I was looking at my gun in some detail when I cleaned it last night. I noticed that it appears to have ding marks or indentations at the front around where the gas piston pipe is fitted to the gas block. This appears to be from the slide slamming forward. The slide is a massive part and there is no forgiveness when it homes a round in the chamber. I have no visible wear or marks whatsoever at the back of the slide where the recoil spring slots into the cross bar so I think I'm fine there regarding a buffer block. It won't fit anyway because of the ATI stock.
I would need a thin, fairly hard material of some kind that could take the punishment of the slide hitting it to stop further damage of this. The slide itself looks fine. I should have taken a photo but didn't think of it at the time. The damage is not so bad that it needs to be fixed at this point but if I let this continue it will likely eventually crack the gas block.
I was thinking of using inner tube patch material like for a bycycle or if someone has a better material I would appreciate knowing what it is.
I would need a thin, fairly hard material of some kind that could take the punishment of the slide hitting it to stop further damage of this. The slide itself looks fine. I should have taken a photo but didn't think of it at the time. The damage is not so bad that it needs to be fixed at this point but if I let this continue it will likely eventually crack the gas block.
I was thinking of using inner tube patch material like for a bycycle or if someone has a better material I would appreciate knowing what it is.