anyone else have stripped threads on the frame (or screws)?
I got this used Condor from a member here and I ‘m having all sorts of issues. One of them is with stripped screws or threads.
I seem to have threads stipped all throughout this gun. The most important 2 are:
1. the 2nd screw from the end of the frame that holds the barrel into place is stripped, or maybe the threads in the frame are stripped? There is some slight movement in the barrel and I think this is the culprit.
The other is the forearm screw. The forearm was a little loose and had lateral movement when I first got the gun and yesterday I went to pick it up and I grabbed the it from the forearm . Well the entire piece came off in my hand and almost dropped the rifle. I attempted to screw it back in but the screw just keeps turning. I put in the screw without the forearm piece and it screws in nice and tight but it’s hitting the power wheel so the screw is secure only when it’s too far down. It looks like the first couple of threads on the screw or in the frame are stripped. Can’t tell which one. I put the forearm piece back on but the screw won’t go deep enough to hold it in place and it just keeps turning.
I ‘m more concerned with 1 of the screws that secures the barrel further up in the frame but would like to have a forearm so I can shoot the gun properly.
What do you guys do in situations like this? I ‘m sure someone has run into this. Do you think it’s the screws or the threads in the frame causing the problem?
thanks
Harry
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thanks for all the suggestions!
Harry
Go to a gun shop or look in the yellow pages for a gunsmith. He will be able to helicoil or drill and tap a new hole.
Two hands and a couple of cans of spinach. 😆
A drill press would be helpfull, but you don’t need it. I drilled the hole in my frame for the trigger mod with a hand drill. I held the frame in my left hand, and the drill in my right 😛 Worked out perfectly.
There isn’t really any expertise involved. Just drill it out and re-tap. It is aluminum so you could just use cheap chinese taps.
It’s not really quite that simple. He has to find a way of securing the frame before he tries to drill it. And get a hand-drill straight? Gore, mangle, crater, shred. 😆
I wouldn’t do it without a nice vice and press-drill myself.
Once the hole is drilled the tapping is relatively straight-forward, having asertained the correct grub size relative to the hole and identifying it’s thread specs etc.
Which is why it’s so much easier, being destitute of the right tools oneself, to hand it over to a shop and go “I want that one.”*
* Little Britain. 😆
The tools? All you need is a tap set, a drill bit, and a hand drill.
There isn’t really any expertise involved. Just drill it out and re-tap. It is aluminum so you could just use cheap chinese taps.
Thanks guys. That’s what I was thinking, re-threading to a bigger size.
I don’t have the tools, nor the expertise to do this. Should I take it to a machine shop, or a gunsmith?
The problem is this gun was taken apart by Airhog (it’s an Airhog Condor, with some of their internal parts) and by its last owner who is experimenting building big bore guns, so my guess is these grubs were on & off the gun several times..
I’ve not had the problem personally, but others that have I think they drilled and tapped to a larger size.
heli-coil thread repair kit.
The screws (grubs) are steel, the frame is aluminium, so it’s going to be the threads in the frame that are damaged.
The best solution that I can think of is to drill out the holes and re-thread them to take a bigger grub. I guess you could fill in the damaged threads with epoxy and re-thread them, but I don’t know how long that would last. You might also get away with just re-threading over the old threads with the next-size-up tap, and go one grub-size bigger.
I’m sure somebody will be along right sharpish however, to tell me what a twat I am and put you on the right path. 😆
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Heck I have had my rifle apart more then a few times and that has never gave me any trouble LOL… I don’t think taking them apart messes the threads up really, its when someone gets things cross-threaded or over tightened does that…
If I ever had to deal with something like stripped threads in my rifle, I would most certainly put a helicoil in it. That would be basically better than new, with the thread insert that you loctite in place being stainless alloy material.
But doing the helicoil fix does require someone that has been to that rodeo more than once and/or very good with tools and hands and been on the track more than a few times. It would be best to have this done for you from the sounds of it dude… But rest assured once helicoiled right, its fixed really well.
Heck, I have even thought about putting helicoils in all the tapped holes of my Condor, as I just like the whole idea of these installed in any aluminum myself!!! Just would be time consuming…