Where to find stainless steel safety detent pin for AR15 ?

[Malta1911]

Hi all,
Looking for some stainless steel safety detent pins for my ars.

I'd also be interested to hear people's thoughts/experiences on/with standard pins vs stainless.

Brendan

 

[rchmontreal]

What are the advantages to installing a stainless steel safety detent over the original detent? Just curious?

The selector switch itself rarely causes any issues in function. I've handled and fired multiple rifles that have fired incredibly high numbers of rounds. Gas rings, extractors, cam pins, firing pin retaining pins and bolt head lugs can break or fail. Never a selector switch, though the ambi switch retaining screw does once in a blue moon loosen up....

 

[*MALICE*]

What's wrong with the standard brass ones?

 

[Trinimon]

I'm using the SS (I htink it is) one that came in my BAD ambi safety. Don't really notice a diff between that and the non-SS one.

 

[Blastattack]

What's wrong with the standard brass ones?

They're not brass, they're steel.

 

[*MALICE*]

They're not brass, they're steel.

I had always assumed they were brass based off the colour........ but now that you say that, the colour does look like a zinc coating.


Now I'm going to have to go home and check mine with a magnet

 

[Blastattack]

I had always assumed they were brass based off the colour........ but now that you say that, the colour does look like a zinc coating.


Now I'm going to have to go home and check mine with a magnet

The yellow color is likely due to heat treatment, though it could be a surface treatment. Detents are generally hardened, and it was likely tempered at a low temperature to give it the most durability. Low tempering temperatures around 400F/200C result on that yellowish straw color.

 

[pringles613]

probably would end up having problems with the SS before you ever would with the Steel as SS is softer........

 

[*MALICE*]

duplicate

 

[*MALICE*]

The yellow color is likely due to heat treatment, though it could be a surface treatment. Detents are generally hardened, and it was likely tempered at a low temperature to give it the most durability. Low tempering temperatures around 400F/200C result on that yellowish straw color.

I would assume a coating rather than discolouration from the hardening.

It would be odd that they didn't provide a surface treatment (phosphating/parkerizing) for those steel parts but did for every other steel part.

Having said that.....I was wrong about them being brass......so who knows

 

[Malta1911]

I will try to get a pic of what my battle arms Ambi safety did to a DD milspec detent. It was fine until I switched to the Ambi control. I bought it used and it didn't come with the stainless steel pin it's advertised to. It basically wore 2 grooves on opposing sides of the tip/point of the detent pin rendering it really sloppy.

 

[Blastattack]

I will try to get a pic of what my battle arms Ambi safety did to a DD milspec detent. It was fine until I switched to the Ambi control. I bought it used and it didn't come with the stainless steel pin it's advertised to. It basically wore 2 grooves on opposing sides of the tip/point of the detent pin rendering it really sloppy.

So that's because the detent is soft. Stainless steel is also generally soft, so I have no idea what you are trying to achieve. It sounds like you just need a properly in spec detent.

 

[Malta1911]

So that's because the detent is soft. Stainless steel is also generally soft, so I have no idea what you are trying to achieve. It sounds like you just need a properly in spec detent.[/QUOTE

Okayyy.. Couldn't you have just said you think the DD detent was likely out of spec? And why would you assume stainless steel is too soft if it's sold with thousands of BAD ASS units globally?