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    Airsofters are creating gas blocks evidently....

    All joking aside, how many times do we need to see stories where people have bought cheap crap, and in a case like this saved $15 only to have total aggravation.
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    I bought a complete upper. You don't always know what parts the manufacturer uses. If I had built it myself I would take responsibility for buying cheap parts and live with it. I guess I simply bought a cheap upper that was built with cheap parts. Live and learn. I have contacted them regarding a warranty.

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    I've seen similar on some purposely altered extreme light profile gas blocks. Almost the entire top half of the block had to be opened up like a big sealed pocket that held pressure somewhat. For a worse case scenario type of test. It would take a pretty bad defect for anything else.

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    That's a pretty impressive failure. I wouldn't have believed it was even possible, but apparently it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by recce556 View Post
    I wonder if that's a cast gas block? I imagine a poorly cast gas block could fail in such a manner...
    I wanted to say that earlier, looks like when cast iron cracks to me. I'm on the "cheap CHI-COM gas block" boat on this one.

    (by cast iron I mean like the cheap metal crap you buy at wal-mart, then it cracks as you try to assemble it.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by discreet View Post
    Did everyone not realize that IG replied to this thread and did NOT shut it down or say this needs to be handled otherwise. Good grief people.
    You'll also note IG didn't make any protest when it was brought up we should conduct ourselves in accordance with the rules. In any case, we should be adult enough to conduct business without needing mods to babysit
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    This company doesn't appear to manufacture anything. They assemble stuff and sell it.

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    Extremely lucky. The barrel is a 7" CM barrel of unknown manufacture at a price of 89.99. BCG has no specs for it at a price of $75.00.

    In the menu on the left side amid the various gun parts is Jewelry...
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    Quote Originally Posted by RWH24 View Post
    Extremely lucky. The barrel is a 7" CM barrel of unknown manufacture at a price of 89.99. BCG has no specs for it at a price of $75.00.

    In the menu on the left side amid the various gun parts is Jewelry...
    LOL.

    This is worse than those 99$ specials we see floating around for 7.5inchers. IMO I am still pondering on picking a shit 99$ barrel up just to run light loaded .223. My guess is the gas port will be so open it wouldn't be an issue LOL.
    From TOS ... "buy the shit out of that thing, all the mil spec is just nonsense."

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    Quote Originally Posted by RWH24 View Post
    In the menu on the left side amid the various gun parts is Jewelry...
    Hehehe...to be fair, it is gun related jewelry...

    That aside, I don't know why people expect good results from cheap AR products. The AR market is pretty mature and when you see anything that is being sold particularly cheap from an "unknown" manufacturer, alarms should be going off...at the very least, expect some sort of failure happening sooner or later as a given. Here's a helpful trilemma chart...
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    Last edited by recce556; 03-24-14 at 02:39.

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