Okay,....lots of comments on this.
1)Ya done good,...that looks great.
2)The locking pin is supposed to be long so you don't slide the stock completely off the buffer tube when extending it. I usually have to compress the lock, wedge a screwdriver blade between the lever and the cross pin in the lock and resqueeze to get enough clearance to install/remove a stock from the buffer tube.
3)I'm more than a little disappointed that neither of my rifles came with a wench, just a tool for removing the barrel nut and stock. Shame,.....I could have used a good wench or two.
4)It's good to see that the Turks destandardized the back of the rifle as well as the front. My Feathers came with decent adjustable stocks but fitting rails in place of dog-face ugly handguards is gonna be a project. Front sight post and handguard remove as you would expect and then there's a polymer barrel nut to remove, but that's where AR similarity ends. Polymer barrel nut has coarse threads so a regular AR nut no workie. Rail won't come anywhere near to slipping over the beefy poly nut. Contacted Rock Island for a couple of part#48 TM barrel nuts but got the response, "parts not available 'yet', why you want two barrel nuts?" Told them what I was doing,......but that was Friday and no expected response from them yet.
I figure I have three options,...either get the nuts from RIA somehow, turn down the diameter of the poly nuts I have and hope they're still strong enough to not shed their threads and that the aluminum rails will clamp tightly enough to stay in place, or swipe your nut when you're not looking,.....but that would still leave me one short.
But hey, fwiw, the Feather safety works right,......up is safe and down is fire. I figure that's a win.
I'm also VERY happy that my compulsive purchasing nature got the better of me and I pounced on a second one Sunday before mgmt came in on Monday and realized they were giving these things away at $139. I haven't bought a rifle this good for this cheap in over 40yrs and that was with 1980's dollars.
1)Ya done good,...that looks great.
2)The locking pin is supposed to be long so you don't slide the stock completely off the buffer tube when extending it. I usually have to compress the lock, wedge a screwdriver blade between the lever and the cross pin in the lock and resqueeze to get enough clearance to install/remove a stock from the buffer tube.
3)I'm more than a little disappointed that neither of my rifles came with a wench, just a tool for removing the barrel nut and stock. Shame,.....I could have used a good wench or two.
4)It's good to see that the Turks destandardized the back of the rifle as well as the front. My Feathers came with decent adjustable stocks but fitting rails in place of dog-face ugly handguards is gonna be a project. Front sight post and handguard remove as you would expect and then there's a polymer barrel nut to remove, but that's where AR similarity ends. Polymer barrel nut has coarse threads so a regular AR nut no workie. Rail won't come anywhere near to slipping over the beefy poly nut. Contacted Rock Island for a couple of part#48 TM barrel nuts but got the response, "parts not available 'yet', why you want two barrel nuts?" Told them what I was doing,......but that was Friday and no expected response from them yet.
I figure I have three options,...either get the nuts from RIA somehow, turn down the diameter of the poly nuts I have and hope they're still strong enough to not shed their threads and that the aluminum rails will clamp tightly enough to stay in place, or swipe your nut when you're not looking,.....but that would still leave me one short.
But hey, fwiw, the Feather safety works right,......up is safe and down is fire. I figure that's a win.
I'm also VERY happy that my compulsive purchasing nature got the better of me and I pounced on a second one Sunday before mgmt came in on Monday and realized they were giving these things away at $139. I haven't bought a rifle this good for this cheap in over 40yrs and that was with 1980's dollars.
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