This. I could understand scratching it once in dumb stubbornness but OP pic is just willful destruction in a childish tantrum. Probably so it'd look more dramatic and score more attention when posted.
Isopropyl also works on screws anyways, probably could spray around the barrel nut and let it soak for a bit then give it a try if you're having a lot of trouble.
Gun companies are throwing red loctite on stuff from the factory now?
>taking apart the bottom bracket of an old bike. >i am definitely going the right direction, bottom brackets go different depending on the side, its tricky but if you know it shouldnt be a problem >it doesnt go, siezed up entirely. >no tools give enough leverage >using a pipe to extend the handle infinitely long doesnt help >bashing with a hammer doesnt work >hit the fricking thing so hard the welds break on the frame, bikes fricked >hit it with the angle grinder >the threads are just so entirely fricked there was just no way i was going to do it >frick this was frustrating >toss the bike in a dumpster and go back inside to drink
Not ONCE did i think to take a fricking photo of it and post it online. Why do people think announcing their failures is a good thing?
Old bike vs a new gun anon, and I hope you bought a propane torch for next time. They're cheap and they help a fricking lot.
the 870 magazine tubes are silver soldered in i think so theyre even harder to remove. the mossberg ones are threaded and screwed in with red loctite.
i tried to remove an 870 magazine tube with map gas before and it wouldnt even heat it up enough
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>i tried to remove an 870 magazine tube with map gas before and it wouldnt even heat it up enough
Incredible. That's absolutely ridiculous they're doing that from the factory. It is absolutely NOT needed. My 870 ancient, thankfully
That’s right, I put a scratch on mine before I realized.
Once I understood it needed heat to break the red locktite I heated it up on the stove (flat electric stovetop.. would have been easier with a gas burner) until the puff of smoke. Then it came right off no problem.
Putting loctite and especially RED loctite on a barrel nut is just as moronic as ignoring that it's there when trying to take it off; any kind of thread locker is completely unnecessary unless your manufacturing is so shit that it's necessary and if you do any kind of tactical shooting and/or have a pencil barrel it's probably going to get hot enough to degrade 246 anyway. Plus if you decide to go with a thread locker anyway then why not just use 2422? It lets you take off the nut if you need to and unless you have a giggle switch or are doing something that involves magdumping then there's no goddamn way an AR is going to get hot enough to degrade it.
I will kill anyone using loctite or rockset or any thread locking substance on a barrel nut. You are too use aeroshell grease on the threads for the barrel nut and torque it to spec.
hahaha yeah what a moron amirite?
Anyway there might be some other morons ITT so for their benefit can you explain what the frick you're talking about?
A lot of people act without thinking. It's actually the most common method of problem solving. I have never understood this. I would have downloaded a technical manual and read the whole thing before even getting any tools out.
>I would have downloaded a technical manual and read the whole thing before even getting any tools out.
So where are you getting your technical manuals for guns, because most manufacturers don't provide such a thing.
>taking apart the bottom bracket of an old bike. >i am definitely going the right direction, bottom brackets go different depending on the side, its tricky but if you know it shouldnt be a problem >it doesnt go, siezed up entirely. >no tools give enough leverage >using a pipe to extend the handle infinitely long doesnt help >bashing with a hammer doesnt work >hit the fricking thing so hard the welds break on the frame, bikes fricked >hit it with the angle grinder >the threads are just so entirely fricked there was just no way i was going to do it >frick this was frustrating >toss the bike in a dumpster and go back inside to drink
Not ONCE did i think to take a fricking photo of it and post it online. Why do people think announcing their failures is a good thing?
I bought a PC Carbine about a year ago and there was red locitite on literally every fricking screw except the main stock screws. The rear sight base was especially fricked up. The forward screw was so tight that what I thought was it loosening was actually my bit getting twisted and the head rounding off, and the rear screw looks like the head was welded shut. I got it used, so I'm surprised this is all that ended up being wrong with it
>everyone absolutely roasting this guy
newbies that have no experience with shit. it is entirely possible that its not his fault, and I have seen it before personally with PSA: the manufacturer installed the nut without using a torque wrench. and without anti-seize, just dry threads.
the metal can actually bond together like this and is impossible to remove without destroying the upper
doesnt mean it was installed correctly, max torque for these is like 70 ft lbs
heating and oiling can help, but they are copes if it's Black personed on there. youll never need to do anything special if it's to spec with aeroshell grease.
doesnt mean it was installed correctly, max torque for these is like 70 ft lbs
heating and oiling can help, but they are copes if it's Black personed on there. youll never need to do anything special if it's to spec with aeroshell grease.
>max torque for these is like 70 ft lbs
Something is seriously fricked up if you need to do what that guy did to remove something that's supposed to be torqued to 70 ft lbs max and isn't on a car or something else that's constantly exposed to the elements.
sorry, bro, user error isn't covered by the warranty
Pipe wrench: 0
Barrel Nut: 1
why doesnt he just use a pipe wrench
He was a moron who didn't know he was supposed to use a heat gun on the loctite so he just got mad and kept trying to turn it.
This. I could understand scratching it once in dumb stubbornness but OP pic is just willful destruction in a childish tantrum. Probably so it'd look more dramatic and score more attention when posted.
Yep
Why do they cheer him on
reddit
circlejerk hivemind
if it was here we would've called him a moronic Black personhomosexual and laughed at him
shut up you fully moronic Black personhomosexual
Isopropyl also works on screws anyways, probably could spray around the barrel nut and let it soak for a bit then give it a try if you're having a lot of trouble.
>loctite
>barrel nut
no
Gun companies are throwing red loctite on stuff from the factory now?
Old bike vs a new gun anon, and I hope you bought a propane torch for next time. They're cheap and they help a fricking lot.
>Gun companies are throwing red loctite on stuff from the factory now?
i know mossberg uses red loctite on the mossberg 500 magazine tubes where they screw into the receiver
>red loctite on the fricking magazine tube
I didn't even have to use it when I built my 870. Why?
the 870 magazine tubes are silver soldered in i think so theyre even harder to remove. the mossberg ones are threaded and screwed in with red loctite.
i tried to remove an 870 magazine tube with map gas before and it wouldnt even heat it up enough
>i tried to remove an 870 magazine tube with map gas before and it wouldnt even heat it up enough
Incredible. That's absolutely ridiculous they're doing that from the factory. It is absolutely NOT needed. My 870 ancient, thankfully
They've always been brazed.
That’s right, I put a scratch on mine before I realized.
Once I understood it needed heat to break the red locktite I heated it up on the stove (flat electric stovetop.. would have been easier with a gas burner) until the puff of smoke. Then it came right off no problem.
Putting loctite and especially RED loctite on a barrel nut is just as moronic as ignoring that it's there when trying to take it off; any kind of thread locker is completely unnecessary unless your manufacturing is so shit that it's necessary and if you do any kind of tactical shooting and/or have a pencil barrel it's probably going to get hot enough to degrade 246 anyway. Plus if you decide to go with a thread locker anyway then why not just use 2422? It lets you take off the nut if you need to and unless you have a giggle switch or are doing something that involves magdumping then there's no goddamn way an AR is going to get hot enough to degrade it.
I will kill anyone using loctite or rockset or any thread locking substance on a barrel nut. You are too use aeroshell grease on the threads for the barrel nut and torque it to spec.
>loctite
>on a barrel nut
He's a moron but so is Aero.
Aero doesn't use loctite on barrel nuts.
hahaha yeah what a moron amirite?
Anyway there might be some other morons ITT so for their benefit can you explain what the frick you're talking about?
noguns
What in gods name
How the frick do you even manage to frick it up that bad? Was there no point where they realized they should stop???
He could have been turning it in the opposite direction.
Only wrong direction this moron turned was when he was born. Presumably the labor complications caused oxygen deprivation and brain damage.
>proprietary wrench.
That's not how you spell "monkey".
People like this should not own guns.
This is clearly a sign of autistic blind rage and poor emotional development in addition to abysmal technical knowledge.
A lot of people act without thinking. It's actually the most common method of problem solving. I have never understood this. I would have downloaded a technical manual and read the whole thing before even getting any tools out.
>I would have downloaded a technical manual and read the whole thing before even getting any tools out.
So where are you getting your technical manuals for guns, because most manufacturers don't provide such a thing.
I have a manual for every gun I have, but granted I only have Berettas (no I'm not a fanboy, it's just what happened to fit my (s)needs)
I dunno, man. One came with the last gun I bought. If there was a question it didn't answer I'd call the mfg or do a little digging online.
TM 9-1005-319-23&P
>US military technical manual
>for a gun that isn't used by the US military and uses proprietary non milspec parts
Really anon?
SHALL NOT
OWN
PASS
>taking apart the bottom bracket of an old bike.
>i am definitely going the right direction, bottom brackets go different depending on the side, its tricky but if you know it shouldnt be a problem
>it doesnt go, siezed up entirely.
>no tools give enough leverage
>using a pipe to extend the handle infinitely long doesnt help
>bashing with a hammer doesnt work
>hit the fricking thing so hard the welds break on the frame, bikes fricked
>hit it with the angle grinder
>the threads are just so entirely fricked there was just no way i was going to do it
>frick this was frustrating
>toss the bike in a dumpster and go back inside to drink
Not ONCE did i think to take a fricking photo of it and post it online. Why do people think announcing their failures is a good thing?
He's sure it's Aero's failure rather than his.
Bottom brackets are up there with office printers and narcissists as the most annoying things to fix ever.
use penetrating oil
Are you the anon who shot his monitor?
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Who has the pics of the guy who messed up his AUG like this?
I bought a PC Carbine about a year ago and there was red locitite on literally every fricking screw except the main stock screws. The rear sight base was especially fricked up. The forward screw was so tight that what I thought was it loosening was actually my bit getting twisted and the head rounding off, and the rear screw looks like the head was welded shut. I got it used, so I'm surprised this is all that ended up being wrong with it
>R*ddit
Go the frick back.
>everyone absolutely roasting this guy
newbies that have no experience with shit. it is entirely possible that its not his fault, and I have seen it before personally with PSA: the manufacturer installed the nut without using a torque wrench. and without anti-seize, just dry threads.
the metal can actually bond together like this and is impossible to remove without destroying the upper
Nope, it came loose after he properly heated it.
doesnt mean it was installed correctly, max torque for these is like 70 ft lbs
heating and oiling can help, but they are copes if it's Black personed on there. youll never need to do anything special if it's to spec with aeroshell grease.
>max torque for these is like 70 ft lbs
Something is seriously fricked up if you need to do what that guy did to remove something that's supposed to be torqued to 70 ft lbs max and isn't on a car or something else that's constantly exposed to the elements.
Why would you buy a complete upper if you are going to change out the barrel?
Replacing a shot out barrel or replacing a handguard.
sometimes u buy a poorgay upper and are filled with regreti. so you buy a gucci handguard