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Tried to remove one of the spacers in the butt pad - screws wouldn’t bottom out subsequently.

Are there shorter screws available for this?

 

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Are you planning on leaving the spacer out? I would just use a bench grinder to shorten them

 

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Edsel said:

Tried to remove one of the spacers in the butt pad - screws wouldn’t bottom out subsequently.

Are there shorter screws available for this?

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Take the screw into a hardware store, measure the pitch, buy shorter screws?

 

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Yeah, buy new shorter screws or cut them down. I’d buy new ones in case I’d add a spacer again. I don’t believe they’re special screws, but you could contact AINA.

 

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I should have rephrased that - were there supposed to be shorter screws included with the rifle?

Mine didn’t have any.

 

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They are just regular M6 metric screws, unless they change them to 1/4 UNC for the US market.

 

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M6 metric thread socket head

45mm length is the usual for one thick spacer plus one thin spacer

35mm for one thick spacer only

25mm for one thin spacer only

 

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carbonbased said:

Yeah, buy new shorter screws or cut them down. I’d buy new ones in case I’d add a spacer again. I don’t believe they’re special screws, but you could contact AINA.

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I was going to ask them for the thread / pitch / length, but AINA’s not very good at picking up nowadays.

As a matter of fact - when I called for something else late last year - they were damned snarky.

IK6243 said:

They are just regular M6 metric screws, unless they change them to 1/4 UNC for the US market.

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sidetoss20 said:

M6 metric thread socket head

45mm length is the usual for one thick spacer plus one thin spacer

35mm for one thick spacer only

25mm for one thin spacer only

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The stock screw pictured in the next post is something like 49 to 50mm.

Thanks!

 

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Home Depot…

Stock Allen screws are 4mm, these from Home Depot are 5mm - but the heads still fit in the relevant recesses.

 

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