How do you go about finding a gas block by set screw spacing. I'm replacing the hand guard and gas block on a dpms barrel that has been dimpled and the set screw spacing is something less than .400"., which seems to be pretty common. I need to find a gas block with that spacing or something wider, like .500", so I can dimple outside the existing dimple.. I know I can get by with one set screw, but tqo would be better. I could also pin the gas block, but I don't want to buy another tool just to do one barrel.
Gunsmithing Specific Gas Block Spacing
- Thread starter Rlandry
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The hole for the gas tube is in the same position above the center of the bore on all gas blocks. The low profile description fits when compared to a FSB. Have you tried what you have inside your new handguard?
I forgot to order a lo-pro gas block when I took the crap off my DPMS. One of those silly picatinny rail blocks. I'm 99% sure There was only a dimple on the back screw. The front screw was just a self-setting one that made a little mark in the barrel when torqued.
I took an angle grinder and made that bitch fit under the handguard. Little sharpie action and you can't tell since I went to a 13" on a carbine gas system.
Most all my other AR's wear clamp-on blocks from Superlative Arms. Best adjustable gas block I've found. I'll never dimple, or pin, anything ever again as the clamp works and has nothing disrupting the barrel.
I took an angle grinder and made that bitch fit under the handguard. Little sharpie action and you can't tell since I went to a 13" on a carbine gas system.
Most all my other AR's wear clamp-on blocks from Superlative Arms. Best adjustable gas block I've found. I'll never dimple, or pin, anything ever again as the clamp works and has nothing disrupting the barrel.
