I am getting tired of set-screw gas blocks. I went to change the dust cover on one of my AR's. Took off the free-float hand guard. Barrel nut was still in the way so I removed it, but, I had to remove the gas tube. I go to drive out the pin holding the gas tube, but the set-screw gas block twists out of place, so I have to remove it as well. Just as well because the dimple for the set screw was not deep enough and needed to be drilled deeper. Fixed that and it seems much better.
So this is one reason I have AR's that use a sight tower; these are staked to the barrel. Now that I have a drill press, I am really thinking about replacing all my set-screw gas blocks with staked blocks. When I took the SOTAR builder's course Chad talked me into astaked pinned gas block for that build and it has been solid.
Any of you guys usedstaked pinned gas blocks, or do I just need to do a better job of dimpling for my set-screw blocks?
So this is one reason I have AR's that use a sight tower; these are staked to the barrel. Now that I have a drill press, I am really thinking about replacing all my set-screw gas blocks with staked blocks. When I took the SOTAR builder's course Chad talked me into a
Any of you guys used
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