JAB Arms review of Modulus Arms Extreme Router Jig

oh this is James Baker with jab arms today we're going to go over a review on the modulus arms extreme router for 80% lowers both air 10 and ar-15 and even the pistol calibers and it does all of those that's one of the new ones that modular arms come out with I've never used a router jig and so this is going to be kind of a new experience I'm going to take you along with me and we're going to go through everything that we have we'll do a opening of what we got in the box and how it came then we'll go into putting it assembly and actually using the jig I'm gonna probably skip over a few things in the video here and there but give me a cap an overview of what the what's in this box out works out and that see a finished product what what's that come on you're done so hope you enjoy the video and go over and like our Facebook page lawyer your thanks [Music] here's our box they ship you have a postal service flat rate so there's a lot of stuff in this box I did get lower with it this box would be pretty well packed it's at the lowers I got the drill kits I got every piece that they pretty much [Music] [Music] try speed bit increases equality has a decent price on the most notable things is this I don't know call that a gliding edge on the magazine well kind of how it integrates into that trigger career well it's pretty neat I kind of like that thought I try them out and see how they turn out in the end they are a pretty hefty piece so so far so good [Music] this is a plate for the router I have a large router so you had to buy the extra base worth so I can use my large router they recommend generally doing small routers but they do provide parts for them and this is the rest router jig Xtreme says right there nice compact boxes got a module scarf sticker right on top the destruction book definitely have to go through that's before we start and Lots pieces hold it together side plates look at how that TV side plates are together monsters they enforced points to drill through Marc left side marked right side [Music] it's a buffer to block but also acts as a vacuum cleaner to be able to clean up your chips isn't working I don't know that I'll ever be able to get back into this box maybe it's a good thing I'm taking that video of it so I can see how it comes apart got a bearing in here so one of the neat things about this kit is the way they've got it set up is it the router actually never touches the edges of your kit so you're never gonna wear it out you're never really over extend the edges and burn it up but it's gonna yeah Barry right there this is the other plate I can see the outline me it's gonna follow this is on their securities here the stop is going too far out so you'll be following the edges there that's depths settings right here so you can go with your your bits so you don't have to do any measurements it's pretty well foolproof and it's got a nice handle day's finish on it looks pretty good then up right through so after you read a little bit on the instruction manual we will start our assembly okay now we're gonna go over the parts that came with the key of our top plate right here can't rather put the top plate right there nice anodized red we have our side plates I force left side right side let's have the reinforced two holes to drill and then we have the router adapter plate right here now we have the router adapter screws that's these four right here [Music] and then the router guide pins we have a small medium and large that you can see those small right there small medium and large then the next piece right here is the router at mount block and then that comes with a router mount block screws a large one on a small buffer screw support right here that's a buffer speed support and the buffer screw this is the buffer skirt and the drill block it's this piece right here and the takedown pins you have a large pin for AR 1008 and a smaller pin for the air 15 and air 9sy pistol calibers and the takedown pin block that's right here again larger pin smaller pin and holes for the different sized air components and jig screws we have 14 of those that's this big stretch of right here and then an allen wrench is also included to tighten up some of the screws okay now we're going to start the assembly assembly starts with the top plate and then we're gonna be using the top plate and the takedown pin block this one right here that was and we're gonna screw that onto the end of this plate you want to note that this the larger pin hole this one right here for the ar-10 is gonna go on the outside it's gonna stick out past that edge there we're just gonna stick into our screws that into that plate and let it stick out keeping these loose wafted just a little bit later make sure everything fits before we tighten them down you can set that aside the next thing is we're gonna take the buffer screw support and the lower receiver [Music] our receiver we're gonna align those just like you would your buffer tube d-block there line that up like that and again we're going to loosely thread in our buffers true I'll out a little bit room so that we can adjust things before we tighten that up okay so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to align the lower receiver takedown pin holes with the takedown pin holes and slide the lower receiver into the jig so we're going to line these here we can slightly hand in there [Music] it might be helpful to reset this pin your allen wrench or screwdriver something like that it's pretty tight expect that [Music] get this thing started [Music] there we go huh it's that pin collapsed wasn't able to get it to go down now it's collapsed and won't come back out to hold it not sure what the deal is with that I can't see this pin has a little detent right there that supposed to hold it in I was having a hard time getting it to collapse and now that I get to collapse so that I can get in there it will not come back up so I don't want to get a defect pin there my trick clean that up a little later okay so now we can line that up it's nice and tight there you go do that now a pin should be holding this but that detent and it is not because it collapsed for some reason so I have to be a little careful with that then we slide this into the Assemblies just like this okay now we're going to use two more of the jig screws [Music] tighten up the Buster screw support to the jig now if you're using an ar-10 you're going to be outside and using these holes out here but for overusing an ar-15 we're going to be using these two small screws here be pretty obvious once you get in there it's only going to fit in one of the other one of the tools you're going to need is a screwdriver philips screwdriver that tightening screws up [Music] our next step is going to be to put these blocks on so as it faces this way left side will you put the camera left side so I have that buffer screwed toward you and then the letters of these will be on the outside that's the right side left side and then we will again use these it screws to tighten down all eight excuse for for each side [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Stephanie screws down nice and tight next we will attach the drill block to the top plate using two more of those big screws which should be our last [Music] Shamir last excuse [Music] [Music] [Music] you know the instructions didn't say this but these last two screws that we left loose seems about a good time to be tightening those back up so we'll tighten those up now [Music] and we will tighten up the buffer screw my past mystery driver the holes on the buffer spear and rotating clockwise says do not use excessive force I'll just make sure it's nice and tight and then periodically tighten this between the milling process that's going to become loose over time the vibrations of the milling okay and the instructions say put this in a metal but we're gonna set up the router before we get this into a vise to strengthen milling process so that's the basic setup of the assembly there oh those are kinda fill out again because that pin has collapsed so I'm not sure what what caused that to happen might be getting a pin for that at some point so we'll set that aside and we will work on the router side you're gonna be following along in the manual we're gonna use installation method three because I have a larger router and I buy a special adapter plate which you can buy from from modulus they cost about $30 and they match it up with the plate for your specific router I just happen to be using a craftsman professional I don't believe my model number match theirs exactly but I was able to figure out which one it was and purchase that so first off for a pan you start with taking this base plate office usually a plastic plate - along with two screws [Music] Sugar's remove and we remove the plate and we will not be putting this back on doing these personnel actually you know they place it with this one dreaded upstairs in the same holes looks like mine are gonna be a little different there you go they're the same holes and we we use the same screws that we took the plastic plate off to mount this plate you notice they give you multiple options here I'm using the outside screw holes but there's another set of girls inside that for smaller outer [Music] now if you had a small router you can kind of pick up where we're at right now you will just stream down this adapter plate to either your router base or the adapter plate that we had there and you will be using either three or four screws I will be using three these are 10 millimeter screws now because I'm using the adapter plate the screws actually fit if you are not using the adapter plate and you're going right into your router check to make sure that these screws that are provided they're ten millimeter test them make sure they fit before you cross thread your router base plate that would kind of make for a bad day [Music] okay now before you tighten all these fuse completely down we're going to want to install our speed mill and its holder you'll notice I messed up I needed to put this speed mill in before I tightened all those pieces down because obviously it does not fit through that hole so I'm gonna have to take this back off put the speed mill on and then mount the plate back on there and when you buy these you do buy them for the specific router obviously they fit in I had already taken this off but if you have one of these on the router obviously gonna have to remove that there's another size here those will be removed and not used during this process it completely replaces it with his feet bit provided by modulus ours now one thing to note is modulus arms because recommend that you keep this cap on will you're ready to start milling one for the safety of yourself cutting it because it's very very very sharp the other reason is for the safety of the it doesn't get damaged while working on some of us other stuff now we're going to place those screws that I just had to take out and I don't know if you notices this is a very tight fit that's where the Burien is is in there and so it's barren it's gonna be nice and tight around here in Mill and before you tighten up all these screws at least on the plate here in the top plate before you tighten those up you want to make sure that this is nice and centered I'll have that'll offset taken the first plate down first since I have an adapter plate that needs to be tightened down and then again double check to make sure you're not off center before petting down these final three screws there's no garden to the top okay now that our router is set up and our jig is set up we were ready to put this into a vise and start prepping it for the actual mill process itself okay now we're going to go over some of the other required tools that we have first of all is the modulus arm speed mill end mill again we've already inflicted that got it installed handheld router right there is mine a handheld drill or drill press probably using a drill press and I probably will be videoing that since I don't have a good setup to show that but you can just also use just a hand drill pass module any of those three inch or larger vise which we have right over here better picture that place three days drill bit a 2164 strobe it's 5/32 for a bit Phillips screwdriver and an allen wrench 764 which is included these drill bits are extra you can buy the kit from modulus arms I bought them and they are very good quality there's some very good bits so I need to save a little bit money if you wanted to get different bits but they're not going to last as good as these not be probably as good quality of this without paying a lot of money for them so I would recommend getting theirs but if you don't want to you don't have to is it's not a requirement alright so the next thing we're going to do is drill a hole and we're going to be using the 2164 strobe it right here it's the middle sized one look at those if it's just into this hole here and so there we go it's just into this hole here and so whether you're using a drill or a drill press to do this just be cautious that you go very slowly and try to get the the mill done and you like you will go all the way through the bottom of this lower with that they'll probably want in the end advice while you're doing this did you talk about in the manual about how to set that up and advise exit this up here so you're always going to want to put it in the vise this way you can put some notches down there for you to get a hold of be very caritas just that you put it in this way do not put it in this way ever because the it's just gonna put too much pressure on all these screws and it's gonna mess up your kit be pretty sad if you do that so put it in this way right up there notches and go to town okay see here I've drilled off the hole using the fill press next time I'm kind of curious maybe I would just use the a drill there instead that way I'm not fighting the vise on the drill press lining it all up you know the drill it might be a little bit easier there but either way it's done came out very clear no issues of it when you're drilling when you're milling do be sure to use a decent amount of oil now you get to the manual and by the way this manual is is set up very good very clear I've only seen a couple missteps here the next thing we're supposed to be doing is removing that drill guide pieces that'll be removed but there's also right after this is starting a milling process and there's a lot of warnings here some of these are very beneficial so I'm gonna go through them real quick we're I in your protection just with anything never use compressed air to clear out the chips because I can get into your eyes check to look for the depth adjustment your router always check double check triple check and make sure that the lock is set on your router so my router has a couple here the whole assemblies right there and then the depth adjustment here be sure that that's all set so that you don't exceed here that if you do that it could ruin the mill could mess up your lower it just could get uglies always double-check and triple-check your down and up here your hash marks on the depth gauge visitor these pieces right here for a B and C those correspond with a B and C which are the areas that you're going to be milling and then a B and C also corresponds to which spacer pieces you're going to be putting on your and then your mouth so we'll start with a which is the lows go to B which would be the mediums and C would be the highs the taller ones but while you're while you're doing this you set these up see these little hash marks right here and get in there close enough Fria each one of these has hash marks and C does not be having these hash marks so you're gonna want to sit on the first hash mark when you start that a progression and you'll notice a stops about where B starts you'll want to start there and as you progress down through here you're going to want to do one no more than two lines at a time for depth that way it doesn't eat up your your bit and it keeps you going speed they recommend starting with one until you get used to running the router during a milling process and then you can bump up to two at a time if you work your way down through those but definitely start out with one once you feel comfortable I could ruin anything you can bump to to so I never exceed two hash marks at a time getting too much material result in a rough finish and can cause damage to your router and mill and the lower receiver use the highest speed setting on your router if equipped with variable speeds so mine is we can check that right now I'm set on one to nine since I as mine goes so we've got that now sent apply cutting fluid or wd-40 I'll just be using a Spray oil always checked at the end mil is not touching the lower receiver and center on the pedal hole before turning on the router so you know we want to make sure that these screws aren't getting loose this is moving over out of the way and that this freely moves right in the center of that you check all these screws make sure they're not not getting loose okay [Music] we checked that hold the router firmly maintained watered down with pressure at the router at all times always wait until the router comes to a complete stop before lifting the router off the jig and a lot of the router to tilt or lift off the top plate if you experience vibration or shatters slow down and reduce the depth of your cut milling should be done let's get back on there that even should be done moving the router and a slow small clockwise circles do not mill in straight lines until after the center section is milled out using circular motions of the mill edge by following the country of the guide template so you can kind of see there suggestion here where you're going to kind of go in loops and once you get all those loops in the center done then you can move your way over the edges and Mail straight doing those edges so again we're going to start with a milling template a and so we're gonna screw in the two short guide pins into the router adapter plates using the provided allen wrench and do not over-tighten these little pins so a little pain in there [Music] these are the short once again we have because the medium there's a long enough day for being see as we did over in depth one way I like to not overtaking things is always using allen wrench this way you don't have as much leverage but you can still get it very snug yet to get it for you they call this okay [Music] and then we're going to want to position our jig so we've installed those while holding the base the router against the edge of the top plate we are going to set the depth or nml to the very first hash mark in a so they get a picture of it right here I'm gonna start doing that and then we'll see if we can zoom in on that a little bit picture for you as we go I set this plate up [Music] flush I've got a lot [Music] this would be a good time to take your protective cover off of the bit so you don't want not ruin I'm covered but so you get the right depth and get this so you'll notice you want this you don't want those pins to be holding you away from that edge I want those pins either above or below get that up there nice and neat and then that router bit is going to be right to the first hash once you get that set make sure that while your things are tight [Music] [Music] and now we begin the routing process you're setting this up be sure you get it up the right direction so that those pins fall within these socks of either this way you're gonna be off in the wrong spots [Music] pretty disturbed [Music] so you'll notice I had that on a misdirection so I actually only milled about halfway across there I see that right there instead of milling all the way back to here I stopped because I had this on backwards so I'll need to trim this around so that this cutout goes around the buffer screw area this will fix that a little bit oil to us we're here [Music] shear pins are back in your slots [Applause] [Music] so I need to work my circles a little bit better that is first layer and then we're going to move up just one or two teeth here and we'll work our way down a and then we'll be back okay as you see we've set up the back pick up the chips we're kind of making a mess down here so I thought maybe I'd flip the vacuum cleaner in I get up holy smokes paper that the smaller hose in most shop backs but it is a small shop back [Music] a few notes I have a hard time getting lined up the right way every time one thing you want to do when you set that blower plate on or the medium plate is line up this gap with a window so that you can see what you're doing I had it lined up toward the size there I couldn't hardly see what I was doing so just a recommendation there try to line this plate up with the window [Music] okay now a big thing here is to be sure to change these out two mediums before you go down to the B level [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] let's stop here for a second we kind of look in here it's cutting pretty nicely can't see much rule all that stuff than ever this security or started back in its way out so take that back up [Music] a little loose [Music] through Jacobi's [Music] something you might want to pay attention to is uh how much how much of this waste is getting into these slots it's going to stop you from getting all the way into the edges on so on so you want to clean that out every once well [Music] [Music] [Music] okay you get to see a mistake I made so it's doing this last cut now it's just trying to get the edges a little harder so I was pushing in there I think these holes get filled up a little bit helped me out there but most of it was my fault and our trigger pocket is now a little bit too big [Music] and the picture [Music] see that front edge spill longer straight kind of cooks out there a little bit at the time mostly just aesthetic that's not going to harm anything but just be careful I guess right there doing that last trigger pocket looks like I'm pretty well done so pull this out clean it up and show you what the result looks like so I I forgot one step we need to do here is not drill out the sides [Music] I'm gonna do it by hand just so you can see how it works [Music] it's a really tight fit so you really perform and then you just make sure you're going very slow [Music] sir pizza out there to tell her dancing [Music] [Music] so we'll take it apart clean it up and I'll show you the results [Music] okay so one of the features is taking this part you really don't have to take the bigger part you should thanks true [Music] okay these things up here [Music] and also she was finished Schneider that [Music] Jukka doesn't actually have to come up Arthur institutions in pieces a little bit there it is we'll clean it up what it looks like one thing I'm gonna go over here is swapping out to a different size of cake first of all you want to take these screws out and then off remove this plate to the outside for the longer side so you just come to the outside so instead of being down in here we're asking on the outside we're using the outside set of screws all ears [Music] because somewhat juice and then we're going to change on our pin here for the larger [Music] so now you put your slide in place there in the front see if we have problems with this point like we did on the air 15 now I pin it right through up down just fine like that's great [Music] goes down we want to put our foot in first [Music] [Music] let's tape to have these screws [Music] and we are ready to start another one this is an ar-10 so I'm gonna give you that I'm gonna time it this time so you guys get an idea about what it really takes that first one was trial it's gonna take me a lot longer for your things out hopefully this video helped some of you speed up a little bit so as soon as I get this in we'll start the timer before I drill and am I gonna record this one but I think there's a few things that have done I can make better so I don't have to get time for you and I'll be back to show you the end results all right so I finished up to voters we're gonna look over a little quick I'll give you kind of an overview what I think about the system and Goods Bad's maybe review some things to watch while you're doing it show my mistakes so let's go ahead and go at it right now so here's my two finished ones I did one AR 10:1 ar-15 that came with it we'll look at the mistakes on the ar-15 first so you kind of see if like right there on the side since some of this edging that I caught so there's two different times when that happened you're gonna see that edge right there under my thumb two two different times that that happened one when I didn't allow the bit to stop before I pulled it out and I kind of cut the hedge number two I didn't have it steady when I first put it in there and it jumped on me when I first turned it on so you really need to have it either in this back pocket back here or you need to have it in the drilled hole in the front when you start the router up just so that it doesn't jump around on you the other mistake big one down here on the bottom you kind of see it that I round it off that corner there and again it's not gonna affect anything except how it looks so I want to go back real quick and talk about this one down here on the bottom and that jump so there's a couple of things that I noticed when all the shavings that get down in here even on the higher levels you get too many shavings around these corners you can't get in there nice and tight and so clean these out periodically really wipe them out pretty good get a rag in there maybe some q-tips wipe those those shavings out of there that'll help quite a bit keeping this clean other things really everything in the manual follow it when I want to mess this up it said go really slow and be very careful with that and that's essentially what I didn't do I didn't go slow enough and I jumped out the edge of these little pockets they're really small pockets and you're it's your longest shaft to keep you keep you in those pockets and so it actually is kind of hard to keep them in there so you got to be really careful make sure they're cleaned out and be really careful with it and then always let it stop this says right in the manual be sure you want to stop the free jump out that's again one of the results of it and it doesn't really affect anything here but but it's no longer quite as pretty as it used to be but so just take your time now I didn't time the first one but I did time the second air or ten and I'm extremely happy how this thing came out I mean you really almost can't even tell that somebody did this by hand and not with a machine it it just really came out pretty there isn't really any any flaws there you can kind of see there's a little bit right there by my fingerprint there's a little jump and that was cause - you know I was kind of excited and happy that I was done and I pulled it out before it was done spinning and it caught that edge right there I think I'll just polish that up and it'll be just fine I don't think that'll even really show up but this is really really pretty I mean Sarah coded or coded however I decided to do it it's you're not being hardly notice that was done by somebody instead of being machined so I'm really really happy how this works just really take your time the second one took me like 58 minutes I did hand drilled all the holes and I think I left that in the video so I hand drilled all these holes the longest one was this one right here took like 12 minutes to drill out that one by hand drill press was a lot better I just need to get my drill press slow down so that that works really good but I did want to show everybody how to drill that out by hand you have to take your time clean out your bit not you know the hole needs to be cleaned out every once in a while and be sure you pull it out and get all that junk out of there though that was what was holding me up speed wise on that one but really really good how that came out a lot of life left in this I mean you you'd be able to do tons and tons of these because none of this is a we're part unless you are kind of dumb and mess up like that taking off a little bit here from sitting the bed in there and in light of that up the second time I did it I was doing about a line and a half and it took 58 minutes from starting the drill hole to ending the drill so that doesn't count 20 taking it in or putting out of it out of the jig so I think an hour is pretty realistic time yeah I could probably go a little bit faster but I don't know that it was really necessary I'm pretty excited about this I think I'm going to keep using it I definitely have got not got better results with any other options and so I'm really excited how these came out so modulus arms I did buy it directly off the website they had a sale on them there was like 20 or $30 off sale and so you keep keep an eye on it sign up for their subscription I'm sure you'll you'll find out about their sales a lot more a little spendy I think I spent okay remember I don't have my sheet right here what I spent straight off their website I did buy all these parts came from them about their their bid kit which I would recommend there are very high quality bits the whole kids very high quality and I don't think I could really recommend it anymore I haven't used others so I can't compare with anything else but a non router comparison there's there's no comparison I probably never do one without a router again the router is definitely the way to go without having a full all-out milling machine to just set this up even then this might be easier than the milling machines the way that it's set up you're not worried about jumping at it out of the edge with a milling machine you still have to worry about that so yeah pick it I'm very happy with it I really think it's a good system and I'm gonna continue to use it I might even buy a second one and maybe start renting them out of the shop or something along those lines but good stuff if you have any questions you can contact us either through our Facebook page or directly through our our website still has our contact info even though it doesn't have much else jab arms in Cleveland Wyoming and this has been a review of the modulus Arms extreme router jig set

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Keywords: Modulus, 80%, Ghost Gun, Router Jig, JAB Arms

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Length: 54min 24sec (3264 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 13 2018