Quoted: The posts that were deleted concerned a member that bought a Carbon 15 and the first or second shot at the rage, the bolt snapped in half.
The Carbon uses propriatary parts so they are not interchangeable with the Milspec AR bplts.
When he posted how pissed he was, a slew of other Carbon 15 owners came out of the woodwork and, the vast, vast, vast majority were relating their dissatisfaction (the term "POS" was used frequently).
There are quite a few happy owners I'm sure but 3 trips to the factory was mentioned alot in the deleted post as well.
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Ha! Ha! Ha!
That was ME!!!
The goddamn bolt broke in half on the 2nd shot out of the gun...
It broke right at the big hole...
I had pics of it awhile ago, but cleaned up files and deleted them...
I did use a USGI bolt in place of the Prof Ord one, I just had to do a lot of "custom" fitting...
The locking lugs on the P.O. system are radiused and rounded...
All I did was chamfer the lugs on the USGI bolt, and it worked fine...
I also had to do a lot of work inside the upper receiver, to get it to run 100%...
I opened up the ejection port to match my Bushy (it's smaller than my Bushmaster's)
The empties were getting hung up inside the upper, and wouldn't eject...
All this work seemed to square it away...I shot about 10 or 12 mags through it without incident...
Only other problem, is the mag well is WAY TOO BIG...
Thermold mags fit & function nice, but the Aluminum USGI mags need to be rocked forward in order for them to feed...
There is about .060" to much Frt/RR opening for the mags...
I checked all these dimensions against my Bushmaster, which has ALWAYS run 100%...
Also, Proffessional Ordnance would not replace the defective bolt, without ALL my warranty/personal info...
So, I just took it upon myself to make the P.O.S. work...
Anybody want more in depth info on my successful repairs, just drop an E-mail, I'd be happy to assist...
...ART