Upper to Lower play

[dan14363]

One solution that will help "too much play" between the upper and lower is the over sized pivot and take down pins from ArmaLite
http://www.armalite.com/ItemForm.aspx?item=ENM001&Category=93c41860-4ca2-43ee-8ca9-dc09b1a5bf2c
http://www.armalite.com/ItemForm.aspx?item=ENM001&Category=93c41860-4ca2-43ee-8ca9-dc09b1a5bf2c

[kartoffel]

A cigarette butt works, too. Or you can just not worry about it.

[SomeOtherGuy]

I like being able to push the pins in and out with just finger pressure.

An accuwedge is another good $3 solution if you must, but I haven't found a need for one.

[Scorpion]

The play doesn't effect function so I don't mess with it.

[orionz06]

A cigarette butt works, too. Or you can just not worry about it.

What happens when the cigarette butt gets in the way of the hammer?

[kartoffel]

What happens when the cigarette butt gets in the way of the hammer?

I guess it's one more reason to quit.

[.45fmjoe]

I guess it's one more reason to quit.

Duh dum chhh! :sarcastic:

The best solution I have found is to not even worry about it.

[120mm]

I think this should get an award for best first post, EVAH!

[og556]

It is nice to be able to disassemble your rifle without tools. These pins seem unnecessary to me but to someone who wants tight upper/lower fit they are better than a plastic wedge.

[Meplat]

One solution that will help "too much play" between the upper and lower is the over sized pivot and take down pins from ArmaLite
http://www.armalite.com/ItemForm.aspx?item=ENM001&Category=93c41860-4ca2-43ee-8ca9-dc09b1a5bf2c
http://www.armalite.com/ItemForm.aspx?item=ENM001&Category=93c41860-4ca2-43ee-8ca9-dc09b1a5bf2c

Your very first post on this site and you're suggesting gear made by Armalite, directly from Armalite? With a link?
Sounds to me like shady advertising on Armalite's end.

[dan14363]

This is my first post because I am generally a "lurker". I have found that I learn more by reading or listening to others than posting or talking. I am not advertising for ArmaLite. I simply posted an option to help others who may be as dogmatic about excessive receiver play as I am. This is just an option without placing a foreign object inside the receiver. I recently completed a build that the upper and lower receivers had more wobble than what I like. These pins tightened it up.

[SomeOtherGuy]

Your very first post on this site and you're suggesting gear made by Armalite, directly from Armalite? With a link?
Sounds to me like shady advertising on Armalite's end.

FWIW, I would vote Armalite as among the least likely to do shady advertising across the entire industry. They do about the least self-promotion of anyone.

I do wonder if using these pins will, over time, enlarge the receiver holes so you could not use standard pins if you wanted to.

[120mm]

This is my first post because I am generally a "lurker". I have found that I learn more by reading or listening to others than posting or talking. I am not advertising for ArmaLite. I simply posted an option to help others who may be as dogmatic about excessive receiver play as I am. This is just an option without placing a foreign object inside the receiver. I recently completed a build that the upper and lower receivers had more wobble than what I like. These pins tightened it up.

Need to work on the "learn more" bit, I think.

Additional widgets to reduce upper to lower play are a benchrester tweak, not something that belongs on a combat carbine, I think. For one thing, anything that makes it more difficult to split the upper and lower halves is bad ju-ju.

[Crow Hunter]

Need to work on the "learn more" bit, I think.

Additional widgets to reduce upper to lower play are a benchrester tweak, not something that belongs on a combat carbine, I think. For one thing, anything that makes it more difficult to split the upper and lower halves is bad ju-ju.

My Colt 6724 came from the factory with that stupid "Accuwedge". I had to use a punch to tap the pins out of the lower, I thought I was going to have to send it back because the lower was miss machined like a Bushamster I looked at one time. I really don't see the point in it and it does make it VERY annoying to get the upper off.

[SMETNA]

I simply posted an option to help others who may be as dogmatic about excessive receiver play as I am.

I AM! I AM! Haha

Thank you for the info. I may elect to do nothing about the play, but if I do somewhere down the road I've got those links bookmarked.

[6933]

Please read a little more before posting. Play b/w the upper and lower is of no consequence. The Accuwedge, and any other item or fix for play, is money pissed down the drain.

[Iraqgunz]

This is pre-New Year's retard stuff that has been discussed before. Good night.