Thermold Mags Rant

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Has anyone else got these pieces of *&%^!!!

I bought a few because I was told they work fine... but they don't. Usually I can feed the first round in, and all others seem to feed occasionally at best. The last round won't feed at all, under any circumstances. I have no problems feeding my M14 with my steel Norinco mags.

I tried it with my cheap MFS steel ammo first, and then thinking that might be a problem switched to my brass cased Winchester Ammo, and still no dice. I'm seriously pissed at these and will be returning all 4 to where I bought them. I didn't even get to test if my version locks back on the last round, as I was too busy ripping them out of my gun and suppressing my urge to throw them in front of my gun and use them as my new targets. They would make pretty good skeets, but I don't think I will use them again.

So now that my rant is done, does anyone know where I can pick up a few steel mags for my M14?
 
rodbunlap said:
Has anyone else got these pieces of *&%^!!!

I bought a few because I was told they work fine... but they don't. Usually I can feed the first round in, and all others seem to feed occasionally at best. The last round won't feed at all, under any circumstances. I have no problems feeding my M14 with my steel Norinco mags.

I tried it with my cheap MFS steel ammo first, and then thinking that might be a problem switched to my brass cased Winchester Ammo, and still no dice. I'm seriously pissed at these and will be returning all 4 to where I bought them. I didn't even get to test if my version locks back on the last round, as I was too busy ripping them out of my gun and suppressing my urge to throw them in front of my gun and use them as my new targets. They would make pretty good skeets, but I don't think I will use them again.

So now that my rant is done, does anyone know where I can pick up a few steel mags for my M14?
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The usual answer is try Lever Arms.

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I don't know anything about their quality, as all i have are the two that came with my rifle, so i can't vouch for these (or lever arms service), maybe someone else can...
 
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BioPace said:
The usual answer is try Lever Arms.
...... i can't vouch for these (or lever arms service), maybe someone else can...
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I have had no issues with Lever's service. Email order form one day, phone in CC# the next. Orders got mailed the very same day I phoned. Tok mags, AR mags and SKS stuff.

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rodbunlap said:
Has anyone else got these pieces of *&%^!!!

I bought a few because I was told they work fine... but they don't. Usually I can feed the first round in, and all others seem to feed occasionally at best. The last round won't feed at all, under any circumstances. I have no problems feeding my M14 with my steel Norinco mags.

I tried it with my cheap MFS steel ammo first, and then thinking that might be a problem switched to my brass cased Winchester Ammo, and still no dice. I'm seriously pissed at these and will be returning all 4 to where I bought them. I didn't even get to test if my version locks back on the last round, as I was too busy ripping them out of my gun and suppressing my urge to throw them in front of my gun and use them as my new targets. They would make pretty good skeets, but I don't think I will use them again.

So now that my rant is done, does anyone know where I can pick up a few steel mags for my M14?
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It's the stupid why they pinned the freaken mag's.
Also it's a good idea to ditch them cause the cheap plastic that they used won't last long either.
 
Had issue with the thermold also.
Made many post on them in the last year
For others, stay away! I have a M1A and they are crap... Norc mags works jut fine
 
The Canadian Forces was sold the Thermold mags when the C7 family was introduced. Reality overruled marketing. By the time of Somalia, the serious troops had found ways of exchanging them for USGI metal mags or ditching them altogether.
 
rodbunlap said:
I really wish they would work, simply from a weight point of view. Is there any way to make them work better than they do?
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Co-worker picked a few up so i grabbed 2. He had problems at the range, woundnt feed after the first round. It just scraped the casing but wouldnt grab it. The reason i wanted to try them was for keeping the weight down. I have 4 M14s and im sure i can get them to work in at least 1 of them :)
 
i picked up one and had the same problem. it would just scrape the top of the bullet. what i found was the walls of the mag where the pin was inserted were bulging out cuz of the pin. so i took a small center punch and knocked out about a 1/8 of the pin and cut it. then i hammered it back in. the bulg got smaller and now i dont have any problems with the mag.
 
Can you show some pics of what you mean for the less qualified of us. I really really want them to work as well.

Do you mean the pins that limit the capacity of the mags? I put mine in the magwell and they seem to sit just a hair under the bottom of the stock. Maybe I've got the wrong piece to file down, but I don't think thats the problem with mine. I personally thought the square at the back of the mag seems a bit long compared to my other ones, but I don't think that would be a problem. I thought that would actually insert the mag deeper, not shallower as it seems to be happening.
 
i have 2 mags. the first one is perfect. no problems what so ever. i bought a second one and noticed it was different. the pin that limits the capacity on the first one i bought was a single metal pin. the second one i bought had 2 plastic screw type pins. these 2 plastic pins were making the mag bulg wider. so i used a punch to push about a 1/4" of the pin out of the mag and i cut about an 1/8". after that i hammered them back in. this made the mags almost the same thickness as the first one i bought. went to the range to test and had no problems. sorry im not computer literate so i dunno how to post pics.
 
Nope... Mine are plastic screws on the inside, and I can't pop them out. I looked at them though and it doesn't seem that they are bulging out any. The first round still feeds every time so I don't understand why the next ones don't. I'm just gunna return them and buy the $35 Lever arm metal ones and do a few extra squats to deal with carrying them around.
 
Well I hope you have better luck that I do. I'm considering introducing one to my dremel to see if I can get it to work. If I can't then I'll return the other 3.

Mag meet Dremel. Dremel meet Mag. Now work damn you!!!
 
Dr Evil said:
It's the stupid why they pinned the freaken mag's.
Also it's a good idea to ditch them cause the cheap plastic that they used won't last long either.
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you just get pliers twist it out and it comes out they cut the spring to 5 rounds so it's shorter then is used to be as they crammed it in there I used wolf springs and installed a rivit and now it works just fine. It was really stiff and I thought it was weird that they cramed it in there like that did a hack job.

the pin is like a plastic screw with no head and is easy to get out were a rivit isn't as easy.
 
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