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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
winmag; any particular eotech model? there's several as I recall.
You want one with a model number ending in "AA", which uses AA batteries, rather than "N"s. There's a 510 and 550 AA, with minor differences between them. You can get either a thumbscrew mount, or throw levers. Keep an eye out for sales from various internet sources.
A holographic sight provides the widest viewing angle, and Eotech makes the only models used by the US military. All the other brands are cheapie consumer models.
Too bad we didn't start looking at the floor during the Christmas holidays, so we could have done all this when the temps were in the upper 40's and the 50's! Oh well.
I'm actually quite astonished. It's fun... in a "full court" sort of way. :-)
Hey... that gives me an idea...
I'll probably watch The Lakehouse tomorrow. Should be pretty good...Sandra Bullock pretty much always is. Keanu Reeves can't act his way out of a wet paper bag, but if he doesn't try too hard, he may be OK opposite someone like her. ;-)
OK, I wasn't too sure about the free floating fore end, but have googled it and found out some rudimentary info on the subject. How do I go about free floating the fore end on the weapon in question? Is it something I can do, or will I need a gunsmith? I'm mechanically inclined, but without being a mechanic, or a gunsmith, for that matter.
Thanks yet again.
I saw that when it first started and didn't bother. Gonna have to go look now.
Sunday morning. Cinnamon rolls in a few minutes, church in a couple hours, then a Home Depot run and an afternoon of mudding.
This might help, good photos and tools needed. Winmag may have a better site and/or link.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=226782
Don't know if I posted this correctly but the AR 15 Forum seems to quite a few topics on building your own and/or tuning your own. Worth a look anyway.
Short walk this morning, Gypsygirl is now napping. Begining to think the ice will be here till spring. mmm. spring thaw...
Too dang cold for walking!
Happiness is a cuppa with my trusty cat curled up beside me.
~sip~
At least it's sunny.
Those topics in ar15.com provide a good starting point. The freefloat handguard they show are the "traditional" types that require removal of the barrel to install the mounting bracket for the rear of the tube. Being a complete tube, the front sight has to come off, too, to allow the tube to be slipped on.
The newer free-float tubes come in two parts. The top part of the tube runs from about the 7 o'clock to 5 o'clock position, as viewed from the rear. It's held on by a substantion u-bolt clamp across the barrel extension. The bottom part of the tube then screws on to the top. You can leave off the bottom part if you're going to put a grenade launcher under the bottom of the barrel.
Because it's not a one-piece tube, the front sight does not need to be removed to install it. Also, more importantly, you don't need to remove the barrel just to put in a new barrel extension (or "barrel nut"), just cut off the existing delta ring, wave spring, and snap ring (the upper items in the following picture). The barrel itself is not removed.
I wrapped some duct tape around the barrel and upper receiver to protect against any nicks while cutting off the aluminum delta ring with a cutoff tool in a Foredom grinder. It was about a 10 minute job to cut two grooves deep enough to snap apart the ring with a large screwdriver stuck in the cuts.
I was much more confident in just cutting off the delta ring, and removing the spring and snap ring than removing the entire barrel. I did remove the front sight because I installed a fold-down front sight at the same time, and that let me get the gas tube out of the way. But with care, the front sight and gas tube can remain on.
I'll post a picture with more details of the new hand guard later.
"substantion" = "substantial"
Mmmm...cinnamon rolls...
One of these days I'm gonna have an oven again.
Heh...took me a second to figure out what you meant by "mudding".
One of these days, I'm gonna have a dishwasher again.
Softens while you do the dishes.
I got all caught up on dishes and we've been using paper for a week. I'm just tired of dishes. Bleah.
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