NEA still NEA'ing

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OldFrankHog said:
Non-NEA defective product shipped by mistake = No big deal bro they will take care of ya. SFRC is the best in the biz you'll get your stuff right no worries, sh1t happens.

NEA defecetive product shipped by mistake = OMFG what a sh1t company, my #### nearly fell off, my kids could have been orphaned, my dog got cancer, my lawn is yellow all because of this sh1t company!

Enjoy your new brake bud.
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This will be the new brake bud... went cheap and you see what I got. Better buying known quality gear then take a chance on cheap NEA stuff which I'm 0/4 on. I knew better but still got enticed by the low price.
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If you are wondering what I'm 0/4 on:
1st was an NEA BCG, and the bolt blew the center out on the 3rd round. These are "High Pressure Tested and MPI'd" according to NEA.... guess this one slipped through testing somehow lol.

2nd NEA upper that had the dust port cut bigger then spec so the dust cover had a considerable gap all around it.
3rd was a barrel that was turned down wayyy of center, bore was visibly off center.
4th was this brake, which tells me either I'm the unluckiest person on the planet, or NEA has some serious QC problems.
 
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bruh said:
Are you being serious? So NEA should be off the hook because a previous customer may have returned it and they were too incompetent inspect the item at the time of return?
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You've missed my point. I was suggesting it was purchased, installed on a rifle (improperly probably), taken to the range, struck by a bullet and returned to the retailer. It looks exactly like a suppressor that has seen a baffle strike causing the bullet to key hole. The OP suggested otherwise but it was an observation based on what the damage looked like.
 
OldFrankHog said:
Looks like some tool shot the thing loose and got a baffle strike when it flew off the gun... But what do I know, not like I owned black rifles for years and just ordered my 4th NEA rifle (2nd with Ryan btw.) And have always been satisfied.
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Did you miss Ryan's post above? If some tool shot it loose, it was a tool at NEA where he got it from lol.
 
TheGr8One said:
You've missed my point. I was suggesting it was purchased, installed on a rifle (improperly probably), taken to the range, struck by a bullet and returned to the retailer. It looks exactly like a suppressor that has seen a baffle strike causing the bullet to key hole. The OP suggested otherwise but it was an observation based on what the damage looked like.
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Ryan said he noticed it at the shop and was going to send it back to NEA but someone else shipped it by mistake. It came from NEA like that to SFRC.
If it was a return, that actually looks worse on NEA, as NEA would have had to refinish it, and send it back out with that huge ding in it to their most supportive retailer.
I really hope NEA treat SFRC better then that lol.
 
OldFrankHog said:
Looks like some tool shot the thing loose and got a baffle strike when it flew off the gun... But what do I know, not like I owned black rifles for years and just ordered my 4th NEA rifle (2nd with Ryan btw.) And have always been satisfied.
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How you can look at those photos and think that muzzle brake had ever been mounted and shot through is crazy. there are no handle markings, the threads look brand new, the finish on those brakes are easily marked. Either a customer shot the side of muzzle brake, sand-blasted it, got rid of all evidence of any carbon collecting on it, and sent it back to a very incompetent NEA employee ...

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NEA messed up during the manufacturing and QC didn't catch it before sending to the retailer.

I'll let you guess which one is the more likely situation of the two. And no one defending NEA in this specific example has addressed why it should be acceptable that neither QC letting this through or the employee accepting the return and not even performing the most basic of visual inspections. Even if it was a customer that sent back a brake they destroyed; the onus is on NEA to inspect their returns to make sure they are acceptable to be placed back into circulation (retail). Give your head a shake.
 
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Hitzy said:
Ryan said he noticed it at the shop and was going to send it back to NEA but someone else shipped it by mistake. It came from NEA like that to SFRC.
If it was a return, that actually looks worse on NEA, as NEA would have had to refinish it, and send it back out with that huge ding in it to their most supportive retailer.
I really hope NEA treat SFRC better then that lol.
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This should be obvious to anyone who views the pictures. REGARDLESS of who shipped it to OP, the muzzle brake should have NEVER left NEA's factories because even the most basic visual inspection would have caught that.

Like I am all for supporting Canadian business, especially in the industry. But if CC had even 25% of the quality control issues that NEA has then people would be losing their minds. If someone wants to buy NEA despite a lot of horror stories, then be my guest.
 
I'm still waiting on a replacement upper, after my bolt sheared in half, then the ejector retaining pin sheared in half, then the gas rings sheared in half, then they sent me back a damaged mismatched upper that was out of spec. Great company...two years and still waiting.
 
IanON said:
I'm still waiting on a replacement upper, after my bolt sheared in half, then the ejector retaining pin sheared in half, then the gas rings sheared in half, then they sent me back a damaged mismatched upper that was out of spec. Great company...two years and still waiting.
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That sucks man, but it did make me lol.
I'll consider my problems as just minor compared to that.
 
My 2¢ as a Quality inspector for a manufacturing company. Also a machinist in a former life.
1.) That brake would have been turned on a lathe as a first machining operation. This is likely where the error occurred. Looks like a drill broke in my opinion
How the lathe operator did not catch it?
2.)This brake would have moved on to a milling operation. Mill operator should have caught this immediately. The only excuse at this stage in my opinion is if the mill operator was using this obvious scrap part as a "set-up" piece.
If the latter is true, the part needed not move on to any further operations and should have been discarded.
3.)The brake has been bead blasted. This would have involved an operator closely looking at it while performing this process. Again -- How the operator did not catch it?
4.) QC if existent at NEA needs to be fired. Visual inspection IMHO is more important than dimensional in many instances. As a purchaser I am not privy to the dimensional requirements of said part. So; if something is out of spec a few thousandths I will never know it as long as it does not affect FIT-FORM-FUNCTION
5.)Packaging/Shipping people at NEA although not truly QC are really the final line of defence. They also dropped the ball IMHO. I have had shippers bring parts to me and ask "is this OK"

For what it's worth, I really appreciate threads like this one. I will never touch anything NEA because they just don't have their act together and it shows. Again and Again

Shoot straight - chrisco
 
IanON said:
I'm still waiting on a replacement upper, after my bolt sheared in half, then the ejector retaining pin sheared in half, then the gas rings sheared in half, then they sent me back a damaged mismatched upper that was out of spec. Great company...two years and still waiting.
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Photo of loyal NEA customer from back when NEA was in the IUD and latex condom manufacturing business.

 
When you think about companies like KAC who simply stopped high pressure testing their stuff because the rejection rate has always been zero.
 
Hitzy said:
That sucks man, but it did make me lol.
I'll consider my problems as just minor compared to that.
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I'm not actually expecting anything anymore, I gave up a long time ago. The lady I was exchanging emails with just stopped talking to me after a few heated messages (after dozens of others...). It is sad they are still up to the same nonsense. I got enjoyment supporting a Canadian company but well we all seem to know how that has gone...
 
TheGr8One said:
You've missed my point. I was suggesting it was purchased, installed on a rifle (improperly probably), taken to the range, struck by a bullet and returned to the retailer. It looks exactly like a suppressor that has seen a baffle strike causing the bullet to key hole. The OP suggested otherwise but it was an observation based on what the damage looked like.
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It came to us like that.
 
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