akpartskits.com ??

[busarich]

Have any of you purchased from these guys and if so how is the quality. There prices seems pretty cheap, almost to cheap

https://www.akpartskits.com

Rich

[RECCE556]

read my sig....

[FMJBT]

Have any of you purchased from these guys and if so how is the quality. There prices seems pretty cheap, almost to cheap

https://www.akpartskits.com

Rich

I bought my AR-10 upper from them a few years ago. It's not bad at all considering it was less than $400.00. Some light machining marks on some areas of the upper receiver, and the build quality in general looked kind of "rushed". It's definitely accurate though, and functions well with an Armalite carrier assembly.

[PolishMike]

read my sig....

Your sig bashes some pretty reputable companies.

[adamsreeftank]

They are selling Hesse uppers, which means they are probably just Hesse/Vulcan/Blackthorn with a new name this week.

Some may have had success with their products. Most probably not so much.

[Linus]

Check out Del-Ton.com instead.

[ghost]

read my sig....

i like bushmaster products,my upper shoots flawless.

[weezil_boi]

Model1Sales, Hesse/Vulcan/Blackthorne, etc.

Well, at least half this sig line makes sense

[Cali-V]

FWIW... I hear Model1Sales has a great return policy...

[RECCE556]

If those brands work for you, more power to you. I draw from my own fairly extensive experiene with those brands...

FWIW... I hear Model1Sales has a great return policy...

They need it!

[busarich]

Thanks for the info, I have a stag upper and see nothing wrong with it at all. I will be shooting it in the next couple of weeks.
Rich

[freakshow10mm]

So to avoid Stag/CMT also means avoiding all these companies that use CMT lowers:

Continental Machine Tool
* Stag
* Rock River Arms
* High Standard
* Noveske
* Century (New)
* Global Tactical
* CLE
* S&W
* MGI
* Wilson Tactical
* Grenadier Precision
* Colt

Noveske is considered by many to be a good quality lower, but since it's built by CMT, all should avoid it? Makes no sense to me.

[motorhead]

akpartskits=blackthorne. i've bought stuff from them. only prob. was a 74 brake w/bad threads. cheapest us pistol grips on the planet. source for galil parts.

[civilsnake]

So to avoid Stag/CMT also means avoiding all these companies that use CMT lowers:

Noveske is considered by many to be a good quality lower, but since it's built by CMT, all should avoid it? Makes no sense to me.

I wonder if perhaps different companies that use CMT for manufacturing have different requirements for testing in inspection. Could Noveske pay more to CMT to ensure that every receiver that is produced is tested and measured to verify that it's completely in-spec, while companies like Stag pay less to CMT and are willing to be a little more loose?

From what I've heard at gun shops and online, Stags do seem to have a higher rate of production defect and are more commonly just slightly out of spec. Whenever I hear or read about mags not dropping freely, Stag usually seems to be involved.

It's not to say that Stags are bad or don't work. But maybe they aren't held to the same tolerances.

[RECCE556]

Yes, CMT does manufacture for many different brands but CivilSnake brought up the correct point. Also, for those of you who have been around, Noveske had a batch of lowers where the pistol grip screw holes were misdrilled (wrong angle). Noveske had Tango Down give them grips with custom drilled grip screw holes. John disclosed the problem and sold those lowers (complete) for a discount.

Before that, some Noveske lowers had slightly crooked pistol grip screw holes and it was difficult to impossible to install a pistol grip. How do I know? I had FOUR of them and my buddies also ended up with some. This is why I sold all my Noveske lowers. I believe the new Noveske lowers are machined by LAR.

The early production problems with Smith & Wesson MP15's such as incorrectly beveled magazine wells, narrow magazine wells, barrel nuts that were NOT torqued down (basically loose), etc, etc. were from CMT.

Recent STAG lowers that have had problems....CMT....etc. CMT also had a big run of uppers (and this may still be the case) that had CROOKED threading so handguards would point upwards towards the muzzle. MSTN was returning a good percentage (I think like 50%) of the CMT uppers. I've personally had CMT uppers that didn't have the correct moly finish inside the upper and once that had very rough machine marks inside. I've NEVER had that problem with Colt's uppers (and I've handled a LOT of Colt uppers)

Just because the same manufacture makes stuff for different brands doesn't mean they make it to the same standard. You can tell just by how the different brands have different levels of forging flash removed. Some have practially none of it removed and others have it all removed. You think they're still made to the same standard?

I used to work in manufacuturing and there were different "levels" of quality that customers could buy and some companies wanted the "second hand" stuff because it was considerably cheaper. For them, they'd rather sell for less and deal with the occassional customer who actually bothers to return something. CMT does the same thing.

Now tell me this, if CMT is so fantastic at making everything, why is it that they STILL can not seem to correctly stake their bolt carrier keys for their own label (Stag)? It's called a "short cut" because they know the average commercial consumer isn't going to know the difference. That's also why their bolts and barrels are NOT individually HPT/MPI tested.