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landon410:
this was my first go at a 80% lower.
got the black EP Armory lower, and DPMS lower parts kit, everything went together pretty smoothly. The safety is pretty tight, but it does move without too much effort.
My biggest issue was getting the bolt catch roll pin started, that was a hassle, ended up using dish soap to help lube it up because that was all I had available at the time.
I was told the front pivot pin is a hassle to put in, must have gotten lucky, got it on my 2nd try.
Holding off with the rear take down pin as I don't have my buffer tube/stock yet.
I don't know if its "quality" or not compared to other polymer. I did put my friends colt upper on it, there was a small gap on the right side above the selector, but it felt like it mated well (again I didn't have either front or rear pin on it at that time, just set it on the lower)
I'm pretty happy, with it though.
now to shop to stocks
on the fritz:
Cool. Good for you. I had one of these EP lowers and had some issues with mine.
BE VERY CAREFUL THREADING THE BUFFER TUBE ON!!!!!!! It can easily cross-thread; which is what I did. :-[ :(
bkoenig:
Awesome. I really need to try one of these. I'd like to build a super lightweight .22 AR for my daughter some day.
newfalguy101:
--- Quote from: bkoenig on February 03, 2014, 04:29:51 PM ---Awesome. I really need to try one of these. I'd like to build a super lightweight .22 AR for my daughter some day.
--- End quote ---
I built an Ar for my wife using a New Frontier Armory poly complete lower mated to a DPMS Lite-16 upper. It was very lightweight, I would guess it was every bit of 4 lbs less than my 20" A-2 mutt
landon410:
this was really fun, and pretty easy, I'd tell anyone to give it a try.
If anyone wanted to look at my lower I'd be more than happy to line up a time to show it to you if you are consindereing an EParmory 80% I could give you my 2cents on how it went and what I could have done better, but for $65 including shipping, it was cheap enough to be really fun even when I didn't know what I was doing.
I'm really interested in gwacs, its a all one piece lower, the lower, pistol grip, butt stock, all one piece, supposed to be the lightest way to go.
http://www.gwacsarmory.com/
$130 for a stripped lower isn't terrible
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