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Posted: 1/9/2010 4:55:39 PM EDT
| I was putting together a lower today and the selector is loose as hell. It works but it is VERY loose. What could it be? How can i fix it? THANKS!! |
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I ran into the same problem...it turned out to be the pistol grip...follow me for a minute...
The Detent goes in pointy side first to engage the selector and place tension against it to provide resistance to the selector...I fumbled around with mine doing the same way...measured the spring to make sure it was long enough, blew out the hole in receiver thinking it was binding, clean as a whistle...then started looking at the depth of the hole in the pistl grip the spring goes into...took out another pistol grip and the spring went in about 3/16ths less than the one I was using, so on me pistol grip the spring was sitting lower in the hole...therefor it exerted less pressure on the detent...took a HD Q-tip and an exacto knife...cut about 3/16th of an inch of Q-Tip stick and put a drop of oil on it and slid it down into the spring hole on the Pistol Grip...it was now protruding the same as my other grips...re-install and tighten the grip down...NOW I HAD VERY POSITIVE RESISTANCE on the selector...nice crisp movement and engagement...problem solved...I'm pretty sure the hole was drilled/molded too deep on some pistol grips... Beach |
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I ran into the same problem...it turned out to be the pistol grip...follow me for a minute... The Detent goes in pointy side first to engage the selector and place tension against it to provide resistance to the selector...I fumbled around with mine doing the same way...measured the spring to make sure it was long enough, blew out the hole in receiver thinking it was binding, clean as a whistle...then started looking at the depth of the hole in the pistl grip the spring goes into...took out another pistol grip and the spring went in about 3/16ths less than the one I was using, so on me pistol grip the spring was sitting lower in the hole...therefor it exerted less pressure on the detent...took a HD Q-tip and an exacto knife...cut about 3/16th of an inch of Q-Tip stick and put a drop of oil on it and slid it down into the spring hole on the Pistol Grip...it was now protruding the same as my other grips...re-install and tighten the grip down...NOW I HAD VERY POSITIVE RESISTANCE on the selector...nice crisp movement and engagement...problem solved...I'm pretty sure the hole was drilled/molded too deep on some pistol grips... Beach CAA pistol grip? |
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took a HD Q-tip and an exacto knife...cut about 3/16th of an inch of Q-Tip stick and put a drop of oil on it and slid it down into the spring hole on the Pistol Grip I would have gone to hardware store and see if I could have found a longer spring. |
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