How to tighten Castle nut without Spanner wrench?

[-hanko]

15 posts because you are too cheap to buy a $6 wrench to do it right?
Next there will be the posts where you ask how to touch up the scratches you made on the receiver because you did not have the right tools for the job.

Get the right tools for the job.
Do it right already.

Any smith that works on ar's can do this for you in 2 minutes if the wrench is a problem...you can get the proper tool for well under $10, try RRA.

If tools are an issue, never consider an FAL

-hanko

[ar15barrels]

If tools are an issue, never consider an FAL

If tools are an issue, quit working on guns.

[Ballistic043]

uh,
ive never staked any of my AR castle nuts, ive never even used blue loctite on them and yet none have ever come loose. not even remotely. i go through 2-300 rounds per session. what gives?

do you think perhaps the problem is your not torqing it on enough? if you stake it, wtf happens when you need to remove the stock? then you have to hammer another dent in it after tearing the other one off?

[ar15barrels]

ive never staked any of my AR castle nuts, ive never even used blue loctite on them and yet none have ever come loose. not even remotely. i go through 2-300 rounds per session. what gives?

You don't shoot enough.
It will come loose eventually.

if you stake it, wtf happens when you need to remove the stock?
then you have to hammer another dent in it after tearing the other one off?

Replace the barrel nut and end-plate.
It's only like $5.

[Stormfeather]

Hi,

How do you tighten the castle nut on a collapsible stock without the special tool (spanner wrench?)? just wondering how some of you managed to do that because my castle nut keeps coming loose, albeit I'm only 'hand' tightening it as much as I can. Thanks for your tips.

Duct Tape. . . . . .

[Rem1492]

The nut may come loose eventually, but I dont stake mine incase I want to change my stock.

It takes thousands of rounds of rounds to loosen it.

At todays ammo prices, thats about $4,000-$5,000 from now

[Hoop]

I am close to you and I have an AR specific wrench.

Also,
There are pipe wrenches that have teeth that fit perfect without marring as well

Mine have a really pronounced point and fit exactly in the slots, go figure.

I wish I'd thought of staking it before I took a pipe wrench to mine.

Oh well it's a gun not a classic car, as long as it goes bang when I pull the trigger I can live with it looking like some idiot put it together...

[Ballistic043]

i even have the same stock on my shotgun, and even the recoil from that thing wont turn the nut loose.

guess im just lucky

[aplinker]

I wish I'd thought of staking it before I took a pipe wrench to mine.

Oh well it's a gun not a classic car, as long as it goes bang when I pull the trigger I can live with it looking like some idiot put it together...

Did you jack the nut or the tube? A new nut is about $5.

[jacques]

maybe try a strap wrench.. you know, one of those rubber band wrenches. Might work Also, put a small dab of BLUE (not RED) loc-tite on the threads.

Yes the BLUE locktite works great. Mine was coming loose everytime I went shooting. I put a little Blue locktie on it and tightened it with Channel locks, with a rag so I wouldn't scratch it up and it hasn't come loose since.