Hello...how hard is it to assemble an 80% lower?
I've had ar's, ak's, and many other platforms for some years and enjoyed all of them but I've wondered about building one myself to make it exactly to my liking.
I'm a female with zero experience with milling or machining in general. I have watched the videos created by the various 80% lower sellers (usually with their jigs, drill bits, etc). Simply watching them makes it seem doable but of course there's an element of precision and manual dexterity that no video can convey.
I also read about enough failures to think it's not a total gimme that anyone can do it perhaps it's a question of the quality of the lowers.
Normally with an off the shelf ar, I'd look for a forged lower but imagine such a material is harder than say polymer while being much more robust.
So any that ought on how realistic this is for a first timer?
I'm well aware of aware stripped lowers, rifle kits, etc but my interest, given the current political climate and what's on the horizon, (perhaps you disagree but it looks iffy to me) is strictly in the feasibility of the 80% approach.
I won't list the companies I've looked at since that might violate the tos for the forum but I'm familiar with all the common ones and the jigs, kits, lowers, etc that they offer.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I've had ar's, ak's, and many other platforms for some years and enjoyed all of them but I've wondered about building one myself to make it exactly to my liking.
I'm a female with zero experience with milling or machining in general. I have watched the videos created by the various 80% lower sellers (usually with their jigs, drill bits, etc). Simply watching them makes it seem doable but of course there's an element of precision and manual dexterity that no video can convey.
I also read about enough failures to think it's not a total gimme that anyone can do it perhaps it's a question of the quality of the lowers.
Normally with an off the shelf ar, I'd look for a forged lower but imagine such a material is harder than say polymer while being much more robust.
So any that ought on how realistic this is for a first timer?
I'm well aware of aware stripped lowers, rifle kits, etc but my interest, given the current political climate and what's on the horizon, (perhaps you disagree but it looks iffy to me) is strictly in the feasibility of the 80% approach.
I won't list the companies I've looked at since that might violate the tos for the forum but I'm familiar with all the common ones and the jigs, kits, lowers, etc that they offer.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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