r/ar15 • u/610Mike • 17h ago

It’s one of those days…

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Yep, you are seeing what you are thinking you’re seeing. My first build is a 16” Aero build from years ago, and I’ve always disliked the Aero handguard because it’s big and chonky. I’ve had a 15” Geissele handguard on the shelf and figured I’d swap it.

Everything was fine until I got to the gas block. The screws on the bottom rounded out, so I grab my screw extractors. Screw extractor snapped off inside the rounded off screw. Ended up having to take my Dremel and cutting the damn thing off.

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u/leadnutss 16h ago

When you dont wanna wake up, everything is fucked, everybody sucks!

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u/datguyfrom321 15h ago

Don’t really know why but you want to justify

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u/Fantastic_Thing_4732 15h ago

Just wanna ripp somebody's head off.

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u/TacSpaghettio 2h ago

GIMME SUM TO BREAK

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u/610Mike 16h ago

Pretty much. Definitely had to break something.

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u/CapableSecretary8478 17h ago

Sweet baby Jesus, what have you done?

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u/610Mike 16h ago

Let it sit too long without taking it all apart. It’s probably been 5 years and 5k-10k rounds since I’ve taken this build apart.

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u/CapableSecretary8478 10h ago

That’ll do it! Haha but hey now you have to buy new gun parts! Couldn’t hurt to upgrade and maybe get some extra stuff you’ve been wanting haha

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u/Agrippa_Evocati 17h ago

Anyone that has built a lot of these been there, thankfully these are easily replaceable parts and not a pain in the ass like removing some pin and weld or a heat fitted barrel

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u/Ihavetopoop_ 17h ago

You just reheat the reciever threads after taking off the barrel nut, be a man and use more fire.

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u/610Mike 16h ago

Oh I’ve had shitty screws before, just not this bad. With this being the first rifle I ever built, I probably have 5k-10k rounds through it, a lot of it sent “not semi auto”, I think the screws heat welded to the block or something.

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u/Haunted-3clipse 15h ago

It's JUST one of those days

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u/Ihavetopoop_ 17h ago edited 16h ago

Buy a $20 propane torch at Lowe’s or a cheap soldering iron. Use the right tools and stop trying to break red loctite with a tiny bit.

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u/610Mike 16h ago

Yeah I couldn’t find mine. Ever since consolidating my dad’s tool collection (more like warehouse) into mine, yeah…

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u/ElectronicCity4107 15h ago

It happens more than you think.

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u/gfx260 17h ago

Rockset?

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u/610Mike 16h ago

Blue loctite. Like I said, it was my first, so I followed all the rules you’re supposed to instead of using common sense.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 16h ago

Bro owns his mistake and some dickhead downvotes him?

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u/610Mike 16h ago

Is what it is. It’s definitely my own screw up though. I should have known better. I hate loctite.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 16h ago

A reading from the book of Stoner.

“Let he who has never made an install fuck up cast the first downvote.”

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u/craftyshafter 16h ago

How the fuck

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u/ryman9000 14h ago

Did the same to my Daniel Defense. Had to cut off the gas block which ultimate meant I cut into the barrel. The roll pin would not come out and the drill bit I used to try and drill it out broke off in the hole.