Keeping Maccabee takedown screw tight

purplezuk said:
I seriously cannot believe people are still investing in this turd of a receiver set.

Maybe if mdi would focus on making a quality product, rather than spending their time photographing their hot sister at the cnc machine or the big ### ford truck , they could actually deliver something worth owning.

They have successfully made NEA look like a quality product, and that takes some unique skills!
Very glad I cancelled all 5 of my mdi preorders and went with a company who actually knows what they are doing.
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Nailed it. Sub par NEA quality at top shelf pricing.

She didn't look that hot to me but taste is individual, but certainly did look like WCB would lose their shiite if any REAL machine op were dressed like that. Absolutely ZERO protective gear. No safety glasses and IF Ugg makes steel toed mocassins that is news to me.
I fully believe there are some female machinists, just as I know there are some female welders and mechanics so it is not a stetch to buy her possibly running a mill, but dressed in yoga attire seems to make it much harder to believe. I think IF there was any sort of accident somebody would have some very serious problems on his hands.
I know an owner can opt out of WCB, but doubt it extends to family.
 
Got mine last week, I made it work but did have a couple hiccups....

1. The helicoil jammed up my receiver basically locking it up. After prying it apart, I noticed the helicoil was partially out of the hole which jammed my upper and lower together. I ended up chipping some of the cerakote off when I had to forcefully pry the upper and lower apart. In Maccabee's defence I probably over tightened the screw causing the helicoil to pry out of place. Anyway, I am now waiting on a helicoil kit to replace the one I wrecked.

2. The slit in the "trigger box" was not wide enough to fit my hammer through. I ended up filing a couple millimeters off the edges of the trigger box slit and now it works like a charm.

3. Bolt release pin hole was very tight, I got a hairline crack in the receiver when I jammed the pin into place, functions fine but kind of a pain aesthetically speaking (This problem could have been avoided if I were a little more patient).

Prior to my mishaps the cerakote finish was very nice, now I have a silver chip near the take down screw and a tiny silver crack along the bolt catch pin hole. My poor mans fix... I used a sharpie to dab some ink into the crack and chip so its less noticeable.

If anyone is wondering, it is a newer receiver set mid 400's.
 
no-one special said:
Nailed it. Sub par NEA quality at top shelf pricing.

She didn't look that hot to me but taste is individual, but certainly did look like WCB would lose their shiite if any REAL machine op were dressed like that. Absolutely ZERO protective gear. No safety glasses and IF Ugg makes steel toed mocassins that is news to me.
I fully believe there are some female machinists, just as I know there are some female welders and mechanics so it is not a stetch to buy her possibly running a mill, but dressed in yoga attire seems to make it much harder to believe. I think IF there was any sort of accident somebody would have some very serious problems on his hands.
I know an owner can opt out of WCB, but doubt it extends to family.
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Once the machine is set up you could literally teach a monkey to operate it. Pretty much all factories are like that....lots of operators (green button pushers as we call them) and a handful of machinists. There is a world of difference between machinists and operators.

The company and products aside, we all know WCB is a damn protection racket for employers. I hate it with a passion and have never met anyone who is of a different opinion. (Especially those who have had to deal with it personally.)
Seems like safety today is simply about making us entirely unproductive, and uncompetative. I speak from personal experience as I watch my company slowly circle the drain into maddening oblivion and bankruptcy.

I miss the days when I could actually build things instead of spending them on paperwork and inspections and hazard huddles and "Why aren't you wearing gloves around your lathe (yes this actually happened) rotating at 500rpm?" I dunno why dont I also shove my head into the machine? That would at least spare me the the pain of slowly bleeding to death after the glove you want me to wear gets caught and rips my arm off.

As Mike Rowe would say, you have not fully accepted the warm embrace of complacency until you buy into the ludicrous idea that some busy body in the safety department upstairs actually cares more about your personal safety than you do.
 
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TrevorF, Did you buy the Gunworx build kit or did you buy your own parts? Just curious.
I know the build kit parts seem to fit better than other standard parts when it comes to tolerances.
Not sure why... I’m sure if I were a little more patient with my build I could have avoided the problems I had.
 
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7.62mm said:
I seem to be in the minority as well....Had to trim a little off the trigger box to make my desired trigger to work, but it all went together without a hitch
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Went together without a hitch....... Except you had to remove material to make parts fit.......
I've never built an AR that needed material removed to make parts fit, so I find it very comical that so many are standing up for this product when it's obviously a poorly designed product with terrible tolerances...
 
Brots said:
TrevorF, Did you buy the Gunworx build kit or did you buy your own parts? Just curious.
I know the build kit parts seem to fit better than other standard parts when it comes to tolerances.
Not sure why... I’m sure if I were a little more patient with my build I could have avoided the problems I had.
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I started with a DD LPK then added a Geissele. I wouldn't buy their kit because they wouldn't tell me who made the parts in their kit. I wasn't paying the same price as a known brand name LPK only to get Norc quality. Not saying they used Norc parts but since they wouldn't tell me where they got their parts and were deleting my posts on the SLR builders page on FB I opted to vote with my dollars.
 
purplezuk said:
Went together without a hitch....... Except you had to remove material to make parts fit.......
I've never built an AR that needed material removed to make parts fit, so I find it very comical that so many are standing up for this product when it's obviously a poorly designed product with terrible tolerances...
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To play devils advocate here, you didn't build an AR. It doesn't have AR tolerances... You said you never had to remove material from an AR before, well you still haven't.
According to the Calgary shooting center I got the first one in the wild. I would have liked the magwell to be AR spec, but again, I didn't buy an AR, I bought an SLR so I accept what I got. Mine went together without a hitch. I used quality parts and got a quality rifle. The SLR is simply an AR parts holder, nothing more, nothing less. The better the parts you use, the better the gun. Is it expensive, yup. We're paying a NR tax on it for sure. All said, I'm into mine for over $3k. No regrets.
 
purplezuk said:
Went together without a hitch....... Except you had to remove material to make parts fit.......
I've never built an AR that needed material removed to make parts fit, so I find it very comical that so many are standing up for this product when it's obviously a poorly designed product with terrible tolerances...
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Yeah, it is a new design....they probably didn't have the trigger I wanted to use on hand when they designed the trigger box...if I had of used a milspec trigger, probably wouldn't have been a problem.....some people just want and desire to find fault where ever they can find it,
 
TrevorF said:
To play devils advocate here, you didn't build an AR. It doesn't have AR tolerances... You said you never had to remove material from an AR before, well you still haven't.
According to the Calgary shooting center I got the first one in the wild. I would have liked the magwell to be AR spec, but again, I didn't buy an AR, I bought an SLR so I accept what I got. Mine went together without a hitch. I used quality parts and got a quality rifle. The SLR is simply an AR parts holder, nothing more, nothing less. The better the parts you use, the better the gun. Is it expensive, yup. We're paying a NR tax on it for sure. All said, I'm into mine for over $3k. No regrets.
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YES Exactly well said
 
You bought a receiver set that uses Ar mags, but didn’t fit at mags... congratulations

I have the first sporter in the Wild, everything fits, every mag I could possibly find fits and drops free.......... and no grinding, buffing, drilling or any other modification was required.

I’m not the one finding fault in the product, the product itself is showing the faults...
it’s a $1000 disaster, that some are happy with
 
purplezuk said:
Went together without a hitch....... Except you had to remove material to make parts fit.......
I've never built an AR that needed material removed to make parts fit, so I find it very comical that so many are standing up for this product when it's obviously a poorly designed product with terrible tolerances...
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He trimmed to get “his” choice of trigger to fit and not the recommended trigger. It is on the website that not all triggers will fit. That is on the owner and not the OEM.

It is not an AR and 100% compatibilite. We know that.
 
TrevorF said:
To play devils advocate here, you didn't build an AR. It doesn't have AR tolerances... You said you never had to remove material from an AR before, well you still haven't.
According to the Calgary shooting center I got the first one in the wild. I would have liked the magwell to be AR spec, but again, I didn't buy an AR, I bought an SLR so I accept what I got. Mine went together without a hitch. I used quality parts and got a quality rifle. The SLR is simply an AR parts holder, nothing more, nothing less. The better the parts you use, the better the gun. Is it expensive, yup. We're paying a NR tax on it for sure. All said, I'm into mine for over $3k. No regrets.
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Good post!
 
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