Installing FH on CETME

[Richard Simmons]

I've got an early CAI CETME and was thinking about swapping the muzzlebrake for a flash hider. What would it take to accomplish this? TIA

[Partisan1983]

If I remember correctly, they were just blind pinned on.

Just grind away a little bit on the MB and the pin will reveal itself.....the problem is, I cannot remember if it is in the 12 o'clock position, or the 6 o'clock....


ELC would remember

[Richard Simmons]

Thank you. Think I'll round up a FH and give it a try.

[El Laton Caliente]

Normally at 6 o'clock about 1/4" from the rear of the MB...

Grind to locate.
Grind around it to get pliers on it.
Pull out pin.
Unscrew MB.
Install FH...

CAI welded a few MB's so check first...

If you don't need parts count I have a couple dozen original FH's...

[Partisan1983]

Thank you ELC....I have been searching for you on the boards for an hour now, trying to get you attention to help out Simmons.....and I just now realized why I couldn't find ya..



I cannot spell Caliente to save my life :11doh:

[Gunsmoke]

Spell it how the hell do you pro-noun-ce-it. I think that means Little bull with big balls in Spanish.

[El Laton Caliente]

It means "hot", Laton is brass so "Mr. Hot Brass"...

It was a CETME thing... some of my brass went down a guy's shirt at the range in Boulder, NV.... The first CAI CETME I bought would throw brass to 50 feet or so... We would joke that that was how the Spanish protected their right flank.