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9/16/2012 4:58:52 PM EDT
I have a free float tool enroute in the mail. When I get it who wants to help me install it? I don't have a receiver block or wrenches, but I've read you can install Yankee Hill Machine barrel nuts without their special tool.

It'll be a week or two before I can get it installed.

Thanks in advance.
9/16/2012 5:02:12 PM EDT
[#1]
Where in Mo are you ?
9/16/2012 5:18:21 PM EDT
[#2]
Quoted:
Where in Mo are you ?


That would help wouldn't it?

Cuba, MO
9/16/2012 5:49:56 PM EDT
[#3]
I've got a armorers wrench
9/16/2012 6:04:23 PM EDT
[#4]
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I've got a armorers wrench


That worked fine for my YHM rail, and I just used a screw diver and a hammer for the locking ring
9/16/2012 8:10:37 PM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
I've got a armorers wrench


Think anyone in the STC/Union/Washington area has a reciever vice thingamabob?

If all else fails I could talk to Major.
9/16/2012 8:37:02 PM EDT
[#6]
It may not be the correct way, but all I did was use a standard vice and some cutting board type plastic. Just put a piece on the top and enough to get it past the lugs on the bottom of the receiver and worked on it sideways.
9/16/2012 8:45:53 PM EDT
[#7]
Mine just screwed on, and I held the receiver against the floor while tightening the tube with a strap wrench.
 
9/16/2012 8:46:42 PM EDT
[#8]
Quoted:
It may not be the correct way, but all I did was use a standard vice and some cutting board type plastic. Just put a piece on the top and enough to get it past the lugs on the bottom of the receiver and worked on it sideways.


I have the ability to destroy a splitting maul. I have to do things right or when I destroy them I feel really dumb.
9/16/2012 8:47:14 PM EDT
[#9]
Quoted:
Mine just screwed on, and I held the receiver against the floor while tightening the tube with a strap wrench.  


How did you know what torque to tighten to?
9/16/2012 9:53:02 PM EDT
[#10]
I just went until it was tight, and had a hole lined up for the gas tube to go through.