They should have been inspected/gauged before leaving the factory. The misalignments being reported are evident to the naked eyeball - pretty obvious.
Agreed.
They should have been inspected/gauged before leaving the factory. The misalignments being reported are evident to the naked eyeball - pretty obvious.
Out of all the rifles shown in this thread with images, this one is easily the most severely bent. Even I can't defend this one. No way that's within TI's spec just from eyeballing it. All you need to do now is measure it via the magnets and rulers test and report back with the exact measurements
May be, the entire front sight block is shifted to the right on its dovetail because it was loose in transport? The front sight is adjustable for both elevation and windage. A small wrench for windage regulation is supplied with the rifle in a small, black, plastic tool box. Other tools are there, too. Just saying. It could be grossly misaligned, too.
and suckers buy em, hell I traded mine to a guy for an unfired $2500 rifle package, and mine was bent
That exact problem is why I asked for another image that shows the barrel, and he gladly obliged. That sight tower was centered with the barrel, meaning it's VERY bent.
I can't figure out how to get pics to work in here so my apologies and I hope I can explain this in a way you guys can visualize, but is a slight concave or bend along the receiver normal? If I place a flat object along the right side of the receiver it is tight on the two farthest ends but there is a 1-2mm gap in the middle, indicating the receiver wall itself is bent inwards towards the bolt assembly. It's such that I can notice the bend with the naked eye when shouldering the rifle. It also feels like there is slightly more friction when cycling the bolt (perhaps due to the receiver squeezing the bolt assembly due to the inward bend?). My T81 SE has this characteristic as well to a slight degree, but it's not nearly as noticeable.
Semantics?
Is the barrel bent? i.e. Is the steel tube curved?
Or is the barrel installed in the receiver in such a manner that the axis of the receiver and the axis of the barrel diverge? The receiver and barrel axes are not co-axial?
I have yet to see any reports of barrels not being straight, the barrel itself being curved.
The alignment problem seems to be in the receiver assembly, the assembly of the barrel trunnion and pressed steel receiver being out of line.
I can't help but wonder if a couple of minutes and a shop press might not fix a "bent" rifle...
Anyone hear more about when the hand guard ships? Yeah it’s April now ��
No. The sight "tower"?
That photo is lining up the rear of the receiver through the back sight.
WTF are you going on about? Do you think it'll shoot to the right of where you're aiming when you line up the sights?
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They should have been inspected/gauged before leaving the factory. The misalignments being reported are evident to the naked eyeball - pretty obvious.
Is the top handguard the same across all t81 models that have been imported?
@ the guys who got "good ones", I say great and enjoy...to the guys who got burned, I say TI will do right by you at the end of the day, and these are the dice you roll when you purchase anything Chinese...they couldn't give a sh1t. It's long past the time when we should embrace their mindset.
https://i.imgur.com/PH1UTEf.jpeg <<< This is what i see. And this is what allot of people see. I drew the lines to help those who don't see..
IF THE BARREL IS TRUE AND STRAIGHT. OH WELL.
IF ITS BENT. WE ARE GETTING BENT.
That's the perfect addition to show the issue (even with the bad cam angle biased from the right).
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I dont get how people don't see it like this, I see this all day without the lines, don't tell me im the first #### to do this with the lines...
I saw it like that at the range. Once shouldered, ZERO fawking difference.
I guess some of these redditors in here paid for a Chevette expecting a Corvette.
We all paid the same price but not all of us got the same product.