NEA Parts Quality?

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I was wondering what/if NEA make any good t decent quality parts. I've read on here that their barrels are good, but are their LPK or muzzle devises any good? Please don't use sarcasm here, because I don't know, and I might believe you.

Thanks in advance.
 
Wantabe_ Warrior said:
I was wondering what/if NEA make any good t decent quality parts. I've read on here that their barrels are good, but are their LPK or muzzle devises any good? Please don't use sarcasm here, because I don't know, and I might believe you.

Thanks in advance.
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Yes the barrels are good, but NEA buys them from someone else and brand labels them. The other parts have all had spotty QC. The trigger groups have had poor heat treat and can not fire or go FA. The BCGs have been out of spec (holes in the wrong place) and have had at least one bolt shear one or more lugs. Honestly just avoid them, there are plenty of people making quality parts that you don't have to gamble on NEA "QC".
 
I have a NEA upper receiver. Yankee hill bolt and a 11.5 DPMs barell when they all came together and sat on the Aero precision lower Everything went together well It was my first build Thanks to the guys up top like Arms East and Questar and a few others and guys on the US side like Brownells. I'm sure i could have bought one cheaper. But when you tell people you built this. They look in amazment. There not to hard to build when you watch the vids on Brownells. No problems with NEA from me Guys at the club have them and said customer service is super.
 
thats not a fact about their barrels at all...
the only true part of that was "their barrels are good"

but what do i know, a lowly owner of NEA rifles and parts, compared to the wizdom of the internet armchair commandos

rifles work great for me, especially for the price
 
If you are worried about NEA, buy what you want in NEA parts instead of a complete rifle.

Sub in a BCG, LPK, and just get the upper, lower, barrel, and rail if you want it.
 
A.T.R. I plan on build a value (i.e. good stuff, low price) franken-gun, and NEA is the only heavy profile barrel I've been able to find (besides a custom made one by ATRS). But I've been hearing nothing good about NEA, except for their barrels, so I wanted to find out what the scoop is on their parts.


BTW I'm thinking of buying a Norc AR-15 (14.5" barrel) and subbing out a few parts, then later down the road building MY own rifle.
 
I would suggest that if you buy a Norinco, not to go hogwild swapping out parts. Put an optic on it and shoot it.
 
easysauce said:
thats not a fact about their barrels at all...
the only true part of that was "their barrels are good"

but what do i know, a lowly owner of NEA rifles and parts, compared to the wizdom of the internet armchair commandos

rifles work great for me, especially for the price
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No, Nea doesn't make the barrels they sell, thats common knowledge. Everything I said was true every single thing I described has occured with NEA parts. The only person lying here is you.
 
easysauce said:
thats not a fact about their barrels at all...
the only true part of that was "their barrels are good"

but what do i know, a lowly owner of NEA rifles and parts, compared to the wizdom of the internet armchair commandos

rifles work great for me, especially for the price
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mg4201 said:
No, Nea doesn't make the barrels they sell, thats common knowledge. Everything I said was true every single thing I described has occured with NEA parts. The only person lying here is you.
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i agree wit easysauce, except ive seen a few people say that they dont make their barrels, and the older BCG was outsourced, which were apparently the ones which failed.
i just got my 12.5 and its been running great. it only has 150 down the pipe and im going to try to put 200 more down it tomorrow.
i should be around the 7-800 round mark by the end of sunday.

fit and finish of it is good has a couple small blemishes on it but barely noticeable, ive never liked how their quad rail mounts but i have never seen anyone complain about it failing.
 
If NEA is making their own barrels - that is, drilling, reaming, hammer forging, button rifling, whatever, more power to them. Setting up a barrel line is a pretty serious business, and a major commitment.
 
jdman said:
the gas block on the norks is near impossible to remove without cutting it off.
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One option is to just cut off the front sight tower, if a front sight is not going to be needed. Easier and a lot cheaper than installing a new gas block.
 
NEA Barrels:

NEA orders cylindrical barrel blanks from a well known American producer of polygonal rifled barrels. They contour, thread, chamber and finish the barrels in Canada.

I had good luck with the two NEA barrels I used in builds. YMMV.
 
tiriaq said:
If NEA is making their own barrels - that is, drilling, reaming, hammer forging, button rifling, whatever, more power to them. Setting up a barrel line is a pretty serious business, and a major commitment.
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They are not making barrels, Misanthropist works with NEA and although he can't reveal who IS making the barrels, it's not NEA
 
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