![]() ![]() ![]() I was wondering if anyone else has had any problems, and if so, have they noticed this same trend.ĮTA: I forgot to mention, I do not think loctite is the answer. This design seems to be pretty common amongst all the various brands of mounts of all kinds. The bipod adapter actually shares a common indexing tab for both screws, placed in the middle, such that it's pulling one foot forward, while pushing the other one. This was opposed to the other two mounts, which had the indexing tabs placed to the rear of the screws, such that the tabs were "pushing" the feet forward into their little slots. Both QD sockets were designed the exact same way (one was vltor, the other BCM), where the indexing tab went to the next slot, thereby "pulling" the feet forward. I got to looking at the differences in design between the QD sockets and the mounts that had come loose, and there were immediately some obvious differences between the two categories. One of them is on an SPR that weighs ten pounds loaded, so it's supporting quite a bit of weight, and I didn't even have to torque the screws all that much to get it to stay in place. So I got to thinking, why would this happen when I have two QD sockets that have never come loose. It was sitting just as I had left it the night before. I don't have dogs or kids, so there's no possible way that it got messed with. ![]() Somehow that thing had come loose all on its own overnight. The next day I picked up the rifle and it flopped to the side. I installed it, checked to make sure everything was good, then leaned it up against the wall in my office. The first rail was an Vltor VIS, this time was with a BCM KMR Alpha. Well, a few days ago, I installed a light mount on a different rail. I reinstalled it, torqued the crap out of the screws, and wrote it off as a fluke. I had just installed it, and was sort of playing around with it and it just came loose. I wasn't even shooting the rifle at the time. A few months ago, I had a keymod bipod adapter come loose on me. ![]()
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