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Thread: Aluminum end-plate...weakness...or moot point?

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    To clarify my point that the receiver plate does nothing other than allow you to retain a spring and do a staking job, you could thread the take down pin spring hole and put a screw in it and put no end plate on the rifle and either stake the receiver itself into the castle nut or even put a split ring lock washer in front of the castle nut for security and even loctite the RE extension into the receiver if you wanted. But because the ideal way is to just stake the castle nut and use an end plate to retain the spring, steel is stronger for the staking, but as KAC has shown with the newer SR15 RE nut without staking it (bc it isn't a "castle" nut) aluminum could stake it securely enough with proper torque value on the castle but itself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by orionz06 View Post
    From what I've seen they all have a steel socket still.
    OK cool..good to know. Appears to be all aluminum from the pics on their website?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wahoo95 View Post
    OK cool..good to know. Appears to be all aluminum from the pics on their website?
    From what I can tell, it's all aluminum, as well. I have one on my rifle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WS6 View Post
    From what I can tell, it's all aluminum, as well. I have one on my rifle.
    Shit! It'd guess that it would cost a lot to have a steel insert in an alluminum plate from a production standpoint.

    p.s. Q.D. is nonsense and doesn't belong on firearms.
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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    Shit! It'd guess that it would cost a lot to have a steel insert in an alluminum plate from a production standpoint.

    p.s. Q.D. is nonsense and doesn't belong on firearms.
    I would prefer a steel plate with burnsed, but...that's what it came with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    Shit! It'd guess that it would cost a lot to have a steel insert in an alluminum plate from a production standpoint.

    p.s. Q.D. is nonsense and doesn't belong on firearms.
    Depends how it's made, ultimately I suspect the steel would be cheaper.


    Qd works fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by orionz06 View Post
    Depends how it's made, ultimately I suspect the steel would be cheaper.
    I forget what the machine is called that punches those things, but it just bangs away. I supposed adding the socket is additional cost either way.


    Qd works fine.
    Until it fails.
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    Adding the socket would be about the same either way but I suspect the steel stamping would be cheaper and more attainable.



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