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Not at all. Nothing there that I would worry about.
Nothing that you wouldn’t need to do otherwise. Supporting the trigger guard tabs has nothing to do with thread locker(note that it’s not pin locker,) but is standard procedure for removing and installing that particular roll pin.[/QUOTE]
You have nothing to worry about, it does look like the guy took it out of the box and went anal, but nothing that caused the gun any harm, and not enough for me to call it used.
Rub that paint with alcohol or spray the whole damned thing down with non-chlorinated brake cleaner, lube it back up, and drive on.
Thanks for the reassurance, its well received.
I plan to run it hard, but I just wanted to make sure everything was A-Okay before I started.
Thanks,
Dave
Mostenbocker’s lift off graffiti remover and a toothbrush and that color fill will be gone in a minute. Plus it’s not as harsh on the finish as some chemical removers.
The gun looks new to me. The first thing you’ll see when you run a mag through it to empty will be that little mark on the bolt catch. Yours doesnt have that yet…
I can understand your disappointment and questioning of the condition of your weapon but you did elect to buy the rifle sight unseen and thereby save $75. Lesson learned.
The blue material on the trigger guard roll pin may be a lubricant (now dried) to ease installation. Convention usually dictates inserting pins from right to left so your picture conforms to that. As others have said, be very careful to have the opposing trigger guard ear supported by a block. It’s easy to break one especially with a stubborn roll pin. Use the proper roll pin punch rather than a nail etc… You’ll really be bummed if you butcher the job.
I do not think you have anything to worry about
Got my LMT Defender a year ago…it was NIB…and it was dirty when I opened it up. Looked like your pics. Im anal about my weapons too, so I dont think youve got anything to worry about. Mine has been a fine rifle. I just had to tame down the recoil/cycling a bit with a new buffer/spring combo.
Non Chlorinated brake cleaner may work on the paint.
Judging from the marks on the face of the hammer, and the lack of wear on the BCG rails and cam pin…
That’s a new gun that has been test fired.
No worries.
Test fired or slightly used.
The roll pin looks like bluing salts to me. This will occur when a metal is blued, and not cleaned off. Maybe the guy installed a magpul trigger guard, decided to sell it, and tried to put the old roll pin back in, buggered it up, and put some cold blue on it. Thats what it looks like to me. Id put a drop of oil in it, scrub with a GI brush, and put another drop of oil to soak in. Salts from bluing will cause rust over time. Might be salt creep from LMT, too, but since Ive owned at least 5 LMT lowers I doubt it was from them. Seen dozens more of their products in person, fellow shooters, ect.
To the OP…this is why I rarely if ever buy 3rd party. I sell a lot of stuff I get tired of or whatever, and try to be honest as I can with description and.or pics. I would NEVER buy a lower other than from a dealer. You dont know what parts people took out and replaced, ect. I can get a Colt lower, take the FCG out, swap it with something else, and most people would be none the wiser. Its hell just buying Colt pistol grips and half the time even on this site I get cheap knock offs.
Most don’t know that Colt’s pistol grips are fatter than everyone else’s. I prefer them.
Try Pine-Sol to remove the unwanted paint. Let it soak overnight
BC Aluminum Black leaves salts like this too if not cleaned off with water. Wash it off with hot water then blast it with WD40 to displace the water and take a look at it again. Belmont probably has it right, the previous owner dinged the lower near the roll pin knocking it back in and used Aluminum Black or some other bluing agent to color it again.
Support the ears against something sturdy, I use a pine 2x4 with a 1/8" hole drilled into it to support my lowers when I have to tap that pin out. Gently tap it to see if you can get it to move. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why anybody would loctite that pin, I doubt it is loctite.
This and would also add a wooden tooth pick and a old tooth brush.
Also it looks to me as if its new. LMT comes dirty from the factory from the test firing that they do.
It needs to be DX’d… send it to me 