Saturday, October 23, 2010

AR15 9mm conversion bolt repair - Brushing technique for AR-15 9mm Conversion bolt

A client came to me with a 9mm conversion upper with magwell adapter for STEN mags, complete upper and conversion bolt. 





The 9mm conversion bolt uses a return spring combined with a modified AR15 firing pin.

But the 9mm conversion bolt had some spiderweb cracks on the boltface due to  failure of the return spring.

I was able to fabricate a brand new firing pin and spring to replace the worn parts.

And instead of needing a brand new bolt of at least $350.00, I was able to brush / brushing the firing pin channel:


  • BRUSHING invloves: 

    • drilling out Firing Pin Channel
    • threading in a Hardened Steel Rod
    • re-drilling Firing Pin Channel into the Threaded Steel Rod



    A final modification was ramped / ramping the bottom of the 9mm AR Bolt to allow use of Standard AR15 Lower Parts ..... especially the stock AR15 hammer

    1 comment:

    1. BTW the client came back to me with other work and mentioned that after over 1 year since the repair, it functions at 100% with no FTE or FTF.

      The client states it's like firing a L-O-U-D Ruger 10/22 :-)

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