Building my first rifle from scratch, a project I mentioned here prior just getting back around to it.. Basically a carry handle upper, spikes barrel w/ FSB - simple solid iron sight rifle is what I'm going for here..
Greased & worked in the threads, torqued, and the nut timing is just as wrong as it can be, as in it aligns right with about 20 lbs of torque and is about as wrong as it can be once you get to 30, is not budging enough to make a difference up to 75 lbs and I quit. Tried it a few times - no dice.
So I got some shims.. I thought it would be easy then in looking at this realized to me the best way is to put the shims between the barrel nut & barrel (not between the barrel & upper like I do see some methods employing via a cut in the shim).. Read up on it, seems although both practices are not uncommon the right way is probably remove the FSB, shim/time the nut, go back and re-install it..
Some of you guys here are really in the know w/ such things, do you agree? Any last words on FSB removal if so? Doesn't look too scary but man the stuff you read is all over the place on it.
Thanks in advance!
Greased & worked in the threads, torqued, and the nut timing is just as wrong as it can be, as in it aligns right with about 20 lbs of torque and is about as wrong as it can be once you get to 30, is not budging enough to make a difference up to 75 lbs and I quit. Tried it a few times - no dice.
So I got some shims.. I thought it would be easy then in looking at this realized to me the best way is to put the shims between the barrel nut & barrel (not between the barrel & upper like I do see some methods employing via a cut in the shim).. Read up on it, seems although both practices are not uncommon the right way is probably remove the FSB, shim/time the nut, go back and re-install it..
Some of you guys here are really in the know w/ such things, do you agree? Any last words on FSB removal if so? Doesn't look too scary but man the stuff you read is all over the place on it.
Thanks in advance!