Maintaining Your AR
You will probably spend a lot of time and/or money designing and building your AR. Proper AR maintenance will keep your gun running smoothly and make the most out of your investment.
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Your AR is a machine. Sometimes, even well-maintained machines stop working. Here, we go through a systematic troubleshooting of an AR, based on the symptoms and conditions of the malfunction.
Before you can clean and inspect your AR, it has to be disassembled. Here, we cover the process of disassembling your AR for full cleaning and inspection.
Now that your AR is disassembled, its time to clean and inspect. While everything is apart, you have a great opportunity to make sure everything is in tip-top shape. Here, we will explain our standard operating procedure for cleaning and inspecting an AR.
Before you reassemble your AR, you need to lubricate appropriately. Here we cover our standard operating procedure for lubrication of an AR.
Now that your AR is clean and slippery, its time to get it back in working order. Here, we cover the process of reassembly of an AR.
It doesn’t matter whether you just built a gun, or you just cleaned your gun. Before you hit the range, it is important to make sure everything is back together properly. Here, we run through our standard operating procedure for function check of an AR.
Even with proper AR maintenance, things break and wear out. As we cleaned the components of our AR, we inspected them for damage and wear. If parts need to be replaced, its best to replace them. Here, we cover the replacement of certain components that are prone to wear and damage.