Details The BLACKOUT Flash Hider Installation Tool from Advanced Armament Corp. Enables armorers to quickly and easily install and remove a three-prong BLACKOUT flash.

Remove the set screw from the front side of the sight base with an allen wrench. Use your gas cylinder wrench to hold the rifle steady. Loosen the castle nut which holds the FS on the barrel with the castle nut wrench, unscrew the rest of the way by hand as you pull out on the FS. Installation is the reverse order but make sure that the castle nut has a notch indexed to the set screw hole when you torque it down. The set screw will not lock it in otherwise. For a non-reamed (non-National Match) FS you need to index the barrel bore with the FS bore.

If you don't, and it is not perfectly aligned a bullet could strike it sharply enough to blow it off the barrel. At the very least it will affect accuracy. Hope this helps. FWIW.You do not absolutely need the all of the tools.

Do you think the GI in the field had all of those tools in his basic kit? Though IMHO.it's 'better' to have them. Especially since you're gonna be putting on a NM Flash Suppressor and you want to avoid possible 'damage' to it. Aloha, Mark If you want to do it right, you do need the wrench/pliers - alignment gauge is optional but nice. As far as GIs in the field, no they would not have had those tools, but their support (armorers) would have.

This M14 Flash Hider Removal Tool can help you loosen and tighten the flash suppressor castle nut. Klipsch Serial Number Decoder. The tool is made of hard Steel. Removal of the castle nut is. The BLACKOUT™ Flash Hider Installation Tool from Advanced Armament Corp. Enables armorers to quickly and easily install and remove a three-prong BLACKOUT™ flash hider or BRAKEOUT™. The tool uses a 3/8 drive. Amazon.com: AAC Blackout Flash Hider Tool LAST ONE: Sports & Outdoors.

FWIW.You do not absolutely need the all of the tools. Do you think the GI in the field had all of those tools in his basic kit? Though IMHO.it's 'better' to have them. Especially since you're gonna be putting on a NM Flash Suppressor and you want to avoid possible 'damage' to it. Aloha, Mark The GI does not need many tools.

It's different for a civilian like me though. I have to be my own armorer, the rifles are my property, and they need to last for many years. I'm not sure the flash suppressor alignment tool is necessary if you're putting on a National Match flash suppressor. I could be wrong but I bet you won't run into any problems.