I differentiate my Mustangs by color (“the silver one” or “the white one”) or age (“the older one” or “the newer one”). Same with AR-15s – the spray painted one, the shiny one, etc.
This AR-15, a Spike’s midlength, I now refer to as “the burned one.” It remains serviceable, reliable, and accurate, with the only parts replacement being a new top MOE handguard – the bottom remains the same. It’s photographed here with the old handguard for…dramatic effect?
Whenever I get some free time (probably sometime in 2014), I will do a few more things to it, then clean it and do some diagnostics/examinations.
Ah, the things destroyed for research purposes. 🙂
It’s not destroyed quite yet, don’t you think? hahah
I’m impressed the gas tube was still in such good shape, other than that it performed as I had expected.
You can definately see signs of heat on that gas tube. It looks like you held a acetylene torch on it close to the point of melting.
Good job on aligning VurrwapenBlog on the gas tube. It almost looks like it is inscribed.
The pictures are awesomely taken! Very good job on that part!
I’m finding this post super interesting as a Materials Engineer (soon to be) point of view, the result of extreme heat on the polymer HG is astonishing! And we can clearly see the sand and mud interwined with the polymer fillaments, very good photo, thank you Vuurwapen! 😀
All that abuse makes it kinda look like a battlefield pickup
wondering (again) if a wallpaper version of the whole firearm in this state is possible.
I’ll work on it
Thanks, appreciate it.
I am curious that Magpul didn’t use a thermoset plastic that wouldn’t melt or burn for the handguards.
Too brittle?