P80?

Polymer 80 Glock...

keep up with me boy

Ah. I thought it might mean polymer, but there are polymer lowers for ARs too.

I'm sure I can do it, but I'll have to borrow my uncle's drill press and router, and I know how easy it is to misalign one drill bit and fuck the whole thing up.

Have you done one before?

I did a P80 Glock in July

ultimately came to a point where I realized that I could not fit the locking block pins in both at a time because of fitment issues (asked my local smith and he confirmed)

so its probably fucked and will require a new frame, I'll ask P80 if they will send a new one

Ah. I'm actually looking at picking up an 80% from anderson, but they have a note saying "Please note that the rear lug pocket for the upper must be finished in the machining process in order to seat an upper" on the product page. Other manufacturers mention whether or not they've finished it already too. Any idea what it means?

not a clue, avoid anderson

How bad could their 80%s be? Don't they do OEM for tons of other manufacturers?

spend the extra $15 and get an Aero lower.

Afaik andersons trash rep comes from poor CC

Its a gamble if you buy

I'm not seeing any 80%s on Aero's site.

I assembled an Anderson lower where the safety detent was drilled a few degrees from perpendicular

how tf do you even do that...

higher end companies will sometimes do individual inspections rather than batch testing

so yes, some lowers come from the same place

The anodizing on all of them is thin and shitty looking compared to lowers just a few doses more

they're just not all the same

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Its like buyin surp bodyarmor

Might get a good one might get a bad one but you wont know till it fails

I was going to get an uncoated 80% anyways. Might get it coated later. Or try coating or anodizing myself.

I’ve only built two for poorfag friends but the one is the only one that had a truly significant issue

Diy anodizing seems hard

But 50/50 isn’t a good record

Gotcha. So who makes good milspec 80%s?

It can be but I think it would be worth it.

Aero makes a solid $50 lower

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they have a more gucci one for $75 or so but

I don't see it on their site.

hey

Buy a 50$ aero or go to your lgs and spend 50 on an anderson

I quit my pistol build and am trading off my anderson lower

Tradin it for some cash and a 75rd clamshell for my ak

Yeah, I don’t think there’s much significant difference between an Aero and more expensive lowers until you start getting into LMT and higher end stuff

If you want to do a low shelf 80%, you just have to cut the pocket deeper in the rear right? Do the jigs and the specific 80% you buy have any effect on that?