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How badly do you need one/some broken?
Once we were confident that the barrel and/or other main components would need to be replaced before the Gas Control was rebuilt we were satisfied with the durability of the system. In the absence of destruction, establishing that the Gas Controls were NOT the weak link was the green-light criteria. Gas Controls do not add difficulty or complexity to the maintenance process and do not reduce the service life of the system (quite the contrary). That's what we were looking for.