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Thread: When building your first AR - most common errors?

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    Quote Originally Posted by warner41 View Post
    Proper technique versus improper. How about this, find a gunsmith or armorer that uses a c clamp to install a trigger guard roll pin. Manufacturers, armorers and gun smiths alike all use a punch to install pins, what more needs to be said?
    well, you could start by telling us WHY. so far, you just keep appealing to a phantom authority

    It's like the guy that defends his DPMS claiming it's as good as a Colt,
    no, it's not, because there are thousands of threads here detailing the differences between DPMS and colt. The differences are well documented. What is not well documented, is why punches are better than a c clamp.

    so feel free to educate us. it's not like I haven't asked 3 times already...

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    Let's stay on topic- the point of this thread is to learn what to look out for when building your first AR, not argue pin installation techniques

    There is a right way, some alternative ways, and wrong ways. We are all free to choose whichever method we like.

    Fair?

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    Fair. To each their own.

    Quote Originally Posted by tkglazie View Post
    Let's stay on topic- the point of this thread is to learn what to look out for when building your first AR, not argue pin installation techniques

    There is a right way, some alternative ways, and wrong ways. We are all free to choose whichever method we like.

    Fair?

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    The most common mistakes are usually, and some of these were mentioned in this thread.
    1. Using less than quality parts just to save a few bucks. You end up buying things twice.
    2. Not having the proper tools and instructions.
    3. Being in a hurry because the "Completion Fever" hit with a vengeance!
    4. Running into a small problem and NOT coming here for advice to help correct it before it invariably becomes a, and I hate this phrase,"Metric Shit Ton" of a problem. Now it's starting to cost you some money and a definite blow to the ego! Good luck on your build.

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    Buy once cry once, get quality first and it will be cheaper. Read all you can on here first, some of us learned the hard way and have to rebuild guns again to make them last! Never stop learning

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigredneck61088 View Post
    Buy once cry once, get quality first and it will be cheaper. Read all you can on here first, some of us learned the hard way and have to rebuild guns again to make them last! Never stop learning

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    thanks bigred and 3ae. I am in no hurry for sure. I did my best to buy the best parts I could find (within reason). This isnt a match gun but the only parts in the whole build that are not by dd/noveske/vltor/alg/kns and troy are the moe grip and trigger guard, some gaudy chrome dpms controls and a pack of generic springs. I will upgrade those lower parts later on. You take what you can get right now I consider myself very lucky to have landed such good parts, and at normal prices. MANY hours of internet scouring and several returns/exchanges later, of course.

    As for the learning part, well thats half the fun! The more you learn about how your guns work the better they seems to operate. Funny how that works!
    Last edited by tkglazie; 01-10-13 at 20:42.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tkglazie View Post
    thanks bigred and 3ae. I am in no hurry for sure. I did my best to buy the best parts I could find (within reason). This isnt a match gun but the only parts in the whole build that are not by dd/noveske/vltor/alg/kns and troy are the moe grip and trigger guard, some gaudy chrome dpms controls and a pack of generic springs. I will upgrade those lower parts later on. You take what you can get right now I consider myself very lucky to have landed such good parts, and at normal prices. MANY hours of internet scouring and several returns/exchanges later, of course.

    As for the learning part, well thats half the fun! The more you learn about how your guns work the better they seems to operate. Funny how that works!
    Head over here and replace the gaudy DPMS parts with colt parts

    http://www.specializedarmament.com/c...Parts-4-0.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toyoland66 View Post
    Head over here and replace the gaudy DPMS parts with colt parts

    http://www.specializedarmament.com/c...Parts-4-0.html
    Excellent. Done. I will send the dpms/midway order back without even opening the box! Thats not a bad LPK. ALG trigger, KNS pins, Colt controls. And no chrome. Sure, I way overpaid but I had already overpaid for the cheesy DPMS parts anyway. I would rather overpay and have something nice.

    Thanks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tkglazie View Post
    Excellent. Done. I will send the dpms/midway order back without even opening the box! Thats not a bad LPK. ALG trigger, KNS pins, Colt controls. And no chrome. Sure, I way overpaid but I had already overpaid for the cheesy DPMS parts anyway. I would rather overpay and have something nice.

    Thanks!
    They're so backed up with people who want their orders filled, save them the time and don't bother them with a return for a product you decided you no longer want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Travis B View Post
    They're so backed up with people who want their orders filled, save them the time and don't bother them with a return for a product you decided you no longer want.
    No way- I look at the opposite way. As hard as I looked for those parts to finish my lower, it would be silly for me to sit on a set of controls that someone else might need. Part hoarding is making it impossible for us to complete builds!

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