Poor CS - GemTech

So this weekend I was going to sight in a new blackout build.... used a BSF Carbon barrel on this build and was anxious to put rounds down range.  16" barrel shooting Hornady Black 110VMAX using the above suppressor.   After a few rounds notice I couldn't get on paper and started investigating what was going on.   The barrel twist was so fast it was shred the jackets of the Vmaxs and fragmenting everywhere.  All to late to notice the very end of my suppressor had taken a hit and has slight but noticeable damage.  Called Gemtech today and they kindly informed me they won't repair or fix and to enjoy my expensive paperweight in not so many words.   The endcap appears to be able to be removed and replaced but they don't sell the parts or fix so what to do now with this expensive paperweight.   Not sure how damaged structurally it is but I do know this. i'm going to keep using it until it lets loose given it can't be fixed and I can assure you no more GemTechs will be purchased by me.

Nope basically told me I was S.O.L.  not repairable and they don't have parts to do so.

Edited by SVT_Tactical - February/18/2020 at 12:01

yeah but the discount don't help the $200 tax stamp!

The end cap is often the final piece in the mashed potato hell that is your baffles/internals.

If it is that easy, there you go, problem solved. I hope it is that easy!

Making a suppressor is an NFA regulated activity. I wouldn’t touch that. What I see there is a fancy “washer” with a circular hole pattern in it. I’d have no knowledge or control over how someone used a fancy washer someone requested to be made. It’s a machine demo.

G, have you shot it with the can removed to verify the bullets are indeed spinning apart vs striking baffles? It’s possible that the threaded connection on your can isn’t perfectly concentric with the hole in the baffles. The IDs in your baffles and end cap could all be perfectly concentric with their ODs, but if the threaded connection at the barrel runs out and doesn’t orient the whole assembly C/L Concentric with bore C/L...you could have a geometrically perfect replacement part and it would be moot.

Lockjaw wrote: That looks like a manufacturing defect to me, the hole is just a little off center  I would call back and ask to speak to someone else. Go up the food chain.  But I will say this is what Apple told me when I took my Iphone 4S in and asked them for a new battery. I was willing to pay for it, but no. They had to load some software on my phone, connect it to one of their Ipads and see where my battery condition fell on a graph. I had to be below some line in order for them to sell me a battery.  I said ok, and have been an Android user ever since.

The baffles all seem fine.  Can't tell any damage with the bore scope or flashlight in it.   I'm not sure if the endcap is "welded" on or just mechanically attached.  Trouble is finding a tool to try to remove it.  I'm planning to work on messing with it later this weekend and determine just what it will take to remove.  Heck it may not even need to be replaced just atheistically its looks bad.  On the gun spinning the jackets off.  I tested without a can with same results.  shoots 220's fine, 125 SMKs fine..... 110 VMAX it shreds them.  Both hornady black ammo and hunter shack 110's did the same thing.