OK, I have a Starrett automatic center punch and know how to use it. Want to be cooler than that. Not that anyone else cares, I just like looking at work I've done and feeling good about it. I know Colt does square stakes, and I like the look of it. I also like that it fills more of the notch in the nut, so as the nut backs off into the stake, it runs into more of a wall than a ramp with a round stake. There's lots of discussion about how Colt uses a fixture and press to create these. I have presses and can build fixtures. Having worked in manufacturing management, I also understand that using a fixture and press may just be required to get consistent, neat results when the people doing the work are UAW members. I can also do careful hand work.
What I'd really like to get my head around is a better vision of what I may be trying to recreate. I don't have access to a Colt to look at the stakes. There are limited macro photos of actual Colt castle nut staking that Google is finding for me. Really only one view, this one here, which is discussed as an original Colt stake: https://www.pewpewtactical.com/wp-co..._-1024x768.jpg
It's not clear to me what tool made that and how it moved. Is it a v-shaped punch? Or square, and rode the displaced material downward and outward from its starting point out into the slot?
Can someone with a 6920 sitting around maybe take some close-up photos from a couple different angles so I can see what's going on with the stakes?
Thanks in advance!
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