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Posted: 5/1/2007 1:24:50 PM EDT
| This is probably common knowledge for several people here, but is there a correct and incorrect way to orient the crush washer when installing a phantom? |
- what I am asking is does it matter which way the crush washer is installed.
| Randall, have you ever worked on an Armalite M-4 style barrel? I have tried everything I can think of to get the factory A2 flash hider off of mine, but it will not budge. This is the first rifle I have owned that does not have any kind of washer between the barrel and the rear of the flash hider. I contacted Armalite and they said that if it had been permanently attached it would have a somewhat noticeable circle on the bottom of the flash hider where the pin hole had been welded. Is it possible that they may have pressed this thing on? |
I would have to take a look at it, but once in a while, you get a really tight one. If they absolutely won't move, I spin it in the lathe and machine off the muzzle device. That will take it off no matter how it was permanent attached. |
Armalite does one hell of a good job hiding the pin. I had to grind a bunch away to even get a glimpse of the outline. They use welding rod, but it is tight in the drilled hole. 
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I have never seen an Armalite factory barrel with an A2 flash hider that was permanent attached. This would have to be a 16" barrel as an A2 flash hider will not "make length" when installed on a 14.5" barrel. Either he has a 16" barrel with a stuck A2, or he has something else entirely, but Armalite did not do it... |
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