Hey guys and gals. I was trying to get a sling swivel off of my upper. The upper that I have is the stag complete upper M4 profile that AIMs has for $450. I am wanting the side sling attachment to stay on. The one that I want off is the one that comes standard with all the AR 15 (the one directly under the barrel).
I can do my fair share of handy work around the house and never take on a task that I am not sure of (to keep me from messing something up and then having to pay more for someone else to fix the original job plus what I messed up). So in short if I have any doubts in my abilities I ask first and then decide if I want to go any further or just hire someone else to do the work.
I felt pretty confident that I could do this pretty simple job of drifting one little pin out to get this sling attachment off of my gun. I even went out and bought some Lyman steel and brass punches and steel roll pin punches at the fun show last weekend. I bought them mainly to put together my stag lower and RRA lower parts kit together whenever stag gets around to making some.
Anyway to get to the point. These damn pins are NOT MOVING!
I went to meyer this morring just to buy a little hammer to use with these punches (I want to do it right by not using or improviseing tools that arnt ment for the job it is a little 7 oz hammer). Well that just wasnt even budging that little Fing pin at all. Got my 32 oz hammer out, I am barelly moving it while hitting it pretty hard. I stopped in fear that I might mess something up. BTW I was braceing the gun barrel as well. WTF am I doing wrong? Are these pins always this big of a bitch to get out? Am I not using the correct tools? Are there any tools I can buy that will help me out (links, parts name, tool name, web site, price?). Any help is appreciated all TIA.