Ouch, that hurts. I felt the same way back in 2013. When my Nodak Spud 74 and 47 receivers rusted to shit.

 

I've heard good things about Atlantic's customer service so I'm crossing my fingers that the email makes it to the right person. If not then that would be $70 down the drain ($50 for receiver, $20 for xfer)...

If worst comes to worst I guess I could blast it, throw some weld on there and grind it back down, then refinish it. The black oxide is not very resilient anyways. Already started developing some surface tarnishing just from fingerprints.

 

Better you found it now. Instead of later when the rifle was assembled.

 

Atlantics customer service is good, so I don't think you'll have a problem getting that exchanged. Good luck!

 

Im sure they will take care of it, its been awhile since i got anything from Atlantic but they always had great customer service and im sure nothing has changed. I actually will recommend first AK buyers to get from them if they are going to buy online because of the awesome customer service they have.

 

When I started having issues drilling through these and nds receivers. I stopped buying them. For what two years now I've only built on Childers receivers. That ain't gonna change, they are much easier to work with, look nicer around the wdges and I can drill holes in them with out buying out the drill bits at lowes and ak-builder.

 

Atlantic will take care of you. Best warrenty in the buisness.

On another note, it is nice to finally have receiver options these days wheres in years past we really different.

 

They emailed me back and want to send me a return label to get it replaced. The thing I'm wondering about is having to spend another $20 to xfer (send) it back and another $20 to get the new one for the xfer when the replacement comes in. Anyone have any experience with that? I really didn't want to spend a grand total of $60 on ffl transfer fees for a $50 receiver when its all said and done...

 

If I recall you can send a firearm back for repairs to the manufacture without a FFL.

Im not exactly sure how that works as for as atlantics role. They built the firearm so I imagine they would be the "manufacturer".

 

+1, I think this is the case because your sending it off to licensed dealer. It never hurts to double check though, just to be sure.

 

You have to use fedex or ups right?

 

Yeah. In the case of my messed up Ruger they just emailed me the shipping label and I had to drop the pistol off at the local hub.

 

I sent a pistol back to CZ once because they said they wanted to replace the barrel but they just sent me a new gun instead and mailed it directly to me. They said all they had to do was make a note in their logs that it was replaced and I didn't need a new form filled out. I was pretty surprised that they did it that way since I had never heard of doing it like that before.

 

I would for sure call Atlantic. They are good people.

 

They sent a replacement out. It should be here in a few days. Todd from Atlantic was very helpful and I definitely appreciate their customer service.