NEA-15 Receivers

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Can anyone provide any details on the colour of the NEA receivers? I ordered an NEA-15 stripped lower online, and haven't yet decided on an upper. I probably should have done a bit more reading prior to ordering it, but it was cheap and I couldn't find stripped lowers in stock anywhere. Now that I look at more pics, it appears that it is actually grey in colour, which means it won't look right with a different upper.

I'm also now reading that some people have had issues with NEA lowers not fitting properly with some uppers, which doesn't sound good, but I guess that would be pretty obvious right from the beginning.

Thanks
 
I can't speak from recent experience, but I had one of the first generation ones and it was slightly grayer. You shouldn't have any problems with the actual fit on any upper though.
 
flipincanadian said:
I have what I believe is an early NEA carbine and both the upper and lower are black.
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This is the image from the one I bought online, which actually doesn't look that grey. Does yours look like this?
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And then I see a pic like this and the contrast between black and grey looks horrible:
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1) flash photography won't depict how the gun will actually look.
2) If you are building a parts gun, you need to get over "matching" hues of aluminum. It's a shooter parts gun valued for the sum of its parts, not some misdirected factory matching notion of appeal.
3) NEA has, in various batches, produced guns with color variance - before hitting the panic button, wait and see what shows up before going ballistic.
5) Even if you get the best NEA ever made, there are 3 or 4 predicatble CGN "personalities" who will imminently arrive in this thread to tell you how bad an idea it was to buy one and that your male anatomy will shortly thereafter fall off because you did not buy a $3000 KAC AR.

Seriously though, wait until it's in-hand before deciding anything.
 
Thanks, good advice. I hadn't bothered to think about colour since this is my first build, and was just curious. I have seen slightly mismatched uppers/lowers before, but the grey on the NEA looked a bit more drastic. Will wait and see how it looks when I get it.
 
I got an NEA stripped lower just before xmas. The colour is slightly grey, but I haven't put any oil on it and it is very dry. I'm told a coating of oil darkens it right up, then wipes clean.

As for being out of spec, everything on my LPK from Daniel Defense fit prefectly, and my spikes tactical upper fits nice and snugly.
 
Good to hear about the fit, I think some of the issues with fit/tolerances were fairly remote. Interesting about the oil.
 
Claven2 hit it on the nose. Especially with #5, don't let them dissuade you, NEA is a great value. My hand guard is deffinitelly more gray than the upper/lower but it really doesn't bother me because it doesn't affect function. You can kind of tell that the hand guard is slightly lighter in this photo:

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I cant speak for the actual NEA lower but I have had a few NEA pieces with quite a contrast in finish. Stock adapter for a XCR was very well finished and matched perfectly with black finish of the rifle, a railed stock adapter I purchased for another rifle has a very greyed finish.

Like Claven2 mentioned a flash can really throw off the picture and no matter what anybody says about a NEA product, I personally have only had good experiences.
 
Everyone who says it's black is wearing rose colored glasses - it's very dark gray.

It's not a bad thing, it's just not black. I actually kinda like the grey atm, like the Jack BCM carbine. My next build will be a wolf gray color cerakote.
 
its not that its grey that makes it not match, its that most other ar parts are a smoother, kinda more glossy finish.
ive got a areo lower with a NEA upper, and a nea lower with nea upper.
you can see a diference, but not bad.
either way, i think im painting the upper FDE.
hope this pic helps
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My AR-15 consists of a Spike's Tactical upper, lower, handguard and bolt carrier group. Both receivers don't even match and they're from the same company. I wouldn't worry about colour matching, these are rifles.
 
You know, it's funny... before some of the modern "designer" AR's started to come out (i.e. Noveske, KAC, DD, etc.), people used to gush over the fact that their original Colts were grey and poo-poo on the cheaper "black finish" used by Shrubmaster, DPMS and others.

Those who understand Type III hardcoat anodizing processes just chuckle and buy according to more important factors than the exact hue of the rifle ;)
 
Claven2 said:
You know, it's funny... before some of the modern "designer" AR's started to come out (i.e. Noveske, KAC, DD, etc.), people used to gush over the fact that their original Colts were grey and poo-poo on the cheaper "black finish" used by Shrubmaster, DPMS and others.

Those who understand Type III hardcoat anodizing processes just chuckle and buy according to more important factors than the exact hue of the rifle ;)
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I use a cleaning product intended to remove cured Portland Cement. When used on aluminum it leaves a very black hue to the aluminum that looks very much like anodizing.
 
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