VZ 2008 Hot Handguard

[Kevin_d77]

Has anyone come up with an inexpensive fix to the hand guards getting hot quickly? I don't want to spend a ton of money and make it all tactical-cool and it seems like replacing the fore end gets expensive.

 

[5.56RifleGuy]

Gloves

 

[marine6680]

Pretty much... or you have to get a plastic handguard. Not much choice on that.

 

[JD0x0]

Thermal shielding tape? It'll probably look like hell, but it'll protect your hands, if you don't want to deal with gloves.

http://www.amazon.com/Thermo-Tec-14...406781217&sr=8-9&keywords=heat+resistant+tape

 

[barnbwt]

I think it'd be cool for someone to experiment with a G36-style forward-venting gas block. You'll always get blow-by on the cylinder, but far more of the excess gas would never see the inside of the hand guards. A vertical foregrip is the easiest option, though (and is something of a requirement for all platforms used excessively)

Practicing fire discipline is simpler, still

TCB

 

[Mobuck]

don't shoot so fast

 

[Kevin_d77]

Don't shoot so fast? What fun is that???

 

[candr44]

I went to Lowe's and picked up a piece of metal roofing flashing and made a heat shield.

 

[doofus47]

jd0x0:

Thermal shielding tape?

I think I've seen pics of someone doing that on the interwebs somewhere.

 

[JD0x0]

I think I've seen pics of someone doing that on the interwebs somewhere.

I tried so hard to find a pic. Even stumbled across a FN FAL forum, and started reading about a few people using that same tape for the hand guard to protect from heat.

I don't have any on my guns, but I bought some of that tape for the intake on my car, and it seemed to help significantly. Intake air temps are cooler, which lets me use low test fuel in the summer, without pinging or detonation.

If I had a rifle that needed it, I'd probably have it on that rifle too.

 

[Kevin_d77]

Did you just line the inside of the beaver barf?

 

[marine6680]

I have aluminum tape... I wonder if that would work.