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To: Black_Rifle_Gunsmith

Two hardest pins to install: Bolt Latch roll pin, and trigger guard roll pin.

The rest of the assembly is a piece of cake.


2 posted on 03/02/2020 8:01:15 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Yes! I have yet to drive one in without marring the finish on the lower.


5 posted on 03/02/2020 8:07:05 AM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: Yo-Yo
That's when you need a roll pin punch of the right size, and one of these:

And a carpeted table so you don't lose anything.

8 posted on 03/02/2020 8:09:47 AM PST by real saxophonist (I'll be Bach. You be Brahms. He'll be Beethoven.)
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To: Yo-Yo
Two hardest pins to install: Bolt Latch roll pin, and trigger guard roll pin.

Lots of lowers now have a full trigger guard already cast in place. For those that still have the original style casting "ears", the MagPul trigger guards can be installed with screws - no worries of breaking off a mounting ear when tapping in the roll pin.

16 posted on 03/02/2020 9:16:19 AM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Yo-Yo
Two hardest pins to install: Bolt Latch roll pin, and trigger guard roll pin.

Yup. What you might try - I do it this way now - is using a roll pin starter punch and then a pair of channel-lock pliers to squeeze it in instead of "tapping" with a hammer. (Tapping my butt, I had to pound my first one like fiend. Lubrication helps.)

27 posted on 03/02/2020 11:46:11 AM PST by Billthedrill
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