Staked Carrier Question...

[M193 BALL]

...sorry guys, I was reading a thread and it mentioned staked carriers - mine certainly seems staked, do you think so?



Sorry for the bad pic, the sides are nicely dimpled in evenly on both sides.

Oh, and why is it important? - I'm a newbie to such details.

Looks like most Ive seen lately. Bushmaster,RRA,etc

You should see my CMT ? could have been done alot Better !!
but it does run fine

I like my LMT over my CMT

[Stickman]

Stake it like you stole it, or something like that.


As others have already stated, you want direct contact, and there shouldn't be any question that there is material pressing against the carrier key screws.

Below is an example of one of my Colt M16 carriers.

[Wayne Dobbs]

That one is very obviously good to go.

Which begs the question: Why in the world don't the rest of them do a decent job of this? As a casual observer can tell, it's not rocket science to do a staking job well....

[yrac]

To counter this I like to stake the screws too. Once all is down tight and the key is staked, I stake each screw twice, just on the clockwise side of the key stake. this way there is outwardly displaced screw metal that would stop on the inwardly displaced key metal, should the screw even think about turning.

Ned - thanks very much for that tip.

[ST911]

Factory stake jobs:

Colt:


Bushmaster:


Armalite:

[edhresko]

FWIW, this is from a CMT MP BCG set that my Noveske Afghan came with...John he says he uses CMT BCG's, and I have 2 CMT BCGs that i've bought separately, and they're nowhere as well staked as this, so I believe John did the stakeing himself.

[Robb Jensen]

Here's one of my RRA carriers that I restaked with the Ned Christiansen MOACKS staking tool.

[Harv]

And heres my LMT BCG after getting staked by Neds tool.....

[Zip06]

Who is Ned? Where can I find out more about his staking tool? Where could I order one?

[RyanB]

Ned Christiansen is the author of the number six post in this thread, a world class gunsmith and the owner of Michiguns, which sells the MOACKS tool that you want. The Mother Of All Carrier Key Stakers, or some such thing.