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Posted: 3/19/2009 9:57:11 AM EDT
| I am putting on a new upper. Do I reuse the rings or replace with new when attaching the barrel? |
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Does this mean that you're replacing the upper but using the existing bolt carrier group? If so, a greater concern might be the bolt itself; conventional wisdom here suggests that a new barrel and a used bolt are a bad combo; new bolt in an old barrel isn't a problem.
There is some question of checking any bolt change, but quality components are usually OK. Moon |
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I am putting on a new upper. Do I reuse the rings or replace with new when attaching the barrel? Dude; I don't get the connection between the gas rings and 'attaching the barrel'. Get somebody that knows something to help you work on the rifle before you blow yourself up. |
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I am putting on a new upper. Do I reuse the rings or replace with new when attaching the barrel? Dude; I don't get the connection between the gas rings and 'attaching the barrel'. Get somebody that knows something to help you work on the rifle before you blow yourself up. Is he ( are you ) maybe confusing the gas rings with the weld spring? Just askin.  It's the " attaching the barrel" part that threw me.
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I am putting on a new upper. Do I reuse the rings or replace with new when attaching the barrel? Dude; I don't get the connection between the gas rings and 'attaching the barrel'. Get somebody that knows something to help you work on the rifle before you blow yourself up. I agree...I wasn't awake enough this morning when I read this. I thought he was wanting to know how to know if the gas rings need to be replaced. |
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OlCrow, would you mind if I use your pic? You've summed it up a lot more clearly than I do whenever I try to explain it. ETA: I'd host it myself so as not to mooch your bandwidth  No problem, I picked it up somewhere online. I saved it because it's much easier than trying explain it. |
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