Maintenance and Troubleshooting Archives - Redacted Arms

Maintenance and Troubleshooting

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What Causes Dead Trigger in a Super Safety Build

The rifle fires once, but the next trigger press does nothing. When that happens, a dead trigger super safety problem…

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Maintaining Your TX22 ART

The ART adds precision contact geometry to the TX22's fire control group. Keeping that geometry consistent is what TX22 ART…

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Maintaining Your AK Super Safety

Owners coming from AR-15 super safety builds often assume the maintenance picture is identical. It isn't. The gas-piston system changes…

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Maintaining Your MP5 Super Safety

MP5 super safety builds have more moving parts than any other platform the super safety runs on — the slip…

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Maintaining Your AR-15 Super Safety

The general how to clean and maintain a super safety principles apply across every platform — but the AR-15's direct…

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How to Clean and Maintain a Super Safety System

You rarely see a super safety start acting up all at once. First, you may notice a rough reset, soft…

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Why Your Super Safety Is Not Resetting and What Causes It

A super safety that fires once and won't reset for the next shot is a specific kind of frustrating —…

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Common MP5 Slip Trip Problems and What Causes Them

Everything works in dry-fire. Then live fire reveals the real picture. The build fails to reset, the bolt slows under…

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What Causes Light Primer Strikes in MP5 Super Safety Builds

The build looks right. Dry-fire checks out. Then live rounds fail to ignite, or only the first one fires, and…

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Which Small Firearm Parts Affect Accuracy the Most?

When groups start opening up, most shooters check their optics, swap ammunition, or blame the barrel. Rarely do they look…

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