Installing M16 3 prong flash hider

[wild_wild_wes]

How do you tighten an original M16 3 prong flash hider? It doesn't have flats for a wrench.

[Quiet-Matt]

There is a wrench for it that goes over the prongs.

[Quiet-Matt]

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0053/5332/products/DSC02991_large.jpg?53

[Iraqgunz]

You can also use a piece of thick flat steel that will fit between the flats.

[wild_wild_wes]

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0053/5332/products/DSC02991_large.jpg?53

Where can I get that tool?

[Don Robison]

Where can I get that tool?


Here you go.
http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/rifle-tools/wrenches/ar-15-m16-combination-wrench-prod468.aspx

[Heavy Metal]

Here you go.
http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/rifle-tools/wrenches/ar-15-m16-combination-wrench-prod468.aspx

Nope.

The tool Brownell's lists no longer contains the end which works on the three-pronged flash suppressors.

I recently bought one of these tools for just this reason and I found it here:

http://www.innovativeindustriesllc.com/products/ar-15-combo-wrench

[Don Robison]

Nope.

The tool Brownell's lists no longer contains the end which works on the three-pronged flash suppressors.

I recently bought one of these tools for just this reason and I found it here:

http://www.innovativeindustriesllc.com/products/ar-15-combo-wrench

Yep, your correct. I didn't even look at the picture.

[aguila327]

You can also use a piece of thick flat steel that will fit between the flats.

Simplicity at its finest.

Why does there have to be a soecific tool for everything when whst you need is probably laying in a scrap bin in your shop or garage.

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[Quiet-Matt]

Ive used a small screwdriver with heat shrink tubing on it to install a prong style FH before and it worked like a charm.

[Ned Christiansen]

Wes, would a three-jawed chuck jive with the slots? I mean, either on a lathe or even just a drill chuck?

Where can I get one o' them 3-prongers, anyway? I have a few take-off RRA comps if anyone would care to trade (full disclosure: I have them because I despise them and we do not permit them in class anymore.)

[wild_wild_wes]

Wes, would a three-jawed chuck jive with the slots? I mean, either on a lathe or even just a drill chuck?

Where can I get one o' them 3-prongers, anyway? I have a few take-off RRA comps if anyone would care to trade (full disclosure: I have them because I despise them and we do not permit them in class anymore.)

I thought about the 3-jawed chuck too, but don't have one on hand.

I got the 3 prong FH from Fulton Armory.

[Heavy Metal]

Wes, would a three-jawed chuck jive with the slots? I mean, either on a lathe or even just a drill chuck?

Where can I get one o' them 3-prongers, anyway? I have a few take-off RRA comps if anyone would care to trade (full disclosure: I have them because I despise them and we do not permit them in class anymore.)

http://www.ozarksurplus.com/M16-3-Prong-Flash-Hider-USGI-M16THRPRNGFLHHDR.htm


And as I posted earlier, for the wrench itself:

http://www.innovativeindustriesllc.com/products/ar-15-combo-wrench

[wild_wild_wes]

http://www.ozarksurplus.com/M16-3-Prong-Flash-Hider-USGI-M16THRPRNGFLHHDR.htm



Ohh lookee that, that is the very first version, with thin tynes:
http://www.ozarksurplus.com/images/1362963612309208665050.jpeg

The one I got from Fulton is the later type with beefed-up tynes:
http://www.fulton-armory.com/images/products/display/AU075.jpg

[Heavy Metal]

I don't think so Wes, I think they are the same and the perspective in the pic is throwing you. I can check tommorow and see. I have a DPMS one and two of the Ozark Take-Offs.

[Ned Christiansen]

http://www.hardwarestore.com/american-standard-diverter-handle-600960.aspx#1

If you could be the right guy in the right place at the right time, some hardware store somewhere probably has a bin full of something like this that will fit. This one's too big but I wonder if you might find what you need strolling the aisle of Home Depot?