Hey looking for some help or advice. This Allen head stripped on the retaining bolt that holds the trigger box in the lower assembly. I have never taken it out till now, the rifle is only 7 months old and had 500 rounds fired through it. I was trying to remove it so I could clean it and look at buying a new trigger for it. I applied heat to the screw in case there was loctite and o went through 3 different Allen keys to ensure I had a tight figment. I bent an Allen key tool to 22° from the amount of force I tried and used to remove the screw... it’s now stripped. I have emailed BCL but I think they may say I am SOL on warranty so looking for advice. Thought about taking it to a gun smith to see if they could remove it but I am fairly handy my self and figured I may try to remove it my self first.
BCL Coyote/ MacDef receiver trigger box help?
- Thread starter the_great_goretzki
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If you have a drill press you could easily drill the head of the screw off then the housing will come out. The screw isn't necessary anyways as the safety selector holds the housing in place. At least that's what I would do.
Also I would caution you against taking it to a gunsmith right now because, well, reasons....
Also I would caution you against taking it to a gunsmith right now because, well, reasons....
Thanks, yea I don’t want to take it to a smiths right now either for “said reasons” but hoping BCL comes good on warranty for it and helps me out. If not I thought about drilling it out and welding another bolt on to it and trying to remove it again. But I dot have a lot of faith in the weld holding up when that much torque has already been exerted on the original bolt and it didn’t budge....
Get a torx head socket roughly the size you need and hammer it into the hex socket. I've remove many a stripped socket head screw that way. Ideally use some sort of power tool to keep the force axial with the screw so you don't cam out of the socket.
Do this. The screw holding the trigger box down is a little flat countersunk head screw. If you take a drill just smaller than the screw head diameter (Or just bigger than the thread diameter) and drill down slowly, the head will be removed leaving just the threads. you'll be able to take the trigger box out, then just take the remaining screw out with a pair of plyers or whatever.
What I was told by BCL about warranty was that all they will do at this point is to ship parts out. They will not accept units in for repair because of "reasons". They are also limited of shipping out some parts because of same reasons.
Aside from the upper and lower receiver I don't see how there would be any issue shipping any of the other parts.
