I am 100% unsatisfied with the safety on my SCR rendition. It works reliably, but I don't like how it's layed out. When I flipped the selector lever to the other side of the receiver, I had to move the the detent and spring too. To be honest, I just kind of made it up as I went along, and it shows. I'm still using the original detent just with the base ground off. That bit is OK, the real problem is the spring. I made the detent pocket as shallow as I thought I could get away with so that I had more solid plastic in the receiver, but that left me with a spring that could only be 3-4 coils long. Additionally, to remove the selector, you have to use a punch to override the detent and knock it out. I don't see this as a good long term solution. I also had to notch the back side of the safety lever for the head of the screw for the Rise Armament anti-walk pins I'm using, but that's no big deal. Here's what I've got now:
For Receiver Mk3 I've decided to add a channel for a longer detent spring. It goes from behind the detent into the hole for the trigger pin. This way I can use a longer spring, and can take some tension off the spring by pulling the trigger pin when I want to take it apart. It's will be a little fiddly to assemble, but a lot of the springs on ARs are like that. While I was revising things, I also thickened up the trigger guard a bit to make it a little tougher.
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