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No heat shield

HellquestHellquest Member Posts: 74
edited February 2011 in General Discussion
I bought a AR upper . The handguard has no heat shield . Whats the worst this could do with out the metal heat shield inside ??
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  • CDMeadCDMead Member Posts: 2,141 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Melt on your hand.
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like someone assembled an upper cheaply useing atleast one set of airsoft AR handguards.
    I would swap them out for the real thing... AR handguards are cheap.
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  • HellquestHellquest Member Posts: 74
    edited November -1
    Thx guys ! Thats what i thought so i headed out already and picked up a new one !
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Heat shields or not, they all get hot.
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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some hand guards did come with out heat shields and they were not air soft. I'm not sure that that's as bad as it sounds as metal retains heat longer then plastic.
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by armilite1015
    Some hand guards did come with out heat shields and they were not air soft. I'm not sure that that's as bad as it sounds as metal retains heat longer then plastic.There's a very good reason Stoner designed the M16 with heat shields in the handguards. There's also a very good reason Colt doubled them when they improved it into the M4.

    To see for yourself, load up a couple of hundred rounds, remove your heat shields, quickly run those mags through the gun and let us know how things work out.

    I'd suggest keeping a fire extinguisher handy. [:D]
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  • quickmajikquickmajik Member Posts: 15,576 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I believe cavalry Arms makes a whole slew of guard configurations with single or double sheilds.
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