Sand cut receivers

ronpaulFAL · May 10, 2012, 13:15

Anybody know when DSA started making all their receivers with sand cuts?

Have a 3 yr old sa58 and would like to upgrade to sand cut carrier. Trying to figure out whether my receiver would already be sand cut. Can't tell by visual inspection.

Sgt Rock · May 10, 2012, 15:49

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Originally Posted by ronpaulFAL

Anybody know when DSA started making all their receivers with sand cuts?

Have a 3 yr old sa58 and would like to upgrade to sand cut carrier. Trying to figure out whether my receiver would already be sand cut. Can't tell by visual inspection.

every receiver I have does from Grayslake to present day. I'd say always.

paulb2112 · May 11, 2012, 11:24

I thought the carriers where what was sand cut not the reciever itself?

**MK ULTRA** · May 11, 2012, 11:56

Send me your receiver and i'll put some sand cuts in it for you.

I'll send you back a sand cut carrier. You seem to have an infatuation with them these days.

**JAB75** · May 11, 2012, 22:04

Sand cuts are fairly useless to the average shooter and their environment.

-JAB75

**4x401** · May 11, 2012, 22:09

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Originally Posted by MK ULTRA

Send me your receiver and i'll put some sand cuts in it for you.

I'll send you back a sand cut carrier. You seem to have an infatuation with them these days.

**J. Armstrong** · May 11, 2012, 22:38

I think the sand cuts are overrated. Remember, they were originally designed to be used with lots of grease, which was supposed to "capture" the grit in the cuts and keep it from accumulating and causing stoppages. FN offered the cuts in both Commonwealth spec and in the simplified Israeli config, but there were few takers as apparently the consensus was that the cuts were a solution looking for a problem in 99% of applications.

They are cool, I guess, but I've never seen an overriding need for 'em. Maybe if I were working the sandbox I'd be more interested, but I'm not, and I ain't

Ol' Dirty doesn't seem to need 'em !!!!

May 10, 2012, 13:15	#1
ronpaulFAL Registered FALaholic #: 65535 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: somewhere Posts: 2,172	Sand cut receivers Anybody know when DSA started making all their receivers with sand cuts? Have a 3 yr old sa58 and would like to upgrade to sand cut carrier. Trying to figure out whether my receiver would already be sand cut. Can't tell by visual inspection.

May 11, 2012, 11:56	#4
MK ULTRA Curio & Relic Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 2382 Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Alabama Posts: 3,249	Send me your receiver and i'll put some sand cuts in it for you. I'll send you back a sand cut carrier. You seem to have an infatuation with them these days. __________________ O $HIT MK ULTRA.....OUT..... They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, Statesman and Inventor: 1759 Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.....

May 11, 2012, 22:04	#5
JAB75 Go ahead, make my day Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 12107 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 718	Sand cuts are fairly useless to the average shooter and their environment. -JAB75 __________________ When they kick at your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun...

May 11, 2012, 22:38	#7
J. Armstrong Minister of Amusement Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 13629 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: SE Pa Posts: 8,504	I think the sand cuts are overrated. Remember, they were originally designed to be used with lots of grease, which was supposed to "capture" the grit in the cuts and keep it from accumulating and causing stoppages. FN offered the cuts in both Commonwealth spec and in the simplified Israeli config, but there were few takers as apparently the consensus was that the cuts were a solution looking for a problem in 99% of applications. They are cool, I guess, but I've never seen an overriding need for 'em. Maybe if I were working the sandbox I'd be more interested, but I'm not, and I ain't Ol' Dirty doesn't seem to need 'em !!!! __________________ "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools" Herbert Spenser "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." Sigmund Freud

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May 11, 2012, 11:24	#3
paulb2112 Registered FALaholic #: 65687 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: FLORIDA Posts: 545	I thought the carriers where what was sand cut not the reciever itself?