WK180 Gen 2 Broke Already

Wogger said:
None of that has anything to do with what I said. My particular rifle, with my particular trigger group, and my particular bolt, which is completely stock like OP’s rifle, it is impossible for my hammer to hit the receiver while shooting the rifle. That is very much a true statement. I’m not saying it’s impossible on your rifle or anyone else’s. Like I said “tolerances”
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Hey sorry , but you said it was impossible. I didn’t know you meant impossible for a factory installed trigger.
And who’s to say they use the same brand of triggers in all the rifles.

I’m just saying it’s not impossible as it happened to me.
I’m not sure if I’m explaining the problem correctly but if you compare the timney to other triggers you’d know what I m saying.
The timney is almost straight and only extends past the wall about a 1/16 of an inch ( not enough to make contact with the firing pin.
The ALG hammer extends about an 1/8 of an inch , past the wall ( enough to make contact with the firing pin).

Maybe his trigger is in the middle ( hitting the wall and the pin at the same time)
But should that aluminum wall be that weak that a trigger hammer would snap it off?

Anyway sorry but I didn’t mean to be rude, I should have worded it differently.
 
WarWolf said:
At the end of the day, I just want a functional rifle. I have faith KD will fix the issue. It's taken longer than I like for a response but they are busy with production and I recognize that.
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Just file that small piece of aluminum down so the bolt release moves freely again and enjoy shooting your new rifle.
 
Wogger said:
None of that has anything to do with what I said. My particular rifle, with my particular trigger group, and my particular bolt, which is completely stock like OP’s rifle, it is impossible for my hammer to hit the receiver while shooting the rifle. That is very much a true statement. I’m not saying it’s impossible on your rifle or anyone else’s. Like I said “tolerances”
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actually, i said tolerances first. you pre-supposed he did something stupid.
 
Is it possible it came that way and you did not notice before firing? Maybe idiot in factory dry firing lower receiver only.

Or you dry fired lower receiver…
 
scott said:
Is it possible it came that way and you did not notice before firing? Maybe idiot in factory dry firing lower receiver only.

Or you dry fired lower receiver…
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I'm now betting the latter. The OP isn't answering the question.
 
That aluminum is softer than a soy boy slurping a vegan smoothie. I’d be pissed about that as well considering the malfunction aspect of it let alone the damage. Regardless KD needs to figure that out.
 
WarWolf said:
I've answered this question multiple times, no need to answer it every time someone says something. Besides I grow bored of this thread as I've been talking to KD and even they are saying it shouldn't of done that.
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...so that's a yes.

Guy damages his own rifle, and blames the rifle. Sweet.
 
these are knock-off barbie guns, not fine swiss watches. they should be able to survive a couple pulls of the trigger without the upper on. EVERYONE has done this by accident; don't say you haven't.

assemble your wk and pull the trigger. now look in that big gaping hole in the side of your upper receiver. hammer should hit the bolt carrier (as well as the firing pin). steel on steel. at rest hammer may be pushed off the bolt carrier a bit by the firing pin spring pushing it back. however look at the gap between the hammer and the aluminum webbing in front of the trigger group. pretty small, hey? get some crud in there and expect light strikes.

so, hammer hits bolt carrier. bolt carrier rests on barrel extension, barrel extension attached to barrel, barrel fastened to receiver. that's lots of stacking tolerance that can throw off the relationship between the hammer and the bolt carrier. now, add some machining cleg that didn't get removed from the front of the receiver. barrel still torques down correctly but the cleg makes it sit a bit proud of the receiver. as a result bolt carrier sits a little further forward and hammer hits lower receiver instead. gun will still work because bolt still locks and caveman hammer has enough force to detonate primer, but lower takes a beating.

my point? it could easily be a quality control issue during assembly, or perhaps they pushed the tolerances a bit too close to the manufacturing margin of error when they designed their new upper/lower.
 
WarWolf said:
So I was super on the hype train for the Gen 2. I had purposely stayed away from MCRs, Gen1 180, and all other 180 rifles because I hadn't found one to my liking.

I got the first rifle my LGS was selling and took ot to the range over the long weekend. At first I was completely happy with the rifle, ergos were great, holding great groups and I was reaching out to the 500 yard gong no problem. Took my rifle home and notice my safety was being sticky, so I took my rifle apart and this is what I found.

https://ibb.co/RQrHBcV
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This is just from the hammer hitting the wall and I only shot 50 rounds. It may look minor but that's enough to pin my bolt release which then locks up my trigger group, which is causing issues with the safety to not work properly. It also raises the question of the heat treat for the rest of the receiver.

I've emailed and tried to call Kodiak Defense about this issue since Sunday and have yet to hear any word back. I'm usually not one to gripe but it's honestly frustrating deal with especially since you havent shot a 556 gun since 2020 to see.

I'm still giving Kodak Defense the benefit of the doubt but hopefully I hear from them soon.
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Here are WarWolf's pictures in-thread (add the lower case letter L just before the period that prefixes the file extension on imgur links to make a more forum-friendly size):
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