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Posted: 9/5/2010 6:34:13 PM EDT
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Its a Essential Arms RR that I use alot. The selector is stuck.
The first times I had problems it took trimming the spring to fix. The selector detent hole is wore, that is my only guess. A detent moves around in it a good bit. You can tell with visible inspection, and from feeling the lever. I need it fixed. |
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I want to plug and redrill the hole.
Tinkering with it seemed to fix the problem. In fact.. It is staying OFF safe until I get it fixed. Honestly I am scared to send the lower anyway. I need a promise of a quick return and would pay for the service to go as planned. |
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Contact m60joe he's email is [email protected]
He is very trustworthy but busy most of the time. He will give you a timeframe and keep his word if he decides to take the work. He will ship it back any way you want so be specfic. I always send him my m16 USPS Priority mail, registered with 15k insurance and signature required. I ask him to send it the same way back and it only cost around $40-45 each way. |
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Contact m60joe he's email is [email protected] He is very trustworthy but busy most of the time. He will give you a timeframe and keep his word if he decides to take the work. He will ship it back any way you want so be specfic. I always send him my m16 USPS Priority mail, registered with 15k insurance and signature required. I ask him to send it the same way back and it only cost around $40-45 each way. x2 My RR M16 just arrived at his place. It was $38 for $10K of insurance. |
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He will give you his number if he takes the work. He just dosent like giving it out since he's always busy. I dont doubt it a bit. The local class3's phone rings off the hook. He could literally stay on it all day> Not a bad scenario unless you work by yourself. If you have help, you have to pay them. I can see how it gets to be a chore of a job, and gets worse when you get chewed down on prices because of internet vendors and the general cheapskates. Not everyone you spend time talking to on the phone is a customer and time is valuable. Anyway I am looking at what needs to happen. I think a brass or steel pin (plug) needs to be milled out to hold a selector detent. The pin would be pressed into the lower. I am not sure, but the detent hole would need to be opened up for the pin. I would rather this happen instead of a custom size detent. The buffer detent hole is egged out too. I am having to keep a half circle shim in the front of it to keep it in place. Most likely others are too but I havent noticed. I have had the lower 2 years and fired well over 12k rounds. The trigger and sear have always been held by KNS pins. Nothing has changed on those holes. I was going to have it anodized colt grey in the future... I guess now is the time. |
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I have had the lower 2 years and fired well over 12k rounds. The trigger and sear have always been held by KNS pins. Nothing has changed on those holes. Cool I like hearing that, I do have a question, is the EA lower a cast receiver? just wondering. Cast. |
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You sure it isn't a problem with the selector switch? As in, the selector's detent divot was drilled too deep during manufacture, making the detent stick and lock the selector in position? 100% positive it is not a bad selector. Everyone I have mentioned this problem too, said just that. How am I sure... I have swapped the part out and gotten the same results. Also, you can visibly tell the hole is egged out when you compare the fit to a brand new lower (which, ironically cost the same as the repair) My first attempt to correct the problem involved fitting a detent with the selector, using a dyechem marker to check the contact surfaces. As of right now, the detent is being pushed to the side before the selector turns. The detent should only have up and down movement. It would be so nice to destroy this old lower and re stamp the serial # on a new one. Anyway... It is going to see Mr M60 joe even though funds are tight at the moment. I guess its time to sell some stuff at a loss on the EE 
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