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Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by MontyShooter » 28 Jan 2018, 6:45 pm

Hey all,

I received a 10round long pgmag in 223 (the one with the window), and it's baseplate is glued/welded to the mag.

Is this an Aus rule? Seems to be a few posts around the world on this in some jurisdictions.

Given I bought some ranger plates as well, I'm not overly impressed. Looks terrible too.

Anyone know if this is the lay of the land here?
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by TheDude » 28 Jan 2018, 8:22 pm

I’d say they are glued to stop people removing whatever limiter is in them to make them >10 round mags.
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by MontyShooter » 28 Jan 2018, 8:30 pm

I don't think there's any doubt about that at all.
Still strange to offer replaceable base plates whilst selling the mag with a glued base plate...
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by TheDude » 28 Jan 2018, 9:52 pm

The standard short 10 round pmags aren’t glued. I put ranger plates on mine just this week. It’s only the ones converted from 20 and 30 rounds to 10 that will likely be glued.
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by Mr.Seacucumber » 29 Jan 2018, 6:11 am

It’s the only way they could import them and get approval from POL and Customs.
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by MontyShooter » 29 Jan 2018, 11:59 am

Cool.
Thanks.
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by Mitch@Ripley » 08 Feb 2018, 6:31 pm

would it be legal to remove them?
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Post by sungazer » 08 Feb 2018, 7:20 pm

No. However they sell them that way for the people that want to bend the rules and put a few more in. Its at your own risk of breaking the law.
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by MontyShooter » 08 Feb 2018, 10:42 pm

Personally I just wanted to run cool looking ranger plates.
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Post by Mitch@Ripley » 08 Feb 2018, 11:59 pm

just clarifying, I was asking if it would be legal to remove the glued/welded baseplate purely to put a ranger plate on and custom followers
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Post by Mr.Seacucumber » 09 Feb 2018, 7:41 am

Mitch@Ripley wrote:just clarifying, I was asking if it would be legal to remove the glued/welded baseplate purely to put a ranger plate on and custom followers


It would not be a smart idea. Probably a legal idea but not a smart one.
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by TheDude » 09 Feb 2018, 8:31 am

Also good chance you damage the mag getting the old floor plate off depending on how it’s glued
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by MontyShooter » 09 Feb 2018, 9:40 am

If I could work out how to post a pic, I will.show how butchered it looks.
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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by MontyShooter » 09 Feb 2018, 9:44 am

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Re: Magpul pgmag have glued baseplates

Post by sungazer » 09 Feb 2018, 10:50 am

Looks like they have used a soldering iron to melt the two pieces together. There would be a couple of ways to separate them and perhaps make them look a lot better. 1 file down the join until the soldering mark is gone they should separate then. 2 use a knife to cut the melted join once you know how they are meant to separate from factory clean up the join with a file, then sand paper.
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