Please help a newby. Installing a muzzle device.

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Hello. I just recently purchased a VG6 gamma muzzle break. From what ive watched on youtube, i found out that when installing the break it needs to have the slots pointing up and the logo to the bottom. But when i just screw mine onto the barrel, i end up having the logo on top. Im not sure what the problem is? Is it the break or the barrel? But My barrel is a DD, i doubt its the barrel.

What do i do?
 
You need to put a crush washer between the break and the barrel.
Wrench it down, back it off a little, wrench it down again and repeat until it is properly aligned.
Might want to use something like a vice or magwell vice to hold your rifle down to keep it from moving to ensure its the break is aligned
 
Yeah 7 hours is nothing. When I did mine I almost went 360 degrees. Just remember the crush washer is one time use if you index too far and need to go back you'll need another one.

Also the magpul bev block is a great product.
 
nosty said:
Will it work? I need to turn it for another 7 hours. The logo is at 11 when i hand tighten it. It needs to be at 6.
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lol, I guess you cant make this sh!t up
you cant hand tighten a muzzle device!
otherwise your muzzle device will eventually follow the bullet on a flight path!
you need to use a wrench and a vice
would you use your hand to tighten the nuts on your car wheel when changing a flat tire?
same principle
 
mikethebike said:
lol, I guess you cant make this sh!t up
you cant hand tighten a muzzle device!
otherwise your muzzle device will eventually follow the bullet on a flight path!
you need to use a wrench and a vice
would you use your hand to tighten the nuts on your car wheel when changing a flat tire?
same principle
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I know i never said that i only hand tighten it. Maybe it just came out wrong. What i meant was this: i watched a video on how to install that particular break. And in the video you tighten it by hand and the break only needs to be tightened another 45 degrees with a wranch to be in the proper position. Mine is not like that. I hand tighten it and it needs about 195 degrees instead of only 45. So i dont know whether i can tighten it with a wrench that much.
 
You can usually get a crush washer to crush over 360 degrees (unless you have one of the bad batch of DPMS ones that seemed to have been made from hardened tool steel lol)

If you can remove it by hand......it's not tight enough :)
 
I would like to know what you think of that device. I've got the BCM mod 0 on mine (and it's...ok) but I hear this VG6 is pretty good. Let us know what you think of it.
 
Don't use a magwell vice block as some suggested (unless it is the bev type). If you're really cranking on your brake, like it sounds like you are, bad things can happen if you're securing your rifle via a magwell block. You should have the barrel in the vice or use a "reaction rod" when changing the muzzle device.
 
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Runningfool said:
You should have the barrel in the vice or use a "reaction rod" when changing the muzzle device.
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I made a soft jaw set up for holding AR barrels by drilling a 3/4" hole in a scrap piece of 2x4, then splitting it with a saw on the centerline of the hole. That provides a safe, easy way to clamp a standard AR barrel for working on things like muzzle devices for the cost of a scrap piece of wood and a few minutes of time.


Mark
 
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