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Posted: 4/13/2011 2:49:11 PM EDT
| I apoligize if this seems like common sense but it's my first build and I really don't want to screw this up. I've seen alot of different information and advice but nothing enough to make me feel confident that I'm doing this right. I just received my battle comp so what exactly are the steps to install correctly? Do I just oil it up good, hand tighten it against the crush washer, and then tighten a little farther until the emblem lines up at 6:00? Only gunsmith I can locate in Harrisburg that will do this wants $75. That seems pretty extreme if it's as simple as what I just stated? |
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Quoted: Is that you're way of saying that's all there is to it? Just crank it through to 6:00 after butting up against the washer and call it a job well done? They were going to charge me $75 bucks for that! Thats what Im saying, in the defense of the gunsmith, well I dont really have one. Its really that simple though, I know I was the same way. I knew I knew how to build an upper but was afraid that I was missing something. That it couldnt possibly be that easy. If you do what you typed youre good to go. |
| I might have missed it but the only instruction set that I could find at Battle Comp was that it was recommended that a professional gunsmith do the installation. That's a good point though.....I have seen a few posts across the web about using loctite on compensators. |
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Quoted: I might have missed it but the only instruction set that I could find at Battle Comp was that it was recommended that a professional gunsmith do the installation. That's a good point though.....I have seen a few posts across the web about using loctite on compensators. You see things like Rockset used with shim kits, but I havent seen anything like that mentioned with the BC. Its also a suppressor mount thing more often than not. |
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My Battle Comp 2.0, dunno if yours is a 2.0, came with specific instructions to use Rocksett and a shim kit.
It did not come with a standard crush washer like one that would be used with a standard A2 brake. I searched around and I guess typically Rocksett is used for suppressor applications along with the shims. I guess the thought is not as much "adjusting" or turning should be required to line up the brake correctly, just enough to torque it down within spec. The crush washer enables you to keep turning if you have to turn another almost complete rotation to line up the brake (crushing the washer). At least this is what I concluded. With that said, I don't run a suppressor so I grabbed a crush washer I wasn't using and used it with my BC 2.0 as finger tight on mine meant I needed to rotate the thing almost all the way back around 360 degrees and the crush washer enabled me to do that... |
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My Battle Comp 2.0, dunno if yours is a 2.0, came with specific instructions to use Rocksett and a shim kit. It did not come with a standard crush washer like one that would be used with a standard A2 brake. I searched around and I guess typically Rocksett is used for suppressor applications along with the shims. I guess the thought is not as much "adjusting" or turning should be required to line up the brake correctly, just enough to torque it down within spec. The crush washer enables you to keep turning if you have to turn another almost complete rotation to line up the brake (crushing the washer). At least this is what I concluded. With that said, I don't run a suppressor so I grabbed a crush washer I wasn't using and used it with my BC 2.0 as finger tight on mine meant I needed to rotate the thing almost all the way back around 360 degrees and the crush washer enabled me to do that... i used a crush washer with my 2.0 also.... hand tightened to 9. i then slowly tightened to the 6 position. |
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crush washer would work.. but I would use a shim. I know that KAC & AAC brakes come with shims. Rockset is what you would use to really make sure that it won't be coming off that easily. Loctite would break down at high temps. The BC 1.0 comes with a crush washer. As does AAC's non suppressor mount muzzle brake. |
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crush washer would work.. but I would use a shim. I know that KAC & AAC brakes come with shims. Rockset is what you would use to really make sure that it won't be coming off that easily. Loctite would break down at high temps. The BC 1.0 comes with a crush washer. As does AAC's non suppressor mount muzzle brake. I have the AAC 51T brake so I know that comes with shims. |
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crush washer would work.. but I would use a shim. I know that KAC & AAC brakes come with shims. Rockset is what you would use to really make sure that it won't be coming off that easily. Loctite would break down at high temps. The BC 1.0 comes with a crush washer. As does AAC's non suppressor mount muzzle brake. I have the AAC 51T brake so I know that comes with shims. Most suppressor mounts do. Not recommended to use crush washers with suppressor mounts, I don't know the reasoning behind that though. I've got the Non Mount Single Chamber, came with a crush washer. |
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crush washer would work.. but I would use a shim. I know that KAC & AAC brakes come with shims. Rockset is what you would use to really make sure that it won't be coming off that easily. Loctite would break down at high temps. I don't plan on using a suppressor.....so crush washer got used. |
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