NEA Issues *WARNING*

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mg4201 said:
I have seen the pictures you posted of your gas key and tube. That kind of uneven wear is not consistent with a well made rifle.
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Kinda beaten that horse to death haven't you? It's performed without issue for more than 10,000 rounds (the majority of that being Norinco bulk 223) and continues to do so - to me, that is consistent with a well made rifle...I'm sure in another 40-50,000 rounds that uneven wear may amount to something, I'll just have to scrape up the $15 for a new gas tube at that time I guess ;)

When you get 10k rounds through your norc without a hiccup, please take detailed pics of your gas key and tube and share.
 
While I sympathise with you for your troubles with this rifle, I have one and have had absolutely no problems with it.
 
deagle2008 said:
Its funny they make weapons for LE and MIL, I wonder which LE/MIL they are talking about
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Somewhere in Africa me guessing...



It doesn't take a genius to figure out their rifles aren't made by people with an aerospace engineering background, just by looking at it you can tell they have no clue. The early rifles (the current ones still do) looked like someone had built the thing in his mom's basement, with a dremel.
 
Runningfool said:
Kinda beaten that horse to death haven't you? It's performed without issue for more than 10,000 rounds (the majority of that being Norinco bulk 223) and continues to do so - to me, that is consistent with a well made rifle...I'm sure in another 40-50,000 rounds that uneven wear may amount to something, I'll just have to scrape up the $15 for a new gas tube at that time I guess ;)

When you get 10k rounds through your norc without a hiccup, please take detailed pics of your gas key and tube and share.
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Do you expect ANYONE to believe that any rifle, let alone an NEA fired 10k rounds without a single incident?. that is just silly.
 
mg4201 said:
Do you expect ANYONE to believe that any rifle, let alone an NEA fired 10k rounds without a single incident?. that is just silly.
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Huh? You don't believe that any rifle can fire 10k rounds without having a rifle related failure?
Enough derailing of this thread. The details of the round count are in the other thread, if you have issue with that, bring it up there.
 
i own 4 ARs, so when i say this thing has been pain in the a$$ it has, Norc 14.5", PWS" 7.5 x39, NEA 7.5" 5.56, Colt 6920 16" at least i have other ones to keep me company while i wait for NEA service
 
We have three NEAs. One had some issues. NEA replaced the lower without any fuss and all is now good.

I assume that the rifle will be sent back and replaced.

I sure hope that rifle is not typical.
 
I think the worst part is that NEA's "replacement" parts seem to have just as high of a failure rate, I know one guy at my club who is on his 3rd bolt, all of them broke in the same spot at the cam pin.
 
Dsiwy said:
Gas tubes and keys dont wear out but thats another story...
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Gas tubes do wear out, the mushroom on the end will wear down flat over time if the gas key isn't perfectly aligned, causing gas leakage and short stroking issues.
 
A muzzle device getting split in half like that? Really? oh wow.... Hummm....

I never seen anything like that before...
 
Dietz said:
Gas tubes do wear out, the mushroom on the end will wear down flat over time if the gas key isn't perfectly aligned, causing gas leakage and short stroking issues.
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That nub being worn down will not cause short stroking, worn gas rings will. The little nub has nothing to due with sealing gases, only the vortex caused by a piston ring will due that. Work on thousands of C8s with that numb worn off and we never had any issues at all. Only time you should have to replace a gas tube is when you replace a worn barrel or when some idiot melted the gas tube from to much blank full auto fire.
 
Dsiwy said:
That nub being worn down will not cause short stroking, worn gas rings will. The little nub has nothing to due with sealing gases, only the vortex caused by a piston ring will due that. Work on thousands of C8s with that numb worn off and we never had any issues at all. Only time you should have to replace a gas tube is when you replace a worn barrel or when some idiot melted the gas tube from to much blank full auto fire.
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I confirm. I check for the little nub when I inspect C7s and C8s but they normally never cause any kind of problem whatsoever. If somebody has gas issues (which I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen this happen, including an artillery guy who's gas tube was literally pinned in upside down, maybe as a prank by somebody else), the little nub essentially had nothing to do with the issues. Colt Canada do indeed make some great rifles and carbines.
 
-[Crosshair]- said:
I confirm. I check for the little nub when I inspect C7s and C8s but they normally never cause any kind of problem whatsoever. If somebody has gas issues (which I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen this happen, including an artillery guy who's gas tube was literally pinned in upside down, maybe as a prank by somebody else), the little nub essentially had nothing to do with the issues. Colt Canada do indeed make some great rifles and carbines.
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I only ever seen 2 melted gas tube. And like Dsiwy said, it was caused by too many blanks in FA. But that was in the earlier spray and pray, frag and hose. Early urban operations.
 
The only NEA products I purchased was a stripped upper and lower. The Lower was $64 and the upper was $120. The rest of this rifle is various U.S. manufacturers. have not had a chance to shoot this baby out due to 200 feet of snow at the range :mad:

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