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Posted: 1/13/2007 3:14:31 PM EDT
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Was just wondering if it was normal to feel some roughness or gritiness when pulling the charging handle through the buffer spring/tube. I have a stag ar with a mil-spec buffer tube and it feels kinda rough...I would assume this is just normal operation? thanks |
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is it a new rifle ? it'll get aluminum flakes, paint chips , and factory crud in it the first few clips until it all brakes in. Also if it is a new rifle, make sure they don't have any of that dirty damn red grease in the tube... Every damn buffer tube I've seen or used always has heavy grease in there..Builds up into sludge then eventually bakes and turns hard and works to the back of the tube.. |
| Hose it out with brake cleaner or aerosol rem-oil and if you're not in a dusty/gritty place lightly re-oil spring and bearing surfaces of the buffer. Look down in the tube while you have the buffer and spring out of there, it may just be defective from the factory (rough surface, if so I would try to send it back for a new tube). Pull the bolt/carrier and charging handle out of the upper and use one of those gun cleaning brushes to clean the grooves in the receiver the charging handle rides in (that could be the problem too). |
Who puts grease in there from the factory? Just curious, never got one of those before. |
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My new 6920 had white grease on the bolt and on the gas port, and around the barrel at the reciever. I think it is used to seat the barrel more easily and just gets pressed out all over stuff. It cleans right off. New rifles sound rough for awhile. Does yours run? Any problems? The charging handle wears with normal use, and even bend a little after some time. |
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Think about it. The bearing surfaces on the bolt carrier are rough parkerizing, and the bearing surfaces in the upper reciever are rough anodization. These two have to be smoothed out for smooth operation. Has very little to do with the buffer spring. The wear on the charging handle is a result of you pulling on it unevenly. Not a big deal unless you keep it up. |
Stag greases up their buffers and springs with white lithium grease. I wiped it all out. [Butthead]He said "clips." Heh heh heh. Clips. Yeah![/Butthead] |
Fine , I'll say "Mags" you damn dirty grammar nazi you... I bet you think of your instruction manual as a bible. |
| This is funny. All these manufacturers, including Colt, supply new guns with grease in them at various locations, and the geniuses here methodically clean it all out. Guys - it's in there to make sure critical parts stay lubed during the storage, transportation and break-in period. Not every body breaks down a new gun and cleans and lubes it before firing. Most new owners just take it out and shoot it. If it's been floating around in a dealer's gun show trailer for awhile, it might be bone dry and rusty if it wasn't for that grease. |
| well duh... the grease is there to keep parts from rusting and welding together... but you are supposed to clean it out before shooting... The instruction manual worshiper above me could probably tell you this. they all say clean gun before shooting. Hell Ruger 10/22s have some kind of hard blue film in there you have to scrub out |
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