"Guns are like neurosurgeons. When you need one, you need one badly."
Install it vertical using a Reaction rod, wrap a shop towel around the rod and gently tap on the upper receiver with a rubber mallet at the 1913 rail and pivot and it should come right off and land on the shop towel. (preventing the upper from smacking into the vice and being damaged.)
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I use bcm uppers on my builds. Always use a hair dryer. Works EVERYTIME!!!!
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This weekend swapped a larue barrel fron a VLTOR to a Noveske upper.
I found cursing, long emphatic strings of vile words to be most effective.
That and just pound the living crap out of it after heating it.
Per Ardua ad Astra.
STS - gone but not forgotten.
Man, that sounds like my weekend. I decided to move a BCM sling mount. I actually installed it and used blue Locktite on it. Holy cow! First I did something stupid. It was late and I wasn't paying attention and used the wrong size wrench... "wow, this thing is really tig.... crack!' broke the wrench off. Luckily it fell out.
So I get a ball end driver which again it was late and I didn't realize what I was doing.... It was also a cheap wrench from HF. Snapped that sucker off and it stuck.
So now I get the actual BCM wrench and try the other screw... "Holy cow, this one is really ti.... crack!" Broke that sucker off too. Again it fell right out.
Finally I figured if I took the short bit from a torque wrench set ( the hard gray ones ) and grabbed it with a large pair of fencing pliers it would turn the screw out. Tried heating with soldering iron to no avail prior.
So now I'm down to the stuck ball head inside the other screw. Bent the point of a punch trying to unwedge it a bit.
It's drill time!!!
I -thought- maybe I'll get lucky and the broken piece will drill or vibrate loose. Not sure why I thought I would get lucky that way.
Final result.... I have a 1/2 of a BCM sling mount as a reminder. I'm glad it was a sub $20 item. I never could get the screw all the way out. Reason finally hit me as I basically screwed up everything I touched so I got concerned about something else going wrong and drilling the rail. Luckily a tap with a wood block freed it up enough to remove.
I'm thinking those things don't need licktite. Although if you are sure you don't want it to move it sure stays put.
Hmmm. I just put together a 300 Blackout and now you have me worried. I was using a BCM upper receiver and a Noveske 14.5" barrel. I had always heard that BCM upper receivers were tight but when I installed the Noveske barrel it slid in no problem. It wasn't loose as in rattling around but it wasn't tight by any means.
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