re: Official AR-15 thread

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ut I imagine its much harder than what this video is showing

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Didn't get to watch the video since I'm at work. But it's definitely not hard at all. Absolute hardest part is driving roll pins when building up the lower. And that's not hard, it's just annoying and risks scratching up the lower. The upper stuff you are talking about doing is easy. People talk about aligning the gas block as being difficult, but I've never found it difficult (have had issues tuning, but nothing to do with alignment of the gasblock itself)

As a few have said, it can get addicting (granted I have an obsessive personality). I literally bought a upper receiver vice block and a cheap armorer's wrench for like $25 or $30 total. Then go to auto zone to use their free tool loaner program to get the torque wrench. Outside of that it's allen wrenches and cheap punches I already had for cleaning handguns. Since early March, I've built 2 guns from scratch, and already have plans for the next gun. Too many cool things to put on the gun and you can't put them all on one gun, so you need more!!!