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Posted: 3/11/2021 5:16:40 PM EDT
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Try a drop or two of oil and try to work it with a punch or paper clip.
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Posted: 3/11/2021 5:49:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Try a drop or two of oil and try to work it with a punch or paper clip. Above to start with,   Hence detent pin is retained by a roll pin, but roll pin is in a blind channel, so getting the roll pin out so you can remove the detent and spring to clean them, and the channel, can be a PITA instead. So attack plan if you are trying to remove the roll pin, small drill to drill the ID of the roll pin for its lenght to lessen it spring tension to channel and open up the center of it a bit, then small threading tap, to tap the center of roll pin without expanding it and blocks channel, then use the tap or long screw to pull it out of the detent as you catch the detent and spring. As for best guess of the problem, roll pin channel burs into the main detent channel that is binding up the detent. |
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Posted: 3/12/2021 10:04:01 AM EDT
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Is that roll pin the same size on any dust cover and if so, what size is it?
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Posted: 3/14/2021 11:45:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is that roll pin the same size on any dust cover and if so, what size is it? Hopefully the chart in this link is accurate. Scroll down to "Ejection port hinge pin". http://www.biggerhammer.net/ar15/pins.html |
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Posted: 3/16/2021 5:40:01 PM EDT
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I ended up pressing the stuck one out of the printed dust cover and replaced it with another one. Bent the dust covers, but they bent back easily enough.
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Posted: 3/17/2021 4:32:25 PM EDT
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All is well now?
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Posted: 3/20/2021 2:54:54 PM EDT
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Yes, thanks.
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Posted: 3/20/2021 6:09:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is that roll pin the same size on any dust cover and if so, what size is it? MS16562-95 or 1/16 x 3/16 |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 6:11:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hopefully the chart in this link is accurate. Scroll down to "Ejection port hinge pin". http://www.biggerhammer.net/ar15/pins.html Ejection port hinge pin = 0.125" x 3.850" That little roll pin is not four inches long. |
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Posted: 3/21/2021 1:11:55 PM EDT
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Good catch.
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Posted: 4/2/2021 12:38:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ejection port hinge pin = 0.125" x 3.850" That little roll pin is not four inches long. Nor is it a hinge. |
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Posted: 4/5/2021 2:09:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Nor is it a hinge. I think the item listed is not the roll pin that keeps the dust cover detent in place, but the hinge the dust cover swings on. |
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Posted: 4/6/2021 8:40:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think the item listed is not the roll pin that keeps the dust cover detent in place, but the hinge the dust cover swings on. You reckon? Believe that's been made most clear. |
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