$2000 worth of gauges and tools. Uses two quarters to check a gas key clearance. Finally, a gauge I actually have! This is why I'm a fan. 👍 Always learning something new.
Add a quarter to make it work. This is genuinely a real method for balancing your buffer and real armourers as well as race gunners use it. Great if you have a specific ammo you always use but not so much if you shoot different ammo. (We, the royal we that is) use this method to soften recoil by adding coins, (always a quarter on each end) until the gun barely works to “game” the gun for function/recoil managment.
@@racp9mm419 you drop the coin(s) in the bottom of your buffer tube to increase the load on your buffer spring. Once you get your buffer balanced you can buy a new spring with greater tension to swap it or just run it with the coin(s).
This is fantastically educational, I don't even have any problems with my ARs and it's fascinating to see how you inspect and unpack these very important details.
Lol, i love when ar snobs bash on "the poors" for Anderson lowers. Its just a box to put stuff in. If you put good stuff in the box, it works great. I think Anderson had some QC issues, but they seem to have improved.
@@sooneradmirer4382 Yep. There's no qualifications test for knowledge/skill/experience before posting a comment on the internet. "Keyboard warriors" can type whatever they like and unfortunately, innocent people can be fooled by a bunch of know-nothing typists... or uncritical fawning fans of a brand... or mere trolls looking to stir up trouble.
Exactly why I made Anderson my 1st Ar after hours of reading reviews and specs. I don't need to go completely into my reasons for limited income but suffice it to say I could only afford to buy 1 go / home defensive and occasional plinking 5.56 16" platform. This company was one of only maybe 3 I narrowed down to my price range and quality expectations ( not always even 2 things that can go together) but in the end there was 1 clear winner and offering a metal lower at that... Anderson manufacturing am15 for the win made in Hebron Kentucky USA, no brainer in my book and experience. GOD bless America🇺🇸 Thank you Anderson manufacturing.
Im fairly new to building, only done 7. And never thought to of checked that before. I'll be checking that out on each of them tho. I've definitely learned alot from watching him. He was recently recommend by a man I spoke with over the phone from Vltor.
@@six159 not necessarily. I'm sure he has the gucciest of gucci to the point he can't afford ammo bc he dumped $2,000 into a rifle, modified it, built a new one out of the parts he took out of his original one, etc. But there is a point of these really expensive lowers and uppers. They fit on tightly, really nice parts, they feel good to hold and even better to shoot. That's about it. Doesn't matter if it's a PSA or LWRC, if it's a functional rifle then it's a functional rifle.
Was suggested in a fb group to check your vids out and I’m hooked… fairly new to firearms and just watching your vids on the insides of these firearms especially cuz I have an Anderson has really given me confidence to not be afraid of disassembling my rifle and learning more about em, thank you!!
I've got an Anderson lower with ambidextrous safety selector, it was a complete lower from Anderson I got at a fantastic price and put my 10.5" Aero precision upper on it and the two fit very very well together. I am using an Aero BCG and it runs fantastic and I couldn't be happier!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and another great video. I don't know why some try to knock Anderson manufacturing. I have never had an issue with them. Like yourself, I mic the trigger pocket walls on every lower prior to building, and Andersons have been dead even every time.
i know this is an old video, but thank you so much for all the informational content you put out. Your video with the rear takedown pin trick saved me so much hassle, and i went through my lower as you went through this one in the video just to make sure mine was exactly the same results as yours! Thank you so much for being so informative and down to earth!
Thanks, This video helped me out, I just got a Anderson lower and it seems to check out as well. But then again I used a different parts kit then the Anderson one.
There are Anderson haters out there, but having been a 2111 in the Marine Corps, I see nothing wrong with the ones I have used in the civilian market. The ones I’ve had come across my bench have all been well made examples. Semper Fidelis🇺🇸
Same. I have 3 assembled on Anderson lowers and my dad has 2. Zero issues. Half the people whining about them being junk probably own a gun with a lower built by them just engraved differently.
@@SchooloftheAmericanRifle Hard to find parts on some thing by using plain ole terms when searching. Noun nomenclature is a way of life in the military.
Anderson lowers are the best bang for the buck. I prefer the Aero Precision parts because of the adjustment screw to match up to the upper, but the Anderson lowers are extremely well made. They have their manufacturing process well dialed in.
@@corbinleiby7461 LOL - Looks like they stole a page from Aero Precision. Kudos to Anderson. You have me thinking. Is Aero Precision making the lowers for Anderson? I know that AP makes OEM parts for other companies, but they keep it a secret.
@@jeremyjeremy8795not true man. Many manufacturers are punching out of spec receiver. Just watch a few of this guys videos. He had a Knight Armament blem lower that was crazy bad.
Great video good sir. An 8-pound Mil trigger must feel like dragging a dead cow across a 4-lane highway. I would suggest he pick-up a LaRue Tactical MBT-2S, or MBT-2S-SB either of which is a 2-stage National Match which break clean at 3-to 3-1/2 pounds. They are on sale at this time for $80 for the hammer/trigger set with springs.
@@jonmeray713 Yeaaah no. ^_^ Why subject yourself to one when a far better system costing little more than a Mil-standard is available? o_0 Having pulled and tested ten's of thousands of M16 series triggers over a 25 year Army carrier starting as a 45-Bravo Small Arms Repairer and ending as a Senior Ordnance instructor. So for me, just no thank you. >_
Just my opinion. The majority of AR owners are putting maybe 150 rounds through their rifle every other year. In a stressed self defense situation a 3 1/2 pound match grade trigger is a poor choice for MOST people. On the other hand many standard Mil triggers are just awful until broken in but sadly most people will never fire enough rounds to do that. I always recommend an aftermarket trigger in the 4 1/2~5 1/2 pound range. Lately the Ruger Elite 452 trigger is where I try to steer people.
I didn't know any of these tools existed, or things to check were actually things to check! man that was a impressive work bench! I have my mallet and a allen key
Now I need more tools...Brownell's magazine catch tool. Oh wait I don't have any of his gauges (but do have go and no-go gauges). Also watching these videos is like watching "Casablana", you know what's going to happen next and how it's going to end but you always get something different out of it every time.
If the buffer goes too far to the back and strikes the gas key and lower receiver a quick fix would be to add quarters at the back inside of the buffer tube before putting in the spring until you have the correct clearance of the gas key to receiver, it’s not a permanent fix but can get you out of a damaging jam!😉
I have a brand new Anderson upper and where the upper meet the lower you can see the edge of the upper has a slight “wave” to it. Doesn’t bother anything except my ocd.
On one of my Aero M4E1 lowers, the pivot pin is tight. Tried a couple different pins and samething. It works just tight. Have to use a bullet or whatever to get it out when breaking down. All other Aero lowers I have no issue. But so far my favorite lower is my newest addition is the SOLGW angry patriot. A buddy has a few anderson lowers and they run perfectly.
Someone has surely caught it by now, but that mark on the receiver from the gas key is likely from the operator placing an upper on the lower without the buffer and spring by accident and charging the bcg to the rear. Seen that all the time in the army, when soldiers turn in their weapons after cleaning, and forget the buffer. Great video.
Sample of one. I've personally seen an Anderson lower where the bolt release was too far back to lock open any magazine and there is a video on here that shows an Anderson lower where the magwell wasn't machined out and could not accept any magazine what so ever. That seems like very poor qc
built 4 in the last year. not one issue. It’s a lower. if the holes are the right size and in the right place then the lower is absolutely indistinguishable from any other, except cosmetics and particular preferences.
I've got 2 different Anderson lowers, one of them is their ghost lower with no logo and I guarantee a lot of people wouldn't know it wasn't one of those high-dollar lowers. I've been very pleased with Anderson compared to other lowers I have that were twice the price.
It’s true, but the odds of getting one that’s in spec even to the extent of this example seems fairly slim from the physicals I’ve seen of Anderson products.
@@froggerjohn427 never said anything different.. I personally use Aero receivers but have a guy who shoots with me that has one he uses and just shooting with me he's put put a ton of rounds through it in just the last year.. but yeah.. if you get one it needs checking period. But my comment still stands.. if it's in spec it's fine.
@@froggerjohn427 I’ve built over 30 lowers using mostly Anderson, and their LPK’s, I have never found anything out of spec, or a single issue to date. Fingers crossed.
Video may be 3 years old, but as a horseman in real life, I always like to see a grass-fueled pony get through a checkup and be declared healthy. As a shooter, that goes just as true for the gunpowder fueled "Poverty Ponies" - Got a small herd of those along with the hayburners. Never have understood the grumbling about Anderson lowers. No blatantly obvious problems with any of mine so far. 👍 Nice presentation.
So far I say Anderson offers a good product for the money. As for any brand It is good to run a proper sized drill bit with your fingers in the roll pin holes to make sure the hard coat didn`t tighten up the holes and you will have no issue driving the roll pins in. Cudos to the School of the American Rifle.
Poverty Pony FTW! :) And if anybody thinks I'm being snotty at Anderson lowers, think again - I'm a happy owner of 3 of 'em. Only problem I've had with any of them turned out not to be a problem with the lower, but the takedown pin that came with the LPK - it was just a titch fat, so it took some extra "oomph" to get it to either seat, or pop out. Not enough to put the rifle out of action, but enough to be annoying when trying to open or close it. Chucking up the pin in my drill-press, spinning it up to 540 or so and touching it lightly with emery cloth a few times cured that problem.
I bought some 80% Anderson lowers a while back. First thing I noticed was the rear lug recess (presized and anodized ) on one of them was undersized. I haven’t checked all of them yet.
Anderson provides the lowers for many high priced rifles. Anderson knows what they're doing and has been doing it for a long time. The price is not indicative of the quality. People will always pay for the most expensive things for the wrong reasons.
I've had my pins walk out (daniel defense parts kit) on my anderson lower, I assumed either one or the other was slightly out of spec. Installed some anti rotating pins as my hillbilly fix. I spent more $ on the lpk than I did on the lower.
Have you ever heard of an Anderson lower "breaking"? Ive only ever heard of them being out of spec, the ones that arent seem to last just as long as any other so basically forever...
Bought an anderson lower once, and only once. Something with the safety detent hole was out of spec, as in the safety would barely engage. When the selector was moved to safe, it would barley engage. Just the slightest bump and the safety would switch to fire. Replaced spring, detent pin, same issue. Sent the lower back to anderson, second one had same issue. Ended up trading that lower off.
@@corbinleiby7461 Yes, I tried two or three safety selectors, and a couple of detent pins. Even ordered Colt parts from Brownells and they did not work either.
Cheap, no, inexpensive yes. You do realize very well-known, hence more costly, lowers are manufactured by the highly regarded Northern Kentucky based manufacturer, Anderson! Right?
Ive assembled 3 Ar-15’s with Anderson lowers and I had clearence problems with all of them. I needed to dremel out the mag release button openings and the bolt release openings, plus they have a sloppy fit to the uppers. Other than that they are totally usable and work as good as my 2a and Aero receivers. For my budget builds I now use ATI forged lowers because its threaded to capture the rear take down pin detent spring and they have the threaded hole for the teflon tipped lower to upper tensioning screws. The ATI’s are cheaper where I live, and Ive had no problems with clearencing to install lower parts kits. And I use only quality lower parts kits.
Some of these other gun experts on You Tube have extra skill where they can evaluate these receivers and BCGs without needing any of these fancy gauges. They can just hold it up and look at it with their naked eye, and be like umhm yeah that is a great BCG, everything looks perfect or whatever. No gauges needed for these super pros, their eyeballs just know.
Man oh man they way you just popped them trigger housing pins in like it was nothing makes me hate myself it took me a long time maybe a hour and a half to get mine installed but for my own defense this was the vary first AR I put together. I also have a stripped Anderson lower.
Curious if you have done any checks on Odin Works Zulu 2.0 adjustable butt-stock? It has an additional, small spring in their receiver extension. I have one on my AR15 and it works great. It changed the felt recoil just enough to go from good to very good target reacquiring after firing and my ejection is about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="210">3:30</a>-<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="240">4:00</a>. I rechecked the BCG space as you had in this video just to make sure. Thanks!
Great video. After watching your video, I looked at my lower receiver and noticed that my buffer tube is slightly off. Clocked just a slight amount off, not bent or anything like that. I thought to adjust it, but its only slightly off and doesn't seem to actually matter functional speaking or otherwise. I can't really see why it being off slightly matters. How closely aligned does it have to be? It seems if it is off a little it wouldn't actually matter. Am I wrong? What would be within limits? I served in the Army, I wouldn't be surprised to find a few military rifles slightly off in that regard. Especially considering the way some of the dopes I served with handle things...
I got rid of my Anderson lowers I bought three at one time two of them would not except aftermarket magazines. One had a safety dent hole. It wasn’t drilled deep enough.
You would have a field day with some of the parts I have had that are out of spec.I have bad luck..I have a question that u may only know.I ordered 3 dsarms m16 cut lowers in the last couple weeks. I built one and originally installed a cmmg parts kit and noticed the fcg pins fit awful one side will stick out while the other side is sunk in, (not too crazy) I noticed that if the selector lever was 1/4 off of safe and I pressed the trigger hard it drops the hammer, I ordered a larue mbt 2s trigger for it and it will not install,i can get the pin to go in one side but on the other side the hole on the receiver is too low for the pin to go thru lol .i tried the trigger on the other 2 dsarms lowers and same thing, I tried it on my colts and every other lower I have and it fit easily. I ended up putting a alg act in the dsarms lower and switched out the safety, detent and spring for a dpms that I had and the hammer still drops when the safety is barely disengaged off safe...is this normal for m16 cut lowers? I noticed on the dsa that there’s more space from the back of the trigger piece that sits below the groove in the safety
I have a trigger and some replacement parts from their AR Stoner line. I think their parts are not spectacular but pretty inline with quality for the price. Potterfield is a decent gunsmith and Midway has good customer service. I also dig Brownells and their 'Smyth Buster' series.
Hello Chad Could I use a cassette tape demagnetizer it's pointed like a wand to demagnetize my trigger group inside my lower?? Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge and keep up the good work👍🇺🇸💯
What is your profession opinion of the Anderson upper and lower 🤔. I used one in one of my builds and was very pleased with them. Fit and finish was nice with the 20 year old lower Delton parts set I found in some of my tucked away parts, lol
It would have been nice to see a true mil spec selector in the safety hole, it could be the milspec hole gauge is on the large size (if the safety is milspec), it could be the safety in the lower is milspec... Regardless, it's good to see the Anderson lower pass the test.
One of my Anderson lowers was initially super tight to attach the upper to, but seems to have broken in a bit. Even now the carrier appears to rub on the top of the buffer tube inside. Haven't noticed any serious issues with this yet, and it is a pistol made with all cheap parts. Is there anything I should look to do to it or have checked up? It's already run fine with 200 rounds or so.
I got 3 Anderson lowers a few years ago built my 300BLKOUT one for my son and this year one for my daughter, no complaints at all they work great. I built them using kits from Daytona Tactical, the uppers are a little sloppy mating to the lowers so I had to use those rubber bumpers. Otherwise they work good.
Question about the mag release: What would you do to address one that binds on the way out if you push at a slight angle? Functions perfectly pushing straight.
I’ve had this issue on mine, and I can’t say as this is the correct solution, but I had one lower (of many) that did this for no apparent reason. I took my dremel with my polishing stone, and I created a very slight chamfer on the inside of edge of the mag catch. Mostly around the corner that the shank comes out of. That allowed it to run smoothly. Just double check first that your mag button and catch bolt are flush. Possibly go a half turn past flush to help Shorten the throw of that system. Im not an expert, but I watch SOTAR and I’ve assembled my fair share of rifles over the last couple years.
I have a clone complete URG-I upper with the DD m12 gas block.It isn't pinned just dimpled,screwed and marked with paint.Would it be worth it to pin it also?
hey SOAR what are your thoughts on forged vs billet lowers for average shooters. honestly i dont think unless your job requires you to carry one, the forged vs Billet is not a huge argument. we should all keep in mind with these type of discussions most of the AR15's in America sit in safes or closets and it makes zero difference.
I have 2 andersons. One is good dont know the specs but i have had no issues. The other i know for sure the buffer retaining pin hole is out of spec. That one will become BRN 180 host
