Ya Ya I know what you gonna say. NEA is a blem. I gathered this from all the hate out there. OK thats done. SFRC has some cheap NEA lowers I just noticed in the EE. Finish is light so Ryan is kicking them out the door. Couldn't resist so I bought two (Hungry is that you in my head) I have a NORC CQ (just put together) so these will be my step into the mainstream AR world. Later.
Blem NEA lowers at SFRC.
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pauly want a cracker?
Anemic black is the color?
Word on the street is these aren't defective lowers. NEA was selling mad units to their overseas contacts. This batch was destined for England. The colour was picked for this contract to fit in with the England environment. They call it the "spotted ####" model. Now it's available to us. I understand it's being rebranded as a Vancouver winter camo grey.
Really this is a feature. The lucky ones who can find the prized matching uppers which are hidden in select already released to the public regular carbines will have the rare collectable version after matching them. I heard there's a contest going to be announced soon sort of like finding the lucky can or key idea.
I can't validate this but so far these are the rumours. Very creative marketting ploy at work.
Really this is a feature. The lucky ones who can find the prized matching uppers which are hidden in select already released to the public regular carbines will have the rare collectable version after matching them. I heard there's a contest going to be announced soon sort of like finding the lucky can or key idea.
I can't validate this but so far these are the rumours. Very creative marketting ploy at work.
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Check the specs - it's their Type III Hard(ly) Anodized 
Check the specs - it's their Type III Hard(ly) Anodized
Wouldn't the lighter color indicate they had been anodized more, rather than less?
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depends on the colour of the dye they used, straight anodizing turns metal a burnished gold colour.... so maybe the die was off... or maybe they did not anodize properly.
one the surface hardness will be good if the dye was the issue.... if not fully anodized then there will surface hardness issues.
At work, all our undyed anodizing, or clear anodizing is more of a very light grey colour. Mind you, that's not hard anodizing. The standard hard anodizing (undyed) comes out as a dark grey colour (not black).
One thing I've always wondered with hard anodizing AR receivers is that I understood that the mil-spec for them called for them not to be sealed after anodizing, but most ARs looks like they have been sealed.
The ones that I made that got anodized at the same place that does Colt Canada's aren't sealed and have a more 'charcoal' look to them than a 'standard' AR.
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