kwelz
01-28-09, 16:20
A while back I talked about a rifle I had with a bad FSB. I had cut the FSB down and was using optics instead. Well the other day I got my hands on a Gas Block/Flip up Front site and wanted to use this rifle as a KISS rifle. When I went to remove the FSB I found that there was pretty much no way to do it.
I eventually had to get a pair of Vice Grips and clamped them onto the gas block. When I first did this I tried it along the top and when I went to start wiggling the Gas block left and right I didn't notice that the edge of the vice grips were digging into the barrel slightly.
There isn't any damage to the barrel however it did managed to scrape a nice area of finish off. Is there is simple way to fix this? I would prefer not to refinish the whole thing but I hate having bare metal exposed.
I eventually had to get a pair of Vice Grips and clamped them onto the gas block. When I first did this I tried it along the top and when I went to start wiggling the Gas block left and right I didn't notice that the edge of the vice grips were digging into the barrel slightly.
There isn't any damage to the barrel however it did managed to scrape a nice area of finish off. Is there is simple way to fix this? I would prefer not to refinish the whole thing but I hate having bare metal exposed.