NEA Parts Quality?

Claven2 said:
Thread? Hardly. I saw it happen to a Colt HBAR 5 years ago at the Stittsville Shooting Range. Guys next to me on the firing line. Supposedly with American Eagle ammo, but could have been an overcharge (?).

In Gagetown we also saw the occasional diemaco lose a lug after (presumably) many hundreds of rounds. Bolt would be replaced, life would carry on.

450 rds is a very low mean shots to failure though. Not to be considered a normal rate.
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thats great, thanks for the link to the thread. That is probably not uncommon for a service rifle, that has fired how many hundreds of thousands of rounds, with the option of FA. I can then understand a part breaking under those circumstances.
but a new gun, with 450 rounds fired, should not fail like this.....unless you are still buying, and installing junk into your guns, then selling them as a new, superdeedooper next generation gun. which is the case here, or not, cause i guess he has said, no it is not the new guns, that was ONCE again old stock....:rolleyes:
im not buying it, nor am i buying any NEA product.
 
deadman said:
Well, despite all the comments about questionable quality, I'm trying a bcg from NEA. There doesn't seem to be a surplus available these days and the choices on this side of the border are limited.
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yeah reconstructive surgery to the face, is well worth the few bucks you would save. spend the extra 50$, buy a name brand. there is a RRA BCG in the EE now for 150$.
 
jdman said:
..unless you are still buying, and installing junk into your guns, then selling them as a new, superdeedooper next generation gun.
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:mad::mad::mad:Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but if you are referring to ME doing THIS, then an apology is in order, either that or go bone up on Canada's libel laws. :mad::mad::mad:

Or post evidence that I have been providing garbage parts to customers in my gun builds - which you can't, because I don't.
 
Claven2 said:
:mad::mad::mad:Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but if you are referring to ME doing THIS, then an apology is in order, either that or go bone up on Canada's libel laws. :mad::mad::mad:

Or post evidence that I have been providing garbage parts to customers in my gun builds - which you can't, because I don't.
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LOL, how did you get that i was referring to you doing this?

i didnt even know you built guns, and sold them. :runaway:
better get yourself a dealer acct though now. :p
 
jdman said:
yeah reconstructive surgery to the face, is well worth the few bucks you would save. spend the extra 50$, buy a name brand. there is a RRA BCG in the EE now for 150$.
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Just when people thought it was safe to go back into the NEA water... So now we can add catastrophic bolt failures to the list. And to think these guns sell for $2,450 in South Africa...
 
blaxsun said:
Just when people thought it was safe to go back into the NEA water... So now we can add catastrophic bolt failures to the list. And to think these guns sell for $2,450 in South Africa...
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I was even considering buying one of their stripped lowers (when they would be back in stock)... guess that won't happen neither. lol
 
I have seen Diemaco bolts fail after a 1-2000 rounds. Brand new rifles for Bisley. NEVER fired full auto. NEVER took anyones face off. a couple lugs, a single lug, blown extractors....
This is going nowhere fast, and I am enjoying it!
 
blaxsun said:
Just when people thought it was safe to go back into the NEA water... So now we can add catastrophic bolt failures to the list. And to think these guns sell for $2,450 in South Africa...
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im at 350 rounds on my new NEA as of today.
will dump another 300 by the end of the weekend...ill keep you updated, im just about to pull her apart, i just got home from the range, but she is running great (as i expected)
 
ez8 said:
im at 350 rounds on my new NEA as of today.
will dump another 300 by the end of the weekend...ill keep you updated, im just about to pull her apart, i just got home from the range, but she is running great (as i expected)
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If you have an NEA, and it's working fine for you - great. The problem here is the continual "unknown" factor for all new prospective owners: Are you getting a Canada Post queen or something even potentially worse? This is what, the 3rd... 4th generation now where QC has supposedly been improved? Yet we're seeing a new batch of problems, including out-of-spec lowers and more problems with supplier-sourced parts. Again.

We are never ever ever getting back together. Like ever... Never, ever. ;)
 
Mac said:
I have seen Diemaco bolts fail after a 1-2000 rounds. Brand new rifles for Bisley. NEVER fired full auto. NEVER took anyones face off. a couple lugs, a single lug, blown extractors....
This is going nowhere fast, and I am enjoying it!
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so, you have no problems shelling out 1000$+ for the possibility this could happen to you?
 
blaxsun said:
...The problem here is the continual "unknown" factor for all new prospective owners: Are you getting a Canada Post queen or something even potentially worse? This is what, the 3rd... 4th generation now where QC has supposedly been improved? Yet we're seeing a new batch of problems, including out-of-spec lowers and more problems with supplier-sourced parts. Again...
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Do you and JDman suffer from the same form of selective reading disorder? Seriously guys, the poster with the "supplier-sourced parts" said himself that his rifle is a second gen version.

B said:
If there were three runs as I think there has been mine would have been from the second FWIW...
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The out of spec lower is a new one but how on earth does that bolt qualify as part of a "new batch of problems"?
 
Runningfool said:
Do you and JDman suffer from the same form of selective reading disorder? Seriously guys, the poster with the "supplier-sourced parts" said himself that his rifle is a second gen version.
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Second gen, third gen... I honestly have no idea what we're on - only that QC issues keep cropping up. Do we count "half" generations where first or second gens were recalled/retrofitted? I guess it's good that the extended warranty is transferable... :rolleyes:

The out of spec lower is a new one but how on earth does that bolt qualify as part of a "new batch of problems"?
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Raise your hand if you've personally experienced a comparable bolt failure at 450 rounds. On any firearm. Anyone? Anyone...?
 
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