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Posted: 3/6/2010 8:05:31 AM EDT
| YES I KNOW, PMAGS, USGI, Lancer are better, and I have these. There is some very cheap pricing on Thermold, like 4 bucks a mag for 20's, so any good? |
| I picked up a couple of the $4.99 ones from CDNN. All of them has the feed lips trimmed improperly and wouldn't hold more than 5 rounds before most, or all of them came shooting out. The feed lips are cut at an angle and there is very little holding the shoulder of the round. A complete waste of cash for me. |
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Anyone have a 30rd one that they don't want? All I need is the mag body and floorplate. The feed lips I don't care about either. I am needing a cheap one to chop up for my AR57. I just can't do it to a Pmag.
Let me know how much and I will pay shipping also. Thanks in advance. 
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I bought ten of the "Master Moulder" Thermold 20 rounders in 1994, a few months before the ban. I wanted them to use as range mags. I figured I'd take one, use it until the first FTF, then move on to number two. THOUSANDS of rounds later––still on number one. I'd say I got my money's worth––and counting.
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I had 7 old 1988 dated 30 rd Thermolds that I put thousands of rounds thru with my issued M16A2. This were issued to us in Bad Tolz, Germany along with some plastic stripper clips and guides. The stripper clips were good for burning in cold wet weather. Had one that cracked and split down the spine for about an inch. It would still function but only used it for a range mag (marked). Still have 6 squirreled away but haven't used them since the mid 90s as my personnel AR had a SGW/Oly lower that wouldn't take them. They do fit in my newer Stag lower. But have butt loads of USGI, HKs and PMags so they sit in the footlocker with all the other mags.
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I had a few in the mid - late 90's. Two had feelips that cracked and broke off. One happened as I was about to insert it into the magwell....28 rounds arced about 5 feet into into the air, then rained back down upon me. Well, they have good springs, I guess... |
| For you guys who have 30 rnd Thermolds, I just scored 2 dozen new pre-ban USA made Thermold mags. I know a magpul anti-tilt follower will not fit as a direct replacement, but can one be easily modified or can the USGI green followers be easily modified to fit? They have black followers in them now. Thanks in advance. |
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I picked up a couple of the $4.99 ones from CDNN. All of them has the feed lips trimmed improperly and wouldn't hold more than 5 rounds before most, or all of them came shooting out. The feed lips are cut at an angle and there is very little holding the shoulder of the round. A complete waste of cash for me. I'd seen those. I guess there junk, thank's for posting before I pissed away $$$$$$! |
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I bought ten of the "Master Moulder" Thermold 20 rounders in 1994, a few months before the ban. I bought some at the same time too. Unfortunately, I had a few instances of a cartridge not feeding out of these magazines. I had the same problem with some Ramline translucent magazines. So, I replaced the springs in the Ramline magazines with regular AR15 magazine springs and put the Ramline springs in the "Master Moulder" magazines. After that, all were reliable. 
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For you guys who have 30 rnd Thermolds, I just scored 2 dozen new pre-ban USA made Thermold mags. I know a magpul anti-tilt follower will not fit as a direct replacement, but can one be easily modified or can the USGI green followers be easily modified to fit? They have black followers in them now. Thanks in advance. Should not be necessary. My 30s have never missed a beat. |
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For you guys who have 30 rnd Thermolds, I just scored 2 dozen new pre-ban USA made Thermold mags. I know a magpul anti-tilt follower will not fit as a direct replacement, but can one be easily modified or can the USGI green followers be easily modified to fit? They have black followers in them now. Thanks in advance. Should not be necessary. My 30s have never missed a beat. Correct. There's nothing wrong with Thermold followers. |
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I had a few in the mid - late 90's. Two had feelips that cracked and broke off. One happened as I was about to insert it into the magwell....28 rounds arced about 5 feet into into the air, then rained back down upon me. I had one that did that too. It also had a maple leaf on the side of it. |
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I had a few in the mid - late 90's. Two had feelips that cracked and broke off. One happened as I was about to insert it into the magwell....28 rounds arced about 5 feet into into the air, then rained back down upon me. I had one that did that too. It also had a maple leaf on the side of it. I read on here that the Canadians used a different polymer. |
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For you guys who have 30 rnd Thermolds, I just scored 2 dozen new pre-ban USA made Thermold mags. I know a magpul anti-tilt follower will not fit as a direct replacement, but can one be easily modified or can the USGI green followers be easily modified to fit? They have black followers in them now. Thanks in advance. Should not be necessary. My 30s have never missed a beat. Correct. There's nothing wrong with Thermold followers. Thanks guys. You always hear about switching the followers to anti-tilt in the aluminum mags, just didn't know if it was necessary in these. |
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I picked up a couple of the $4.99 ones from CDNN. All of them has the feed lips trimmed improperly and wouldn't hold more than 5 rounds before most, or all of them came shooting out. The feed lips are cut at an angle and there is very little holding the shoulder of the round. A complete waste of cash for me. You have too load the mag fully then the mag expands to hold the rounds correctly. That is why I just use them for range mags but they have also been 100% for me so for 4.99 I ordered 15 more. They work good for me I just use them for shooting prone or off a bench. |
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