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MJinPA
02-19-20, 09:00
Are the steel and tungsten weights the same size as regular buffer weights? I have an A5H3 and wondering if I could swap with carbine steel weights to make it a 2 or 1


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MistWolf
02-19-20, 09:26
Yes. Yes, you can.
MJinPA
02-19-20, 09:28
Yes. Yes, you can.

Awesome! Thanks.


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markm
02-19-20, 09:40
I dremel off the H3 or H4 when I do this so there's no future confusion. This also lets me know the buffer has been modified.
26 Inf
02-19-20, 12:08
I dremel off the H3 or H4 when I do this so there's no future confusion. This also lets me know the buffer has been modified.

I use a stamp to mark them. HF works for me in this case - https://www.harborfreight.com/18-in-Steel-LetterNumber-Stamping-Set-36-Pc-63676.html

I toyed with using different colored buffer ends but decided to stamp: https://www.kakindustry.com/ar-15-parts/lower-parts/buffer-tubes-and-parts/individual-buffer-tube-parts/individual-buffer-parts/buffer-bumper-red
markm
02-19-20, 12:29
I use a stamp to mark them. HF works for me in this case - https://www.harborfreight.com/18-in-Steel-LetterNumber-Stamping-Set-36-Pc-63676.html

I toyed with using different colored buffer ends but decided to stamp: https://www.kakindustry.com/ar-15-parts/lower-parts/buffer-tubes-and-parts/individual-buffer-tube-parts/individual-buffer-parts/buffer-bumper-red

Classy!

Yeah... buffer ends would work, but mean having to pull the buffer to confirm. I like the stamp idea, but I only mod one to H2.
26 Inf
02-19-20, 16:35
Classy!

Yeah... buffer ends would work, but mean having to pull the buffer to confirm. I like the stamp idea, but I only mod one to H2.

That is why I went with the stamp instead of the buffer ends, I haven't modified that many. Didn't think of having to pull the buffer to confirm while I was considering the idea of different colored ends.

I have a vibrating engraver but anything I've tried to engrave ends up looking like a forty year-old jail tattoo.
markm
02-19-20, 16:38
I have a vibrating engraver but anything I've tried to engrave ends up looking like a forty year-old jail tattoo.

Someone we shoot with brought out an SOT converted AR full auto. They used that method for engraving the lower. It was funny.
26 Inf
02-19-20, 17:20
Yeah, I've bought some imported surplus pistols that were engraved that way, although a lot better than I could have done.
DaBigBR
02-23-20, 07:45
A set of metal stamps is useful, but it sure can be over done...