• God damn this flash hider is hard to remove
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I have the Cybergun SiG. Before I get flamed with "but cyberGun sucs and so do u," this gun is the same as the JG SiG 552, and thus the same as the JG G36. So I have Cybergun's SiG 552, and the flashhider is a bitch to get off. Cybergun likes glueing on their lovely orange flash hiders, even though there's 14mm negative threads underneath. I got from here [media]http://i47.tinypic.com/ivhdev.png[/media] "...twist the flash hider clockwise to loosen it (facing muzzle.)" I've been doing that with vice grips and some rigged toothed plyers, and yet nothing. Any ideas or experience with this? Its a do or die kind of deal now.
Stick it in boiling water then use those pliers of vice grips. If that doesn't work, try a blowtorch. And if that doesn't work use a saw.
I'm trying to think: Inner Barrel - Metal Outer Barrel - Metal Front sights - Metal/rubberish thing. Guess boiling water would work for softening up the glue. If I just dipped the flash hider and a bit of the outer barrel into boiling water, will any harm come to the gun?
Nope.
Oh well I'll do that tommorow then and post the results.
I always used vice grips on my TMs, just got it so tight it bent the flashhider then twisted the shit out of it, destroying the flashhider in the progress.
Real men don't need puny boiling baby water, WE USE OUR MUSCLES! (read that as arnold shwertwatevercantspellhisname)
[QUOTE=BlueSaint;19551823]Real men don't need puny boiling baby water, WE USE OUR MUSCLES! (read that as arnold shwertwatevercantspellhisname)[/QUOTE] Water is babyman!
[url=http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthread.php?t=45988]Read this.[/url] [The last post, to be specific]
At least yours isn't permanently stuck there. On my M4 there are 2 little metal rod things sticking out of the barrel into the flash hider.
[QUOTE=Stupideye;19561907][URL="http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthread.php?t=45988"]Read this.[/URL] [The last post, to be specific][/QUOTE] Yup, small torch is the way to do it. Just be sure you pull the inner barrel out before you do it. Last thing you want is the inner barrel to heat up so much the hop-up bucking starts melting onto it. If it's a plastic flash hider, it may still work, but it's going to get messy. You may have to burn of any remaining bits of plastic once you twist it off.
I have a really bad habit of posting about a problem, then figuring out how to fix it. I managed to get my flash hider off, and now there's an 8 inch silencer in its place :v:
Pics or it didn`t happen :P
Reminds me to remove my UTG L96's orange tip, time to get a blow dryer and a flathead screw driver. I really hate how they glue on the orange tips. Heat does the trick on any glued orange tip/flash hider.
Nowhere in my house is there a small blowtorch. I'm really weak, put bluntly, but I've made progress. I noted yesterday when I stopped twisting that one of the prongs lined up with the front sight. Now it's about a quarter rotation over, so I'll get this thing off eventually. So let me clear this up. If I hold the gun so the flash hider is pointed up, I twist clockwise or counter-clockwise. I've been twisting clockwise.
Turning it clockwise is correct for a CCW 14mm thread to remove it. I'd really doubt they'd put a 14mm+ thread on it, but I know one brand of M4's that was like this.
Excuse me if I sound like a broken record at this point, but this is yet another question that should have gone in [url=http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=866476]this thread.[/url]
And it's SIG, not SiG.Boiling water should help you.
[QUOTE=Lance99;19574286]And it's SIG, not SiG.Boiling water should help you.[/QUOTE] You sure because people still thing it is VaLvE. or whatever the shit. LOGO's DON'T MAKE THE NAME!
Yeah boiling water is actually a decent idea. Anything to heat it up without completely melting the flash hider (assuming its plastic).
OP,let us know if you succeed or not. BTW,straight from wikipedia: [B]Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft[/B] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language"]German[/URL] for [B]Swiss Industrial Society[/B]), or [B]SIG[/B]
Remnds me of when I took my flash hider off and it took all my threading with it. It sucked, to say the least.
Well I failed. Actually failed a while ago but still had hope and I have been on off tugging at it. Just managed to tear up the flash hider and now it's my friend's brother's problem. He's 11 so I don't think he'll care too much. Now I have a CA proline M4. Much happier.
Congrats on the epic bamp.
Not much of a bump, it wasn't even halfway down the page. It automatically get's pushed down after a day or so.
Paint over it? Spray it the color of the barrel.
I'm here to inform you that removing the orange flash hider violates both the warranty, return policy and the law of all 50 states in the United States of America.
Okay, represent for us. So how about if I wanted a barrel extension in the form of a mock suppressor? Is that too against the law? Obviously it isn't enforced to the point where the police, or whomever, tracks down people who post pics of them and their guns without orange tips. I don't see a problem with removing it when I get to the field and putting it back on for the drive home and leaving it on until I next gather with my airsoft buds to play a game at an [I]airsoft[/I] field. It's not like I'm running around in public with it. I keep it in it's gunbag at home, in the car, walking to my car, etc etc.
Shoot all my guns have black metal flash hiders or silencers on them. And I'm in CA, state with a shit load of gun laws. If it was so illegal, then why is my local AEX allowed to sell additional flash hiders and silencers then? From what I heard, the orange flash hider is really only need for when a store is selling the gun. After that, the owner can do whatever they damn well please.
[QUOTE=xXEnder007Xx;20133871]Shoot all my guns have black metal flash hiders or silencers on them. And I'm in CA, state with a shit load of gun laws. If it was so illegal, then why is my local AEX allowed to sell additional flash hiders and silencers then? From what I heard, [b]the orange flash hider is really only need for when a store is selling the gun.[/b] After that, the owner can do whatever they damn well please.[/QUOTE] that's what i heard, I've never seen or heard of a field that has mandatory orange tips either
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