NIB Colt 6933 - Safety Won't Move To Fire...

[tangolima]

It is just an ordinary GI safety selector with an additional lever screwed on the other end of the drum. I suppose it is for soldier firing on either shoulder.

-TL

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[SteyrAUG]

It is just an ordinary GI safety selector with an additional lever screwed on the other end of the drum. I suppose it is for soldier firing on either shoulder.

-TL

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Except if that screw isn't seated and given the fact that it's loctited, it can F up the whole works, which is what "we" are talking about.

[davidjinks]

That’s really weird to see the red loctite on that screw. I’ve had 2 new lowers with ambi-safety and neither one of them were loctited with anything. Unless you consider oil loctite, there was enough to run a small engine in those lowers.

Me personally, they’re a love/hate thing with me. I use them on most of my rifles now. I install them with blue loctite and 25 in/lbs of torque.

Except if that screw isn't seated and given the fact that it's loctited, it can F up the whole works, which is what "we" are talking about.

[Diamondback]

At the risk of being one of THOSE people, as a southpaw... this is why if I HAD to buy an assembled AR (rifle, pistol or just lower) I'd rather have it come with just the standard safety and retrofit my own ambi.

[titsonritz]

I use to use BADASS safeties, but was always paranoid about the screw and have since moved to FCD ASF-50Q.

Red loctite is insane, blue would have been appropriate

[Uncas47]

The small lever and screw has nothing to do with the normal operation of the safety, without it installed it operates like a non ambi and is held in position by the detent and spring just like any other safety. Any play back and forth came from some other problem. I can take any ambi safety I've got and stick it in any in spec lower without the small lever and screw and it will work perfectly. That safety was junk, shit happens.

[markm]

You're better off without that ambi POS anyway. It is simply more that can go wrong as you just discovered.

Word up! I fukking hate those useless things!

[1168]

The small lever and screw has nothing to do with the normal operation of the safety, without it installed it operates like a non ambi and is held in position by the detent and spring just like any other safety. Any play back and forth came from some other problem. I can take any ambi safety I've got and stick it in any in spec lower without the small lever and screw and it will work perfectly. That safety was junk, shit happens.

I’ve done the same, and yes, they work fine with the screw loose or missing, and are simply a slightly uglier non-ambi selector at that point. At least with the Colt (mil and commercial) and Troy ones.

[1168]

Word up! I fukking hate those useless things!

Please keep in mind that other users don’t find them useless. Such as every nearly military in the northwest quadrant of this planet, and many major LE agencies. And any trainer/instructor/coach that teaches to place the selector on Safe with the trigger finger (doctrinal practice in some organizations that forces the user to remove trigger finger from trigger guard).

What you meant to say is that it’s useless to you and the way that you utilize your rifle, not that the device is useless.

[Uncas47]

Place a standard safety on the table next to an ambi one and hide the small lever and screw in a safe place where they can't frighten you and tell me the difference. There is no special voodoo bullshit going on in your gun with an ambi. If you don't understand the basic function of an ar15 safety by now get help.