Idiot of the Year award goes to me. Installed gas tube with the hole facing wrong way

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As title says. Went to shoot my Stag 10 this weekend and it was a bolt action. Had to cycle it myself everything. Took the gas block off tonight and realized the tube was facing the wrong way. Don’t ask how I didn’t realize when I assembled it the first time when the tube wasn’t curving the right way lol. I’m not sure if I’m gonna be able to get the roll pin out, turn the tub the right way and get the roll pin back in because I feel like the roll pin might break. So I thought, could I just drill a new port in the tube while its still in the gas block. It would be perfectly aligned. Biggest concern is if gas would leak out the block through the top. Am I #### out of luck and should just get a new gas block and tube?
 
There's no reason you can't tap the roll pin out and reuse it.

Your biggest concern should be whether or not your gas tube is bent.
 
I agree with jiff as long as your gas tube isn't bent you can reuse it and don't worry man I did the same thing numerous times, I still tried it with my adjustable gas block from TNA
 
Struggled to get the roll pin in there in the first place. Will attempt to get it out. Might buy a new gas tube just in case though
 
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Struggled to get the roll pin in there in the first place. Will attempt to get it out. Might buy a new gas tube just in case though
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Don't tap the pin out all the way. Take it slow and only tap it out enough to remove the gas tube. This way you don't have to try and start the pin again.

If that doesn't work for you needlenose pliers are your friend :)
 
I've done two stupid things I can think of. One was a gas tube I installed upside down and the other was a gas block I installed the pins in backwards. They were on two different rifles. I caught the upside down gas tube right away and fixed it in a few minutes. The gas block pins I didn't catch that until I made it to the range. The rifle length gas tube was at UPS so I made a pilgrimage to the UPS store early in the morning and walked there. Picked up my gas tube, walked home, and installed the gas tube into my M16 AR build. However, I didn't realize the pins were in backwards until I looked down the sight at the range to see the front sight block was canted way off to the right. I cranked the windage dial on the carry handle and I was still only hitting the far left corner of the paper at 25M. I was surprised that the gun was cycling well because that gas tap must be choked hard for it to be canted off like that. Shot about 20rds just to see how it was grouping at 25 and then went home. Took me just a few minutes to hammer the pins back out and flip them to the other side.
 
If that's the dumbest thing that someone ever did while assembling an AR.............well, you're not doing that bad ;)
 
Not an AR, but I recently took my new JR carbine tot he range. I had just installed a bunch of new furniture and cleaned it all up. Go to shoot and click. NADA. Try again. Nothing. No Mark's on primers. Well I never shot it that day. Got home and took it apart to realize I had dropped the washer for the charging handle screw. This allowed the screw to go deep enough into the bolt that it actually held the firing pin preventing it from moving when the hammer hit it. ####ty move but I fixed her up and she ran perfect on my next couple outings.
 
YellowSnow15 said:
As title says. Went to shoot my Stag 10 this weekend and it was a bolt action. Had to cycle it myself everything. Took the gas block off tonight and realized the tube was facing the wrong way. Don’t ask how I didn’t realize when I assembled it the first time when the tube wasn’t curving the right way lol. I’m not sure if I’m gonna be able to get the roll pin out, turn the tub the right way and get the roll pin back in because I feel like the roll pin might break. So I thought, could I just drill a new port in the tube while its still in the gas block. It would be perfectly aligned. Biggest concern is if gas would leak out the block through the top. Am I #### out of luck and should just get a new gas block and tube?
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Pictures...??? What was the other end of the gas tube hooked up to? If it was facing towards the muzzle?
 
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