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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamondback View Post
    Mack, I'm working on a C8 clone, and the C8's use some rather distinct endplates that are Unobtanium down here unless your name is Larry Vickers (and even then it's very difficult).
    Can you buy them in Canada? Seems like that if you could it would be easy to get them stateside.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AKDoug View Post
    Can you buy them in Canada? Seems like that if you could it would be easy to get them stateside.
    Every Canadian retailer I've checked says genuine Colt Canada parts are "NO EXPORT" (the few that have any in stock; most are "Unavailable" and have to buy complete rifles to scrap for parts) and a couple have said "No export of ANY AR15-specific component." And I'm not about to ask my girlfriend to go shopping up there, snag one and risk an ITAR violation mailing it to me even though this is for "her" gun in a "His/Hers" set--it's a bullshit law, but it's one with serious consequences.

    EDIT: And up there parts for "Restricted" firearms like AR's are treated the same as the firearm itself for needing a license to purchase, it sounds like.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AKDoug View Post
    Can you buy them in Canada? Seems like that if you could it would be easy to get them stateside.
    Assuming the guy sending it south understands the chance he is taking. I know it's a stupid law but it is still the law.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GH41 View Post
    I admit overlooking the lug. Couldn't a hole be blown for the lug, the lug cut separately and pressed in? I know what he is trying to do but don't know how bad he wants to do it.
    If memory serves the Vltor SASE has a lug that screws on so the plate is reversible rather than having to tool separate Left and Right Hand parts. So that'd be a possibility...
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    Take a road trip north and pick one up yourself.
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    Weld and file on a standard endplate is your only real option that I see.

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    Part of why I ask is I have a contact up there that's cloned CF-proprietary charging handle latches, and my thought was that with even Canadians being unable to get the genuine article if I could put them in touch with a US manufacturer that might be game for partnering with them we could solve their problem and mine at the same time.

    If I can't do that, the Odin Works plate is my backup. Thanks to everyone who pitched in inside perspective, particularly Duffy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by titsonritz View Post
    Take a road trip north and pick one up yourself.
    Doesn't work if I can't BUY the plate without a Canadian RPAL license...
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    For a few one-offs, I'd imagine that as long as you have drawings it would not be too hard to have a shop water-jet or laser cut one out of steel plate. Then cut out a lug piece and spot weld it to the main body through a small hole, tumble to deburr, and finish.

    Cosmetically it'd vary from the die-stamped lug a bit, but the part should function.

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    Some great ideas here.....darn geniuses
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