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Posted: 8/22/2009 10:15:17 PM EDT
| Just exactly how do I properly stake a castle nut? Ive searched all the forums and cant find anything... |
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Best method I read about a couple of years ago on this forum that worked very well for me was the following.
1. First drill a very small hole on the backplate that centers up with one of the castle nut slots. Do not drill very deep just enough for a center punch to firmly locate on the backplate 2. Repeat for the second castle nut slot. Of the three slots on the castle nut two should lineup on the backplate. 3. Using a center punch strike in the hole you drilled and the metal should deform into the castle nut slot. Not much force is needed to do this. |
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Inexpensive punches readily available.
Prick punch. Center punch. All you need to do is displace a small amount of metal from the end plate into the recess in the castle nut. You can start with the sharp prick punch and follow up with a center punch if you wish. You can even touch up the job with a dab of cold bluing if you want. This is just one way of doing it. 
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| Vibration can loosen the nut over time. For a lot of shooters, it will never happen. If you want to ensure it won't come off unless you were to take a wrench to it, stake it. The stakes usually break pretty easy with a wrench, a few light taps on the wrench with a small hammer can coax it off as well. |
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Seems to me Loctite would be enough. A chemical solution over a simple mechanical (and superior) solution? Not for me. The stakes break loose if you don't go Paul Bunyan on the damned thing. Bend a little metal. That's all! We're not splitting atoms here, Jethros! w00t! |
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Looks pretty nice! But how do you take it off once youve done that? Do you guys really find it unscrewing itself? I'd like to know also. It's not a piece that really has to come off. There seems to be a perceived need on here for people to be able to swap and given piece of equipment at any given time. Pick and endplate that works for you, stake the nut and be done with it. In the case that is HAS to come off it can. I left one unstaked and rand it in a class to see if it would come loose. It did. Approx 1500 rounds or so between some range time and the class to loosen it up. A staked castle nut is in the proper specs for a reason. Just like a staked carrier key. They didn't arbitrarily come up with this stuff. |
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