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Posted: 7/3/2006 4:08:42 PM EDT
| I know you get what you pay for, but I was just curious as to if anyone has had one of these lowers by essential arms. They are cheap at $77. Anybody have any input on the quality and compatibility of these lowers. Here is the link to their website. http://www.essentialarms.com/forged%20lower%20receiver.htm Thanks for any help. |
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I had one years ago, which I traded off, and bought three more last year. I have a LEO friend that has one, and over the years have seen a lot of them. Not once have I seen any functioning problems related to Essential lowers. The worst thing is that many don't like the old gray finish. At one time EA offered matching gray upper receivers. They offer them with an optional black finish now. |
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I just helped a bunch of my friends do a group build of "M4's" on EA and Mega recievers. I ordered the EA recievers with the optional "Tuff coat" finish so they'd match the Model-1 kits we were using and they went together better than the Mega's did. I've built alot of guns on Mega's and like them fine but the essential arms seemed to need less cleaning-up of holes to get pins into.    I think this guy was pretty happy with his new Essential Arms lower.  |
That looks alot like the 15 I bought from them. I thought they were still a bit "Grey" (Almost SP1 looking) but they ended-up matching great with the Model-1 kits we used and M1 kits are pretty dark. They went together pretty nice too. |
Indeed, I ended up keeping my 2 Prebans just because of trips to see the family in NY, or heaven forbid I return there to work. I will call him when I get back stateside. I didnt see an email address listed on the webpage or I would have already tried to establish coms. |
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I'm a little confused by their website. It says that they are available in OD, black, grey toughcoat and black toughcoat. Does this mean that the OD and the black are anodized? Is the toughcoat applied over the anodizing? They do look like nice lowers at even nicer price. |
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