I think I came across your pics of the removed nut if memory serves.Blackstuff wrote:That's the problem, he's got form for it. He purposely fitted non-standard foreends/barrel nuts (to the original ones at least) so you'd have to go to him for a replacement as the normal AR barrel nut wrenches don't fit. He was quite flabbergasted when I told him I'd already replaced mine using just a hammer and punchRob1 wrote: I can see no reason why any mil spec or commercial tube wouldn't fit as the threads are industry standard, unless of course a builder ism has snook in to limit meddling....
I tried to limit that with the 9mm build by sending him the forend that I wanted (Hogue Tan ) my guess being that the nut used for that should be a standard one, however I have not tried to remove it yet for swap rounds so cant be sure. For sure that wont be the case for the 5.56 as I was told very clearly that they would only fit their supplied QD forend with that build, when I was talking to one of the builders/smiths on a previous conversation about the 9mm, he said it was done intentionally to reduce and limit work round the gas parts, I guess again that would be for cornering the sales of front end furniture, though that wasn't said directly it wasn't hard to figure.
Shame that even though the gun builder site states "build your dream rifle " you actually can't, you can only build it within SGC's limit of what your dream should be....
I have an allowance for 1,000 rounds of 9mm so will be topping up my stock this Saturday nearer to home 