AR 10 hammer

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12 years 6 months ago #11776 by poliziotto
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I hope that I'm posting in the right thread. I'm a newbie on putting together an AR 10 and I'm having a probem. I just purchased an Armalite AR 10 A2 upper with no forward assist. I now know that it is an older style upper. The issue I am having is that I purchased lower group assembly parts kit and the hammer is too wide for the BCG. I understand that at one time Armalite used a narrower hammer. Is a narrow hammer available or will I have to buy a whole new BCG? The person I talked to at Armalite didn't know if the hammer they now carry would fit my BCG. Any guidance would be appreciated.

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12 years 5 months ago #11825 by jtallen83
Replied by jtallen83 on topic Re: AR 10 hammer
I've been curios to hear what the pros say, surprised no one replied yet, seems like I read something about it once but couldn't find it. Did you try an email to Armalite? I've had good results that way when I wasn't in a hurry, got me a call with somebody that could help anyway. I've found them to be very customer service oriented in my dealings.

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12 years 5 months ago #11826 by poliziotto
Replied by poliziotto on topic Re: AR 10 hammer
I finally did hear from Armalite in a forum response. Turns out that they have a hammer that they say will fit my BCG. It looks like I bought one of their older lower parts kits from a vendor, which had the wide hammer. According to Tim at Armalite, they have since gone to a narrower hammer to accomodate both the wide slot and narrow slot BCGs. Funny, I was just about to drop a couple of hundred dollars on a Jard trigger, which has a narrow hammer, and then the response came through. $30 plus shipping for the Armalite hammer. Hope it works. Thanks for the inquiry. Take care.

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