Posted: 8/26/2012 5:55:13 PM EDT
| I was fiddling around with my rifle and decided to try and simoly take off the bullet button. I go out of state (primarily to Utah) 6 or 7 times a year, and am going to start bringing my rifle up there, but would love to keep a regular mag catch up there and not have to use the bb when i go to utah. But, it appeared that my bullet button had a C-clip locking it on, so it couldnt be untwisted or unscrewed and then removed. Has anyone got any idea on how to take the c clip off. It mystifies me as to how it was even put on. |
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C-clips and E-clips just push on and off. This is called a C-clip but it is actually an E-clip. No matter, if it's one of these, just push it off. http://www.tedani.com/images/c-clip-2-5.jpg Ill try to get pics up tommorow, but its not that easy I dont think. Ive dealt with c-clips before, butthe clip is actually inside the bullet button where i would normally insert the bullet. Its hard to explain via writing if you havent seen it, so I will try to get pics up tommorow |
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Strange.....commercial BB's don't use clips of any sort. This may be a home-brew of some sort. Very possible, rifle lower is a spikes with a dpms parts kit, but riflegear assembled it so they may have used their own bullet button or something.Ill get pics up soon but am away from my computer till friday evening. Also, the magazine catch wont go past a certain point so i cant twist it off. I believe that the c clip prevents this. Just to be clear, a bb should remove like a regular mag catch right, or is there a different process? |
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Strange.....commercial BB's don't use clips of any sort. This may be a home-brew of some sort. Very possible, rifle lower is a spikes with a dpms parts kit, but riflegear assembled it so they may have used their own bullet button or something.Ill get pics up soon but am away from my computer till friday evening. Also, the magazine catch wont go past a certain point so i cant twist it off. I believe that the c clip prevents this. Just to be clear, a bb should remove like a regular mag catch right, or is there a different process? The real BB uses a tubular tool with two tangs at the end that engage matching notches in a cylindrical threaded sleeve that holds the whole thing together. A small screwdriver can often be used to unscrew this sleeve. If loctite was used you need to buy the tool to get it apart. |
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Strange.....commercial BB's don't use clips of any sort. This may be a home-brew of some sort. Very possible, rifle lower is a spikes with a dpms parts kit, but riflegear assembled it so they may have used their own bullet button or something.Ill get pics up soon but am away from my computer till friday evening. Also, the magazine catch wont go past a certain point so i cant twist it off. I believe that the c clip prevents this. Just to be clear, a bb should remove like a regular mag catch right, or is there a different process? The real BB uses a tubular tool with two tangs at the end that engage matching notches in a cylindrical threaded sleeve that holds the whole thing together. A small screwdriver can often be used to unscrew this sleeve. If loctite was used you need to buy the tool to get it apart. Riflegear sells the tool. Look here.....http://www.riflegear.com/p-939-ar15-bullet-button-installation-tool.aspx |
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Strange.....commercial BB's don't use clips of any sort. This may be a home-brew of some sort. Very possible, rifle lower is a spikes with a dpms parts kit, but riflegear assembled it so they may have used their own bullet button or something.Ill get pics up soon but am away from my computer till friday evening. Also, the magazine catch wont go past a certain point so i cant twist it off. I believe that the c clip prevents this. Just to be clear, a bb should remove like a regular mag catch right, or is there a different process? The real BB uses a tubular tool with two tangs at the end that engage matching notches in a cylindrical threaded sleeve that holds the whole thing together. A small screwdriver can often be used to unscrew this sleeve. If loctite was used you need to buy the tool to get it apart. Riflegear sells the tool. Look here.....http://www.riflegear.com/p-939-ar15-bullet-button-installation-tool.aspx Thanks for the link. Looks like its actually not a c clip, but rather some odd typ of screw that that tool is the wrench for. How would you do it with a screw driver though, it seems as tho that tool has 2 special prongs and is not very screw driver like? |
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Strange.....commercial BB's don't use clips of any sort. This may be a home-brew of some sort. Very possible, rifle lower is a spikes with a dpms parts kit, but riflegear assembled it so they may have used their own bullet button or something.Ill get pics up soon but am away from my computer till friday evening. Also, the magazine catch wont go past a certain point so i cant twist it off. I believe that the c clip prevents this. Just to be clear, a bb should remove like a regular mag catch right, or is there a different process? The real BB uses a tubular tool with two tangs at the end that engage matching notches in a cylindrical threaded sleeve that holds the whole thing together. A small screwdriver can often be used to unscrew this sleeve. If loctite was used you need to buy the tool to get it apart. Riflegear sells the tool. Look here.....http://www.riflegear.com/p-939-ar15-bullet-button-installation-tool.aspx Thanks for the link. Looks like its actually not a c clip, but rather some odd typ of screw that that tool is the wrench for. How would you do it with a screw driver though, it seems as tho that tool has 2 special prongs and is not very screw driver like? if you look at the "button" on a BB, you'll see that it is a tubular nut with a slot across the top. That is what you use a small screwdriver to on to install or remove. But if you turn it in too far, the shaft from the mag catch will poke through the tubular nut blocking you from using a screwdrive across the entire nut. So, that tool that you are looking for has two prongs to engage the screwdriver slot, even if the mag catch shaft is protruding through the top of the nut. |