I'm no expert but...

na1lb0hm

na1lb0hm

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I'd say a shim or a flip is required. and a better clean.

I'm kicking myself for not checking this earlier.
So easy to do, I got a full turn and extra out of it. That might be responsible for less than stellar accuracy hey?

I guess I'm posting this to show m14 newbies ( like myself) not to take anything for granted with their rifle and spend 5 minutes to check it.

On a side note, I worked at the GD flash hider for two hours, it must have been "bring your kids to work and practice welding on na1lb0hm's flash hider day" when this thing was built. I think I found one of the more difficult ones to remove, starting to think that it's not actually slipped on there and I've got a rare "flash hider actually machined as part of the barrel"

Used a barrel vise, hammer,punch and drill and still haven't got it. Going to try switching to chisel and everything tonight.
 
Doogs said:
Not to insult your intelligence, but did you remove the castle nut on the flash hider?
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hahaha. No insult taken. I watched the video about ten times to find just what step I was missing.
Yes, I did remove the set screw, and backed the castle nut off.
 
Back the castle nut off a few times in between beating on it.I used a steel punch and a BFH (Big friggin Hammer) and kept the punch on the lug on the bottom of the falshhider .
Dont be afraid to hit it really hard.I have removed 4 of them this way without any damage to the flashiders.
 
chalkriver said:
Back the castle nut off a few times in between beating on it.I used a steel punch and a BFH (Big friggin Hammer) and kept the punch on the lug on the bottom of the falshhider .
Dont be afraid to hit it really hard.I have removed 4 of them this way without any damage to the flashiders.[/QUOTE]

Luck you...two of my three left part of the FH behind when it broke free of the barrel. Therefore becoming shorties :p:)
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na1lb0hm said:
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I'd say a shim or a flip is required. and a better clean.

I'm kicking myself for not checking this earlier.
So easy to do, I got a full turn and extra out of it. That might be responsible for less than stellar accuracy hey?

I guess I'm posting this to show m14 newbies ( like myself) not to take anything for granted with their rifle and spend 5 minutes to check it.

On a side note, I worked at the GD flash hider for two hours, it must have been "bring your kids to work and practice welding on na1lb0hm's flash hider day" when this thing was built. I think I found one of the more difficult ones to remove, starting to think that it's not actually slipped on there and I've got a rare "flash hider actually machined as part of the barrel"

Used a barrel vise, hammer,punch and drill and still haven't got it. Going to try switching to chisel and everything tonight.
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Flip it. It worked like a charm on mine. It looked the same as yours but after flipping I had to use a bit of force to screw it back on.
 
chalkriver said:
Back the castle nut off a few times in between beating on it.I used a steel punch and a BFH (Big friggin Hammer) and kept the punch on the lug on the bottom of the falshhider .
Dont be afraid to hit it really hard.I have removed 4 of them this way without any damage to the flashiders.
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It's hit or miss (hyuk) I watched someone break their flash hider on the first attempt and they were being careful.
 
In order to break the flash hider welds I used a Powerbuilt tie rod/ball joint seperator.

I ground the inside of the tines until they fit perfectly around the barrel. (I also ground a little more at the appropriate spots to use it as a gas cylinder wrench)

All I had to do was place the wrench handle on the work bench, hold the rifle with my hand and use a hammer to hit the ends of the wrench's tines.

I did 4 rifles like that; 1 had minimal welding but the other three had the typical two spot "tough" welds. All four came off with a few raps of the hammer and very little damage to the flash hider itself.
 
No worry's call Dlask and he will take care of the screwed up barell, with in-proper flash hidder removal atempt and at the same get his new front gas lock that takes care of the problem in the photo.
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As for people tring to get them flash hidders off there is 1 man I call the...
"King" of flash hidder removal. And he goes by the name of powmia56.
He is so famous that there is a youtube video on this U.S.A. Navy vet. banging them off.
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P.S. His "Freedom Isn't Free" M14 shirts goes along way to supporting the troops ;)
Shamless plug for you powmia56 :p
 
I did get the flash hider off last night. It took a drill and a sacrificed spanner.
I fit the open end over the bayo lug, I forget the size, but it kept it from sliding around/ falling off. This was way less d*cking around to hammer the thing off.

When I finally got the thing off, there were TWO large piles of the silver solder. The gas lock can't be flipped. I did and it's nowhere close.

Satain, I've been eyeing up that dlask gas lock for a while now... even more now because I think I'm going to bypass the shims and go straight for it.
 
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