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    I'm working on removing a pinned FH from a standard 14.5" M4 barrel that I bought. Should this barrel have left or right handed threads? I have cut it down to where the pin is and need to try and loosen it to remove the pin. My problem is that I'm working out of town in an apartment and don't have a vice to hold everything in place at them moment. Guess I'm going to have to see if a local gunsmith can help me the rest of the way in removing it.

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    Are you a Jedi Master with a Dremel??

    Look how close I came to Pappabear's Noveske threads.
    The tines were cut off to get them out of the way.

    "You people have too much time on your hands." - scottryan

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    Is the pin itself just tapped into place and then welded over? The shop that I bought the barrel from said that I should be able to grind down to a point and then use a magnet of some sort to extract it. From the depth I've gone so far, it looks like a fairly tight fit and the magnet trick isn't going to work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hanson77 View Post
    Is the pin itself just tapped into place and then welded over? The shop that I bought the barrel from said that I should be able to grind down to a point and then use a magnet of some sort to extract it. From the depth I've gone so far, it looks like a fairly tight fit and the magnet trick isn't going to work.
    The problem with that hope is that once you start, you're kinda commited to the project.

    I tried that crap on a PWS perm and it didn't work. Wasted a bunch of time too. Best to just cut the unit on both sides and break it in two with a big screw driver.
    Last edited by markm; 09-20-11 at 12:25.
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    Look at some of the rails that will attach to the standard barrel nut, then you don't need to cut of the flash hider.

    Consider selling the 14.5" to buy a 16". If you feel the need to change the configuration now, you may again. The 16" will save you time and money if you want to change something later.

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    I've already got a weapon with a 16" barrel configuration as well as a 20" setup. This was just a venture to get as short and light of a weapon as I could on a fairly small budget and without going SBR. If grinding it down and splitting it is my only route at this point, then that's what its going to take. I was never concerned with keeping the FH anyway. I have already found what I want to go back with as I knew it would get butchered in the removal process.

    Thanks for the advice and the pics of your dremel handywork.

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    Just know where your threads are. Going slow and not wrecking a barrel is worth the effort. I took a long time on my first one.

    PWS was a piece of cake because I could see the barrel threads. That stupid vortex was nerve racking because the muzzle end covers the barrel diameter and threads.
    Last edited by markm; 09-20-11 at 13:10.
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    Yeah, the one that I have is similar to a Vortex. This will definitely be a SLOOOW process. But I have nothing but time in the evenings to slowly work on it. I don't have the rest of the components to finish the gun rightnow anyway. Just bought a complete lower and the barrel yesterday as a starting point. I plan to duracoat the upper, lower and barrel and leave everything else black. I'm stuck in a boring town for the next 6-8 months so I figured I might as well build another AR...hahaha!!!

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    I've always sawed off enough of the muzzle device to get a center into the muzzle then turned the outside of the device on a lathe until the pin was exposed. Obviously, not the approach to use if you want to save the device.

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    I am Thinking of doing this Myself soon, Since Alabama Finally passed the law letting us common folk have SBR's Now.
    I got the name and number of a NFA trust lawyer .So I will contact him and see what the damage will be on filing a Trust for it and then I will pony up the 2 dead presidents and start the process


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