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Anyone Loctite their AR barrels?
yoshmyster
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I was reading Guns & Ammo AR-15 (the bright green cover one) where they try to squeeze out accuracy out of AR15 by doing few "tricks". Like lapping the receiver and then loctiting the barrel to it.
Basically you slop Loctite on the outer barrel extension (not the threads on the receiver) like lube and slide it in to the receiver. I can see the squaring the receiver but I'm wondering if Loctite was really necessary? Just wondering if anyone's done such thing?
Supposedly they took this "trick" from National Match armorer's trick. I would've thought the Loctite would cook off from the heat?
Basically you slop Loctite on the outer barrel extension (not the threads on the receiver) like lube and slide it in to the receiver. I can see the squaring the receiver but I'm wondering if Loctite was really necessary? Just wondering if anyone's done such thing?
Supposedly they took this "trick" from National Match armorer's trick. I would've thought the Loctite would cook off from the heat?
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I would've thought the Loctite would cook off from the heat?
Probably not on a NM gun, cause they don't let them get hot. But yeah, for the average turkey that's just a waste of loctite. If I was going to do that I would use Caterpillar exhaust manifold repair paste. That stuff is good to 1800?F.