Gunsmithing Check out this brand new Remington 700's recoil lug

[Mark Housel]

Remington does not have a "QC" problem, they have a problem with making mistakes. Simply trying to catch more of those mistakes before they leave the building is not the solution; they need to stop making them during the manufacturing process, instead of us heaping blame on whomever it was who last touched the rifle.

I'd say that is exactly right.

I remember working for a Telecom manufacturing company way way back in the dim past when I was a kid. (GTE Lenkurt in the early '70's).
Quality Control folks were real clear that "You cannot inspect in quality, you can only inspect for quality".

 

[flatland1]

I would think these things are assembled with a jig, which is why it baffles me that they can be this far off?

Exactly - how else could they expect to get the lug even close on an assembly line? Brownell's action wrench has a cut-out in the middle piece of the M700 head to align the factory lug when you install a bbl. I milled lug saddles out of thick-walled tubing for the Hollands & B-O lugs I typically install when doing a re-barrel job - short of pinning the lug, it's the only way to position them consistently, and be able to put a bbl'd action back into a stock that's been bedded without screwing things up.

How a bbl'd action with that much lug cant ever got out of the factory is a real puzzle - would love to hear Remington management's explanation.

 

[sentry1]

Remington does not have a "QC" problem, they have a problem with making mistakes. Simply trying to catch more of those mistakes before they leave the building is not the solution; they need to stop making them during the manufacturing process, instead of us heaping blame on whomever it was who last touched the rifle.

Remington's slacking off in the Six-Sigma department. They need to synergize that place.

 

[Lucky Jack]

Welcome to Remington Country. Try sending one of those rifles off to a repair facility. I and a rifle at one in Oklahoma for six months...and they never even looked at it until I went ballistic and called Field Services in NC. We had to send a Rem 700 Tactical back once time because it was a .308 but was marked .223 Rem.

 

[Capt Beach]

Excellent factory workmanship! That is embarrassing at best. NO QC. Slap it together and box it. Problem could be eliminated by pinning for nearly no $ as a step in assembly.

Mike

That might actually cost Remington 20-23 cents per rifle...remember it was Remington who for DECADES allowed bad triggers to leave the factory...potentially millions of the because it cost something like 17 cents to fix them but would have cost millions to admit it was wrong and recall all of them...

 

[FN in MT]

Many other Companies are just like Remington...run by the Accountants , striving for the best bottom line possible...not necessarily a quality product. The old days of a worker noting that deficiency, and simply fixing it...are gone.

 

[Clark]

At a gun show I got a Rem 700 7mmRM ADL made May 1963 with a stainless Hart barrel painted black.
The recoil lug had pits, maybe from the dissimilar metals.
I got a Holland recoil lug that was thicker. I drilled the receiver for a 3/32" pin at 0.605" below the barrel center line.
The pin keeps the recoil lug aligned while the barrel is screwed on.

 

[bptactical]

They must be subcontracting their work out to Chevrolet.......

I was thinking the "Angry Beavers" from Century...

Almost as bad is the "Special instructions for Remington 700" from Choate and their Super Sniper stock:

"If the barrel is not centered in the barrel channel it will not affect accuracy, however most prefer it centered. Using a brass hammer hit the recoil lug to center the barrel in the channel." might not be an exact word for word but it is refreshing to know that smacking the recoil lug is considered acceptable practice.*


*sarcasm

 

[E. Bryant]

Actually, straightening the recoil lug by tapping it with a brass hammer works just fine, and is preferable to someone attempting to loosen the barrel and get the lug positioned properly without access to the correct tools.