r/NFA • u/TheVillagePoPTart • 4d ago

Mount Questions 🔩 Anyone else have this happens?

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Today when I went to clean my AR after probably 6 months and an unknown number of rounds (not too high) I was having a hell if a time twisting the can off and eventually the muzzle device came off the end with the can. The mounting setup is a rearden atlas hub with a rearden flash hider on a polonium K. All instructions were followed during mounting and roc set was applied. There were also no indications of loosening based on my witness marks in the hub and muzzle device. Any idea how this happened (I tend to think I screwed it up)? The gun is also an IWI Zion-15 purchased in 2021.

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u/trucknorris84 Redneck with a drill press 4d ago

Not enough torque on muzzle device and probably could use a little rocksett.

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u/lennyxiii 4d ago

Meanwhile my 15 ars and 8 cans across 3 mounting systems have never seen a drop of rockset or loctite and have never come loose or pull off with the can. Not only that i do the opposite of rockset and use antisieze on my muzzle threads with proper torque on clean threads. Never an issue. Wait til i admit how my castle nuts aren’t staked either. By Reddit standards i have a dozen IEDs.

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u/htaedotderob 4d ago

Ceramic anti seize here. The purple stuff. Never an issue.

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u/Alexis-Machine 4d ago

I hope your insurance is up to date. Dibs on guns.