dude.
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Posted: 1/24/2015 6:56:30 PM EDT
[#16]
Well, at least it's still useable until you get another. Brownells had teardrop Bushmaster FA's for 5 bucks a couple days ago, although that probably wouldn't be very clone correct
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Posted: 1/24/2015 7:34:39 PM EDT
[#17]
That sucks man.
Also, In before the title change. |
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Posted: 1/24/2015 8:28:42 PM EDT
[#18]
Happens to the best of us. I have one too.
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Posted: 1/24/2015 11:51:31 PM EDT
[#19]
BFPU build?
~Augee |
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Posted: 1/25/2015 12:14:52 AM EDT
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BFPU build?
~Augee Always the optimist. - - -
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Posted: 1/25/2015 12:17:58 AM EDT
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HA! Good call Augee, but the whole point was to swap it with the big head FA, which is now installed. I'll save it though, might come in handy for something down the line.
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Posted: 1/25/2015 3:35:59 AM EDT
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Wasn't someone here doing a 'been to hell and back' GM build? Maybe they could use it.
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