johnnyjm84 Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 It took about 10 mins to install. the top one is the m4 with the new mag tube and the bottom is the before picture. it took less than 3 weeks to arrive from when i ordered it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roofless Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Awesome congrats....mine took about one week to get in stock....looks good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4-Desert Camo Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Got mine yesterday too .... less than a week. Going to put it on my Desert Camo M4 .... probably not this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3gunner Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Looks good. Mine should be here today on maybe Monday! Do you have any tips for putting it on that fast? Did you have to use a heat gun? I don't have one and was hoping to get away with using a hair dryer... BTW. Great choice of weapons, I also own the Colt 6940LE and recently added the Eo tech G33 and 516, I highly recommend those optics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calviroman Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Harbor Freight has high temp electric heat guns on sale for $9.99 till late Sep. I got mine today. I did this job once before w/o a heat gun, used my gas stove top burner to heat up the area on the receiver where the tube threads in...which worked but was a PITA compared to a heat gun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyjm84 Posted September 7, 2013 Author Share Posted September 7, 2013 Looks good. Mine should be here today on maybe Monday! Do you have any tips for putting it on that fast? Did you have to use a heat gun? I don't have one and was hoping to get away with using a hair dryer... BTW. Great choice of weapons, I also own the Colt 6940LE and recently added the Eo tech G33 and 516, I highly recommend those optics! I bought a heat gun from home depot for about $40 then turned it all the way up to about 1500 degrees. I heated it for less than 5 mins & it screwed right out. Then I figured I wouldn't need a heat gun again so I returned it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyjm84 Posted September 7, 2013 Author Share Posted September 7, 2013 I did suffer a war wound though, as I was unscrewing it my wife distracted me at the perfect time & the spring shot out & gave me a small scratch on my forehead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadDad Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 I bought a heat gun from home depot for about $40 then turned it all the way up to about 1500 degrees. I heated it for less than 5 mins & it screwed right out. Then I figured I wouldn't need a heat gun again so I returned it I did suffer a war wound though, as I was unscrewing it my wife distracted me at the perfect time & the spring shot out & gave me a small scratch on my forehead That wouldn't have happened if you hadn't planned on returning the heat gun you "bought"... it's called karma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maynard Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Got mine yesterday from FFT too. Installed it before work. Definitely need a heat gun in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyjm84 Posted September 8, 2013 Author Share Posted September 8, 2013 That wouldn't have happened if you hadn't planned on returning the heat gun you "bought"... it's called karma Haha. I didn't plan on it, I might go back & get it cuz it seemed to b made pretty well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadDad Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Haha. I didn't plan on it, I might go back & get it cuz it seemed to b made pretty well. I bought a POS heat gun about 10 years ago at Harbor Freight when it was on sale and I used a coupon. Regular price was $10. I paid $3. Still works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scout_21 Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 (edited) I did some quick pulses with a bernzomatic propane blow torch down the stock mag tube from the loading port (after removing the sping and follower). Came out nice and easy with no damage to anything. Edited September 8, 2013 by Scout_21 spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4-Desert Camo Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Did mine this morning, piece of cake. Since I had the painted Camo finish M4 I only heated the mag tube and not the receiver. It took about 8 minutes to loosen up but then came right out. I didn't have much of a lock-tite mess to clean up either. The new tube went on like a charm and looks/functions good. Very glad I went with Titanium and not steel. Frankly I like the look of the gray on the Desert Camo model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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