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  • rideordie
    • Feb 2007
    • 700

    Which Armorers tool?

    Need a new armorers tool. Which one should I go with? Here are the two I was looking at. What do you think?

    1. Gem State Armory



    2. DPMS

  • #2
    JDay
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Nov 2008
    • 19393

    I'd go with #1, looks much nicer and higher quality than the DPMS wrench.
    Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison

    The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)

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    • #3
      m98
      Veteran Member
      • Jul 2005
      • 4088

      I have the dpms. It's actually pretty well made. I picked it up on midwayusa for 20 or 30 bucks. I think it now goes for like 33 bucks. You can spend a few bucks more and try out the GSA one. It looks like quality built from the pics
      "Screw U guys, I'm going home"...:the great Eric Cartman

      10mm. Because .45ACP just doesn't cut it anymore. <Trailerparktrash>

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      • #4
        appagohm
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2011
        • 1123

        So expensive, i just picked up a cheap 15 dollar tool that looks like number 1, so far built over 15ar's with them, no problems. plus the cheap one i got has a square in the middle to connect a torque wrench.
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        • #5
          dieselpower
          Banned
          • Jan 2009
          • 11471

          either one or even just a barrel wrench and stock wrench is all you need.

          my stock wrench cost $3.99 at a gun show, has worked for me for over 12 years.

          my bushmaster barrel wrench has been used over100 times and does the job fine...http://www.bushmaster.com/products.asp?cat=15 cost 13.00. you need a 1/2 drive torque wrench to use it.

          I'd get a clamshell receiver block and a lower block as well as wrenches.

          EDIT-- OMG... just looked at that bushmaster page I linked...they are now charging a whole $7.00 for the stock wrench... price gougers!! LOL thats a joke people.
          Last edited by dieselpower; 02-19-2013, 6:29 AM.

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          • #6
            DrewN
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2012
            • 1887

            Shop gunsmithing tools (576) at Brownells, including bench blocks, hammer & punch sets, screwdrivers, and tool kits for firearm maintenance and repairs.


            Shop gunsmithing tools (576) at Brownells, including bench blocks, hammer & punch sets, screwdrivers, and tool kits for firearm maintenance and repairs.


            These are my go-to's.

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            • #7
              1911su16b870
              CGN/CGSSA Contributor
              CGN Contributor
              • Dec 2006
              • 7654

              The Gem state one has the barrel nut and the 3 prong stock nut wrench and looks good.

              I use the dpms barrel nut wrench and a separate 3 prong stock nut wrench.
              "Bruen, the Bruen opinion, I believe, discarded the intermediate scrutiny test that I also thought was not very useful; and has, instead, replaced it with a text history and tradition test." Judge Benitez 12-12-2022

              NRA Endowment Life Member, CRPA Life Member
              GLOCK (Gen 1-5, G42/43), Colt AR15/M16/M4, Sig P320, Sig P365, Beretta 90 series, Remington 870, HK UMP Factory Armorer
              Remington Nylon, 1911, HK, Ruger, Hudson H9 Armorer, just for fun!
              I instruct it if you shoot it.

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              • #8
                Xanatos
                Member
                • May 2012
                • 363

                I broke a DPMS wrench in half trying to remove a non-staked, non-loctited castle nut. Never buying their cheap pot steel "armorer's tool" ever again.
                Originally posted by JeremyS
                And menstrual cramps? Seriously, you [nrakid88] have complained about more things here than I think I have ever seen in a single thread ...air quality, noise, discomfort from glasses, "feminine attributes," and "macho masculinity," and sexism (there's an ironic disconnect here somewhere), compassion, grammar, people "tearing you down," your more-sensitive-than-normal ears, people who you perceive to be recoil-sensitive, how you "FEEL", liberals........ are you for real???

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                • #9
                  m98
                  Veteran Member
                  • Jul 2005
                  • 4088

                  Originally posted by Xanatos
                  I broke a DPMS wrench in half trying to remove a non-staked, non-loctited castle nut. Never buying their cheap pot steel "armorer's tool" ever again.
                  I'm gonna have to call bs on that if you dont actually have pics of the broken dpms wrench. The dpms that I have can withstand bashing in the aluminum buffer tube, castle nut, lower and upper receivers. You possibly got an airsoft china clone or a really bad lemon.
                  "Screw U guys, I'm going home"...:the great Eric Cartman

                  10mm. Because .45ACP just doesn't cut it anymore. <Trailerparktrash>

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                  • #10
                    1911su16b870
                    CGN/CGSSA Contributor
                    CGN Contributor
                    • Dec 2006
                    • 7654

                    My dpms barrel nut wrench has loosened and tightened hundreds of AR barrel nuts.
                    "Bruen, the Bruen opinion, I believe, discarded the intermediate scrutiny test that I also thought was not very useful; and has, instead, replaced it with a text history and tradition test." Judge Benitez 12-12-2022

                    NRA Endowment Life Member, CRPA Life Member
                    GLOCK (Gen 1-5, G42/43), Colt AR15/M16/M4, Sig P320, Sig P365, Beretta 90 series, Remington 870, HK UMP Factory Armorer
                    Remington Nylon, 1911, HK, Ruger, Hudson H9 Armorer, just for fun!
                    I instruct it if you shoot it.

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                    • #11
                      Xanatos
                      Member
                      • May 2012
                      • 363

                      Originally posted by m98
                      I'm gonna have to call bs on that if you dont actually have pics of the broken dpms wrench. The dpms that I have can withstand bashing in the aluminum buffer tube, castle nut, lower and upper receivers. You possibly got an airsoft china clone or a really bad lemon.
                      Because I'm going to keep a broken piece of metal for 3 years...
                      Originally posted by JeremyS
                      And menstrual cramps? Seriously, you [nrakid88] have complained about more things here than I think I have ever seen in a single thread ...air quality, noise, discomfort from glasses, "feminine attributes," and "macho masculinity," and sexism (there's an ironic disconnect here somewhere), compassion, grammar, people "tearing you down," your more-sensitive-than-normal ears, people who you perceive to be recoil-sensitive, how you "FEEL", liberals........ are you for real???

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