NEA free muzzle device :cool:

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So I'm new to ARs and just finished building one from a budget lower I got on sale at Christmas. Figured I should have the headspace checked out etc by someone with more experience than me. I took my gun to the local gunsmith who told me the bolt was fitting tight and headspace was iffy. The barrel was NEAs 10.5 inch heavy barrel... So contact NEA and they tell me send it on in and they will look at it. Get an email a few days latter saying barrel is fine bolt will work in and that they test fired it a bunch of times to make sure of it (they even included a video of the testing).
I email back and say thanks and ask them to send a bill for their time and effort...
A few days latter I get a package with my upper... No bill and a free muzzle device installed!
Never had service like that from anyone but you can bet from now on I'm buying NEA.
 
Uhhhhh what "gunsmith" did you send it to? Either headspace is within spec or it is not. Their is not really room for "iffy" in that equation. With hardened steel headspace gauge the bolt will either close or it will not. Isn't really anything in between.

The only real trick to an AR bbl is to remove the ejector from the bolt so it doesn't put pressure on the gauge.

I have seen some "gunsmiths" who are too cheap to buy a full set of gauges put tape on the back of a GO gauge to simulate a NO GO gauge. Of course the tape is soft and squishable so this could be the source of the "iffy" diagnosis. You should avoid that kind of "gunsmithing".

That NEA took the time and cost to look at such a bbl strikes me as extremely good natured on their part.
 
Suputin said:
Uhhhhh what "gunsmith" did you send it to? Either headspace is within spec or it is not. Their is not really room for "iffy" in that equation. With hardened steel headspace gauge the bolt will either close or it will not. Isn't really anything in between.

The only real trick to an AR bbl is to remove the ejector from the bolt so it doesn't put pressure on the gauge.

I have seen some "gunsmiths" who are too cheap to buy a full set of gauges put tape on the back of a GO gauge to simulate a NO GO gauge. Of course the tape is soft and squishable so this could be the source of the "iffy" diagnosis. You should avoid that kind of "gunsmithing".

That NEA took the time and cost to look at such a bbl strikes me as extremely good natured on their part.
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It was a local guy who has a good reputation. The bolt would stick when the Gauges were used so it seemed that there wasn't a good indication . I think my problem was that it was a very budget BCG and upper.
But, I agree very good natured .
 
Perhaps they sent you the wrong barrel and they're now trying to explain to another customer that they have no idea what happened to his barrel w/muzzle break? :)

J/K
 
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