Front sight... grr... Allen Key?

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My front sight appears to be in the wrong place on my norc. A little off center. So I decided to loosen it and knock it around a bit. Well... I tried every allen key I own and none of them really fit it.

What size is it? I will have to go buy one. Don't really want to bring the rifle into the hardware store. Can someone tell me what size allen key I need?
 
And there is a reason I always bring up the subject of 'which high school shop class' put your rifle together. Many things are more miss than hit, but the hits are money saving...such as a great receiver, great metallurgy (for the most part), super op rod, decent trigger group, decent gas cylinder, service accuracy barrels with a few surprises, improved rear sights over the 2002/2003/2005 batch, phasing out of the Chu wood mystery stocks, great handguards, did I mention great metallurgy on the receiver? :D

Some of the misses are : Kommunist thread patterns LOL, drilled off center rear apertures, s2pid fzcking set screw on the right side of receiver ring (go and have a look), inconsistent QC with the allen head screws/bolts, sometimes goofy parkerizing, high school shop class welding on flash suppressors.

BUT (big but) hey, for the $ 400 ish.... who give a shzt? It's a great platform to launch 7.62mm magic at the zombies! Or kidnapping octopus zombies... inside joke (see my Funker Tactical video on YouTube) LOL

Cheers,
Barney
 
Martin248 said:
My front sight appears to be in the wrong place on my norc. A little off center. So I decided to loosen it and knock it around a bit. Well... I tried every allen key I own and none of them really fit it.

What size is it? I will have to go buy one. Don't really want to bring the rifle into the hardware store. Can someone tell me what size allen key I need?
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Might be a metric allen key. Chances are if your imperial allen keys don't fit perfectly one of the metric keys will.

You should be able to buy a whole set at Crappy Tire or Princess Auto for less than $5 and they do come in handy if you're working on foreign (eg. Japanese) cars as well.
 
Im pretty sure they are imperial I used a can tire one that came in a set. Always get a set of allen keys. My sight was off center too and as the poster above mentioned the peep hole on my rear sight is off center. (this doesn't bother me though since it will end up with a scope).

I would love to see a comprehensive breakdown video with all the appropriate safety checks on a new rifle.
 
fnrob said:
I just checked mine, and a 3/32 allen key seems to work for it.
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Yup, that worked. I went to walmart and it turns out you can buy every possible size of allen wrench in a little kit so that's what I did. 3/32 turns out to be the winner, guess I just didn't have that size previously.
 
Hungry said:
And there is a reason I always bring up the subject of 'which high school shop class' put your rifle together.
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The funny thing is they even marked the front sight with a little notch showing where they had originally set it. Like, it was on purpose set a good 5mm off to one side of center. I actually used a laser bore sight to put it roughly where it should be and--magic--where it should be has the front sight screw line up directly with the little hole on the flash hider.

BUT (big but) hey, for the $ 400 ish.... who give a shzt? It's a great platform to launch 7.62mm magic at the zombies!
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Hey I'm not complaining! It was pretty good out of the box, and now with a properly aligned front sight hopefully it'll even be better!

I love my norc, I don't mind fiddling with it, and maybe one of these days I will have replaced so many parts that it's not really a Chinese rifle anymore.

So far I've replaced the oprod spring guide, the stock, fixed the front sight now, and have a USGI rear sight on the way. How many other platforms are this user serviceable?
 
I ran into the same problem with mine and after going through all my metric and standard allen keys (I have multiple sets) I gave up trying it the nice way. A reverse cut drill bit in my cordless drill got that sucker out in 1 second.
 
I found the same problem with all my allen key sets (both metric and SAE). Nothing worked. I just drilled out that entire set screw with a 1/8" drill bit and with a slow turning drill with cutting oil, I weakened that set screw entirely that the castle nut was free to turn. Now the Nochinko flash suppressor has a 1/8" hole where the castle nut set screw used to be.

I tossed the chinese flash suppressor into the scrap bin and I had a spare M1A flash suppressor to install and I still used that Norc factory castle nut. :D

I hope you don't have to do the extreme fix that I just pulled... but it works! Always keep spare parts in case you mess up, my retired M14 High Master Coach would say! :)

Cheers,
Barney
 
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