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When people say do not check headspace or chamber on a brand new AR you have to tell them hold on a second....
There are a few easy checks aside from headspace that can assure proper function.
A few who don't follow basic things might get something like the below or much worse.
Something I dug out from my box of "mischief" casings I accumulated through the years.
This is what a case looks like after being fired on a chamber/upper that passed headspace
but was a wack job chambering.
This was one of those cheapo kits one can find at Palmetto that a long time member from
other forum bought and it was sent back due to being a POS.
Guess which one is it?....
Here is the result of another chamber that passed headspace but it was cut with the wrong tenon size (brutally short chambered)
So when you say to others GO AHEAD! ...SHOOT YOUR BUILD!!! ... why don't you do that with your own
guns and give a more sensible and wise advice to the weekend kitchen builders and suggest some minimum checks
like head-space and tenon size and chamber diameter and careful visual inspection.
Distance to the tenon and base chamber diameter can be measured with regular calipers by substracting the data from teh breech.
There are a few easy checks aside from headspace that can assure proper function.
A few who don't follow basic things might get something like the below or much worse.
Something I dug out from my box of "mischief" casings I accumulated through the years.
This is what a case looks like after being fired on a chamber/upper that passed headspace
but was a wack job chambering.
This was one of those cheapo kits one can find at Palmetto that a long time member from
other forum bought and it was sent back due to being a POS.
Guess which one is it?....
Here is the result of another chamber that passed headspace but it was cut with the wrong tenon size (brutally short chambered)
So when you say to others GO AHEAD! ...SHOOT YOUR BUILD!!! ... why don't you do that with your own
guns and give a more sensible and wise advice to the weekend kitchen builders and suggest some minimum checks
like head-space and tenon size and chamber diameter and careful visual inspection.
Distance to the tenon and base chamber diameter can be measured with regular calipers by substracting the data from teh breech.