Call me a bit too trigger happy, but I found the lamination front ends of the lower handguard on my PSA spiker getting looser after I was done with it at the range. I don’t know if this is common, but I asked PSA if the warrenty covers this. Since they said no, i’ve been considering to have the lamination removed since I think it makes the furniture get hotter and kinda think it would look better without it since the lamination gives it a plastic like look. What do you folks think?
I dont understand how heat would make that happen. Seems the layers closest to the barrel and gas tube would be affected first.
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Oddly enough it did. Baffling.
Can you post a pic of the inside?
Unfortunately I’m in Texas where my home state is in Florida. I didn’t think that i’d need to photograph the inside of the handguard. I’ll update you when I get back.
That does not look like a de-laminiation, it is a blister of the top coat used on the wood (polyurethane or a film applied by the manufacturer). Blistering is usually caused by moisture in the wood or high relative humidity when the part was coated. I would call that a defect in materials or workmanship.
Submit a claim if you did not buy a blem.
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I ought it in new condition. Never thought about it like that
Water sitting on the surface will lift a poly finish also.
I don’t recall getting it wet.
Not on 7.62, but my rifle is absolutely smoking hot after 250 or so rounds. I wouldn’t have ever worried about the finish. If I had to guess, the wood might have had some moisture in it.
Either strip it, and refinish, or, just buy some Norinco stuff.
I would use that defect as an excuse to upgrade to new furniture! Lots of choices out there and takes a whole 15 minutes to totally change the look more to your liking.