Re: Brand new LMT... Broke
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pmclaine</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Well if a better tourque wrench meant another $200 to the price I'd ask that they keep the wrench or make it optional. I have a nice wrench, I dont need another - unless they were going to provide a Seekins or something packable.
The coin spent should be for the rifle. They have decided to meet their MSRP by cheaping out on the wrench. What they should be faulted for is not including extra bolts and a warning that the wrench is for intermittent use and should be excercised/verified prior to use on the rifle. They would be better not including it if the one they have is creating enough problems that a Google search turns up a number of similar posts. </div></div>
Truly nailed it...my own personal tests over the years using MRP/MWS platforms have clearly shown that torque amt. isn't sensitive at all. After at least a cpl. hundred individual barrel swaps, I slowly come to the method of almost never using any kind of TW...a T-handle once you get used to doing this incredibly easy task is all you need.
Thank the stars LMT doesn't tack on $150-200 on the tag of already perhaps lb. for lb. the most expensive AR out there. Quite frankly Ive always been surprised they've managed to provide any TW with both the rifles or an upper for essentially free. They wouldn't be unreasonable to expect the end users to provide themselves with the tool needed since they themselves have to outsource them.
Why risk the small inconvenience of sheering a bolt with an over torque amount when I can assure you that using any torque amt. in the range of say 100-140....as that is what I've actually tested is all that it requires. Another thing is that you might be able to go with 90 even considering that the very first GEN 1 MRP chassis back in the fall of 2004 had 2 individual silver washers under the bolts and the manual called for 90in/lb. After a year or two LMT switched to the current figure eight washer that fits under the bolts and now all manuals call for the 140in/lb setting.
My pal at LMT doesn't use a TW on his MRP/MWS....and two of the first MRPs users I know of, that own multiple ones use nothing but a T-handle wrench.
Not really fair to call a brand new MWS broken when it's a bolt that was designed to sheer when over torqued by the <span style="text-decoration: underline">end user</span>...not the <span style="text-decoration: underline">mfg'r</span>
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