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Posted: 9/15/2004 7:34:53 AM EDT
| OK, one of my LEO buddies has an Armalite, with that noisy obnoxious brake. How is this monstrosity removed? Is it pressed on? Screwed on and pinned? He would like to replace it with a normal A2 FH. |
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Pre-2003 rifles are threaded, pinned and welded. 2003/2004 rifles have a pressed on and pinned brake as I understand it. I removed the brake on an older Armalite AR15... milled the brake away to expose the pin, removed it, then cut the brake on opposite ends to release it. It was threaded on to tight to simply unscrew. |
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Where on brake is the pin? On bottom? Nevermind, found an Armalite post on this. www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=62&t=201539 I assume this applies to the AR15 models, too. |
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What i am hearing then is that the barrel on my AR-15 is not threaded. The brake is pressed on. Perhaps i am in denial. But would you kindly concurr? The way the bolt side of the brake is flattened on both sides makes me optimistic that perhaps it is threaded, in that it was made as such to accomodate a wrench. Image links below. images5.theimagehosting.com/PICT0144.jpg images5.theimagehosting.com/PICT0145.jpg Thanks in advance. |
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I used the split and pry method...worked perfectly. Of course I had an older barrel with the pin on the bottom going straight up into the bottom of the barrel. It was a 1/4" size dot rather than the pin running out both sides of the brake. Check this, it might be helpful. ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=62&t=201048 Good Luck |
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Thanks, I guess what i need is someone that can definitively say thet my Armalite barrel is threaded, or the muzzle brake has peen pressed on. Photos here again if anyway may know: images5.theimagehosting.com/PICT0144.jpg images5.theimagehosting.com/PICT0145.jpg |
Sorry to say, but there are no threads under there. 
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