Green Mountain's Recall Notice.

[walley]

I was looking around on GM's home page and and saw this recall notice.
It reads as follows: Product Recall Notice Green Mountain needs to do a precautionary recall on some of our Thompson Center drop-in barrels. If you have a barrel in the following Serial Number range 026220-027303 please contact Kerry Smith at (603) 447-1095 x18 to make arrangements to have your barrel returned for inspection. Thank you and we are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

I knew some of you owned their products, so just in case you weren't aware of their notice thought I'd post this.

 

[roundball]

I was looking around on GM's home page and and saw this recall notice.
It reads as follows: Product Recall Notice Green Mountain needs to do a precautionary recall on some of our Thompson Center drop-in barrels. If you have a barrel in the following Serial Number range 026220-027303 please contact Kerry Smith at (603) 447-1095 x18 to make arrangements to have your barrel returned for inspection. Thank you and we are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

I knew some of you owned their products, so just in case you weren't aware of their notice thought I'd post this.

I agree it's always good to bring these up occasionally...I had a .58cal that they had to replace the breechplug on...the recall is actually a couple years old but everybody doesn't see stuff at the same time...good move

 

[bub524]

I thought the recall was about the helicoil business. I sent a barrel back because of that.

 

[roundball]

I thought the recall was about the helicoil business. I sent a barrel back because of that.

No, unfortunately they're trying to sell them with helicoils...it's actually a fix for all the defective breechplugs that were drilled & tapped incorrectly, which is what the recall was all about.

As a result of the recall, they used up all their good new replacement breechplugs that were drilled & tapped correctly.

So then they resorted to "repairing" the recalled barrels, and remaining barrels in inventory, using the helicoil approach.

 

[ss1]

GM told me that they were no longer using heilcoil's. Also implied no heilcoil's outside of recall range. My personal opion is that the heilcoil was used to coverup hole drilled wrong angle/location.

 

[roundball]

GM told me that they were no longer using heilcoil's. Also implied no heilcoil's outside of recall range. My personal opion is that the heilcoil was used to coverup hole drilled wrong angle/location.

The recall was due to a new automated drilling / tapping operation called "roll thread tapping" instead of "cut thread tapping".

After the fact they discovered that the threads were not quite high enough and had rounded tops instead of sharp edges...worried about a vent or nipple blowout. (or may have actually had it happen)

 

[Mad Professor]

GM told me that they were no longer using heilcoil's. Also implied no heilcoil's outside of recall range. My personal opion is that the heilcoil was used to coverup hole drilled wrong angle/location.

yep!!! Should have taken them back UNCONDITIONALY, but apparently "pencil pushers" at Knight ML ( Who own GM ) said NO. (maybe they'll buy a Knght! not me.....)

I really hope a nipple does not put someones eye out, but then again such a lawsuit could put GM back in the hands of REAL ML people, and maybe Knight of bussiness....naaa they don't care asn long as they make money!