Burned hands.....

jtischauser · Aug 6, 2014

Burk Cornelius said:
I have some. What are we doing with it? Drawings? Sketch? Show me

Bending it around the barrel and up the side of the vent rib.

45recoil · Aug 7, 2014

And its going to be held by the handguard...

Burk Cornelius · Aug 7, 2014

Im on it

Where is the "s" shape? Thats where I can't figuroe out what your talking about

45recoil · Aug 7, 2014

Quick sketch while eating breakfast

Burk Cornelius · Aug 7, 2014

Nice Jared, thanks. I can't tell from the sketch but I think I will make it cover both sides of the barrel and extend a little further back towards the receiver.

If this works we will have to come up with a name for it:

barrel condom
monkey ~~hand~~ paw
death shield
burn guard

jtischauser · Aug 7, 2014

Jared Carpenter said:
Quick sketch while eating breakfast

That's pretty much what I was thinking. I don't know that you need to go under the hand guard but that might be better. Although It might not fit. I'm also curious to see if having kydex along side the vent rib is visually obtrusive.

Burk Cornelius · Aug 7, 2014

Jesse Tischauser said:
I'm also curious to see if having kydex along side the vent rib is visually obtrusive.

When I heat it up and form it to the rib I should be able to get it to lay pretty flat.

If it won't fit under the handguard, could we affix it to the barrel with double sided tape?

Plus, I wasn't going to form it quite so "fancy" I was just going to make the prototype square and go from there

jtischauser · Aug 7, 2014

Burk Cornelius said:
When I heat it up and form it to the rib I should be able to get it to lay pretty flat.

If it won't fit under the handguard, could we affix it to the barrel with double sided tape?

Plus, I wasn't going to form it quite so "fancy" I was just going to make the prototype square and go from there

Double sided tape was my thoughts that way it has another layer of insulation and the kydex should be off the vent rib a little too.

Burk Cornelius · Aug 7, 2014

Or the tactical version with vent holes in it!

45recoil · Aug 7, 2014

You could i suppose melt the kydex into the gaps of the rib or shave off a bit of material from the handguard to fit

Burk Cornelius · Aug 7, 2014

I am going to play with a couple ideas. One might be to press some detents into the kydex when its hot and see if it will "snap" onto the vent rib, thus holding it in place. That idea might not work, but I'll try it anyway.

Like Jesse, I wonder if having kydex (albeit thin) over the rib will interfere with your sight line down the rib

jtischauser · Aug 7, 2014

Burk Cornelius said:
I am going to play with a couple ideas. One might be to press some detents into the kydex when its hot and see if it will "snap" onto the vent rib, thus holding it in place. That idea might not work, but I'll try it anyway.

Like Jesse, I wonder if having kydex (albeit thin) over the rib will interfere with your sight line down the rib

Over the rib wouldn't work. Along the dude where to burn your hand might if it isn't intrusive to your sight picture. I'm thinking the 1/16" offset that the double side tape cause might help.

I like your idea of getting a shape that would just snap on the barrel. It could be used on either side for lefties or righties.

Burk Cornelius · Aug 7, 2014

I want it on BOTH sides of the barrel

Matt1911 · Aug 7, 2014

Shape it how you want it, then cut a slit in the sides of it and run a strip of velcro around the handguard through the kydex and under the rib along with double sided tape.

Tech · Aug 7, 2014

If the kydex was thin enough and there was room between the barrel and for end you could make it "U" shaped around the bottom of the barrel and up the sides of the rib. Then it would snap in place. I'm thinking there won't be enough room though. I would have to take a gun apart and look.

Travis Colford · Aug 7, 2014

Matt Rigsby said:
Shape it how you want it, then cut a slit in the sides of it and run a strip of velcro around the handguard through the kydex and under the rib along with double sided tape.

I think this would be the best idea or if you could have kydex tabs that would snap under into the vent rib and just cut it flat to the rib. The velcro would make it easy enough to install and take off for cleaning and disassemble in my mind.

Couldn't you just velcro it into the hand guard and live it so its loose off the barrel and when you flip to load it would flex in to touch the barrel instead of your hand.

As for names call it the crap guard.