Flash Hider is installed SUPER TIGHT!

[shopkeep]

OK I'm sure the flash hider isn't welded onto the rifle but it sure feels like it. Do I need to have the armorer's grip to get enough torque to remove the flash hider? How can you tell if a hider is welded?

The rifle in question has an Armalite upper that was built 2006 and has an A2 flash hider. I know the barrel is threaded because it's NOT a slip-on hider. I'm trying to get it off so I can toss on a brake and build up an SRB.

[grammaton76]

It might be secured the same way as the A2 buttstock screws I got... there's apparently a bit of paint on one side of it, which makes it really lock onto those threads tightly. Once it's on there well, the only thing you're going to turn by twisting your screwdriver on THAT thing, is the buffer tube out of the receiver!

[shopkeep]

It also irks me that they didn't put a crush washer on, because that makes it that much harder to take off !!!

Although I will say that my Armalite upper is by far the most reliable upper and has not every jammed. My Bushmaster upper tends to jam sometimes during extraction after long sessions of bump-firing.

[stevie]

Look for any coloration difference on the flash hider. My preban has a pinned muzzle brake that is welded over the pin. You cannot see it except for discolored welding mark. Worth a look see.

[expo]

maybe im crazy, but i thought all flash hiders had to be perm fixed, in all of the us............. non class 3?

[blkA4alb]

maybe im crazy, but i thought all flash hiders had to be perm fixed, in all of the us............. non class 3?

yea your crazy, no flash hider has to be fixed.

[tenpercentfirearms]

The two I have taken off so far take a whole lot of torque from a really big cresent wrench to get them off and a whole lot of torque from the same wrench to get them back on. You will certainly need a vice for this operation.

[Josh]

The two I have taken off so far take a whole lot of torque from a really big cresent wrench to get them off and a whole lot of torque from the same wrench to get them back on. You will certainly need a vice for this operation.

sounds like locktite was on there.

[DigglerD]

It might be secured the same way as the A2 buttstock screws I got... there's apparently a bit of paint on one side of it, which makes it really lock onto those threads tightly. Once it's on there well, the only thing you're going to turn by twisting your screwdriver on THAT thing, is the buffer tube out of the receiver!

That "paint" was most likely loc-tite and if it's red... good luck, you will probably have to heat it to kill the thread locking compound... but then that might %$^ up your barrel.

[xenophobe]

Call Armalite. Perhaps they silver solder their flash hiders on, for some unknown reason...

[coltn46920]

I know this is an old thread but. I just got a bcm upper and have the same problem I want to remove the flash hider but it's on super tight. My guess is it has loc-tite as well. How am I suppose to remove this?

[tomd1584]

put it in a vise and a BIG wrench. Cant believe I posted in a thread 5 years old...

[NewbieDave]

LOL...

Coltn46920 have been reading some old threads.... hope the OP got his hider off by now.


~dpc

[PyroFox79]

Put a little M A N into it.

[NYY]

ya the A2's put on by factory are screwed on FUC*ING tight.... if you dont wanna buy the right tools like a block or anything... do what i did and just wrap the stock in blankets...throw it in a vice... and screw that shi* off with pliers...but thats my way of taking down my rifles