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Oh folks this is Yamil Sued for Gun Stock Reviews and I'm here we're going to
install the Springer Precision compensator onto the Ruger PC carbine
yeah I know I got something missing here but I don't need the whole carbine to do
this so I just decided to use the hand guard part of it there are several ways of
installing a compensator on your carbine I just I tried using a crush washer on
it it worked okay but it has some pros and cons the crush washer is great
because it's somewhat permanent but the problem is that being so thick it won't
allow you to use take advantage of all the threads on your compensator so I
decided to go with using shims instead of the crush washer and by using shims
these are they come in different sizes and I use a little bit of 271 Loctite
that comes with a compensator and it's really simple the only con is you can't
use it for like 24 hours until the Loctite sets there's all sorts of other
different kinds of adhesives for thread lockers and all that it comes with red
loctite I'm just going to use that the only con on this is if we when you want
to remove this it's not gonna be easy to remove you might have to use some heat
or torch to remove it to break down the locktite that's about the only negative
I see in here one
thing that happens is that by using shims is harder to clock
your compensator in the right direction so you're gonna have to do a lot of
trial and error I pick the shims up from a kit that I you can buy them at
Brownells you just call go to a catalog and look for compensator shims or flash
hider shims and they are available there and they come in different sizes so you
have to go on and off on and off a bunch of times it took me a little bit but
let's go ahead and start doing it here first thing you do is remove the thread
protector okay once your thread protector is off
you're going to remove
the gasket
okay and then we're going to clean the
threads with a little bit of alcohol I use alcohol swabs that you can get at
any pharmacy in order to clean the threads you got to make sure that all
most of the oil if not all the oil is removed from the threads
see there's a lot of carbon from me shooting it previously on it so we're removing all
the carbon and oil from the threads so that Loctite actually works great I'm
going to show you how the shims work first thing we're gonna put the
compensator by itself see how it goes
screw until it stops and you see it's not clocked the compensator is supposed
to be like this and not like that so we're going to remove it
and put one shim on and this is the medium shim
Ok
well it's getting there not enough so when he's a little
more I went ahead and I tried another medium shim and it didn't work so I
tried the real skinny shim which is about the other half
half of the original one
and lo and behold were there it's perfect so now that we found
the correct shim I'm gonna go ahead and clean this again one more time and I am
going to clean the inside of the compensator too just to make sure that
everything is pretty much clean next step we're going to use some Loctite one
trick about Loctite you do not need a bunch of it to make it work you break it
open and you one or two drops of red loctite is just enough to make it work
see that's it you don't need to go crazy with it because then if you ever want to
remove it you're gonna have a real hard time removing it so with both parts
clean and new Loctite on
we're gonna go ahead and screw it on and pretty much
you're gonna keep it as straight as possible and there you have it we're
going to let it dry and in a couple of days I'll take it to the range and shoot
it