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Posted: 12/28/2007 8:32:28 PM EDT
I am trying to remove the ejector, because I have this need to take things apart. I have a schuster ejector tool and all the punches one could want, I have used progressively heavier hammers but I can't get the roll pin to move. Before I get a sledge hammer what could I be doing wrong or is there a secret kept deep in the conspiracy files.  
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What if those don't work? My solution was a phone call to ADCO with credit card in hand. A piece of blown primer from some Guat surplus ammo screwed up my ejector. A gunsmith familiar with ARs working at it with a roll pin punch/bolt in a vice couldn't get it to budge. In exasperation, I finally sucked it up and bought an entirely new bolt. If there were some way to get fix it, that'd be a great spare right there. At least it was only a $50 part instead of the whole gun being wrecked by the ammo. |
As a last-ditch resort, maybe soaking it in sweet's 7.62 or something similarly agressive for an hour or 2 could dissolve the brass or copper or whatever that worked it's way in and gummed things up? Don't do this and say it's my fault if you tear it up, but I would try that before I bought a new bolt. If you mess it up, you were going to buy a new one anyways. |
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I gave up and took it to a local smith that has bailed me out in the past. All it took was a bigger hammer. There were brass shavings behind the ejector and some in the area were the pin engages the ejector. A previous post recommended a soak is sweet's 7.62, I'll have to remember that in the future. |
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