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Ar hand guard tool

Postby rwatson on Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:31 am

Hello,

Does anyone have a hand guard removal tool that i can borrow or help me switch out hand guards on my AR.

Rob
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby mnglocker on Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:35 am

Use your firm muscular hands. :?
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby FJ540 on Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:54 am

Or get your wife/gf/neighbor to pull the guards off while you hold the ring down.

Some of the guards on the guns I was looking at today were stuck together. It took a little force to get the halves to come apart even once the ring was clear of the bottom edge. Push sideways (towards the barrel) at the seam while you have the ring retracted. They'll come off.
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby hammAR on Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:58 am

I just used one of tootsies pipe wrenches.......only works if you are going to replace the guards....... :didntdoit:
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby SIGP240 on Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:59 am

yes, got all the tools
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby cobb on Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:28 pm

rwatson wrote:Hello,

Does anyone have a hand guard removal tool that i can borrow or help me switch out hand guards on my AR.

Rob


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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby hammAR on Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:03 am

mnglocker wrote:Use your firm muscular hands. :?


..works fine, don't need no stinking tool......it just pulls down......
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby selurcspi on Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:08 am

rwatson wrote:Hello,

Does anyone have a hand guard removal tool that i can borrow or help me switch out hand guards on my AR.

Rob


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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby Stradawhovious on Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:19 am

A couple of 1/4" (or 5/16") steel dowels and some surgical tubing from the deopt, and a strip of duct tape and you can make your own. Total cost about $4.
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby FJ540 on Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:16 pm

Do you have a pic of that contraption?
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby Stradawhovious on Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:20 pm

FJ540 wrote:Do you have a pic of that contraption?


Nope, but if you throw all of those ingredients in the pot, and come out with something that reasonably resembles this....
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Well, then, you win. Honestly, I have never done it with these components, but can't understand why it wouldn't work. When I needed to get my handguards off, I used a heavy Duty plastic coathanger from walgreens. Worked like a charm until I broke it, then I went out and bought another for 33 cents.
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby hammAR on Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:13 pm

Geez oh pete, just go to Wall/K-mart or Dollar store and get a Jar Wrench, they are $2.95......... :roll:

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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby mnglocker on Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:27 pm

hammAR wrote:Geez oh pete, just go to Wall/K-mart or Dollar store and get a Jar Wrench, they are $2.95......... :roll:

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I bet Tootsie has one for adjusting old Jar Heads. :P
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby FJ540 on Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:28 pm

I know what the commercially available ones look like (never had the need), but I'm very interested in the cobble job with tubing and duct tape.

Sounds "red green" and I wanted a good laugh. :mrgreen:
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Re: Ar hand guard tool

Postby Stradawhovious on Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:30 pm

hammAR wrote:Geez oh pete, just go to Wall/K-mart or Dollar store and get a Jar Wrench, they are $2.95......... :roll:


Way to suck all the fun out of this Gunny. :roll:
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