Those who have the SB Tactical CZPDW brace should know after owning one for a while that if you slam the brace back into full extension you will create burrs in the Manticore mount where the arms for the brace travel and the limiting screws impact the Manticore mount. It doesn't take much to create these burrs, a handful of times of hard impacts and you got some burrs in the Manticore mount caused by the limiting screws on the end of the arms interfering with the arms to the point that the finish is getting scrapped off the arms (previous owner did this, I learned early on not to slam the brace into full extension). Additionally these burrs interfere with the brace freely collapsing when you point the muzzle down and push the release button. I disassembled my S1 pistol with a manufacture date of 2018 with no problem at all (3/32" hex key for set screw and the fasteners acting as limiting stops on the arms) and filed down the burrs. Simple enough. Then I attempted to disassemble the SB Tactical CZPDW brace on my S2 Micro with a manufacture date of 2019. Holy cow. Some genius applied high temperature threadlocker to all three fasteners on the CZPDW brace. I've got sets of Bondhus t-handle hex key wrenches and I was twisting on my t-handle 3/32" hex key so hard I though I was going to break something, on all three fasteners. The CZPDW brace on my S1 was a piece of cake so I knew there had to be some threadlocker involved. So I get out my Leister Triac ST heat gun capable of putting out 700 degrees C (1,292 degrees F) on high in an extremely tight discharge pattern. I ran it WOT in order to reduce dwell time and avoid residual heat from spreading to parts I definitely don't want getting too hot, like the polymer receiver. I confined the application of heat to the set screw on the Manticore adapter while attempting to get the set screw to breakout every 15-20 seconds. The moment the set screw started to breakout i discontinued the application of heat. I still ended up getting the left side of the receiver too hot and now it's marred. I don't understand the need for high temp threadlocker on any of the three screws on the CZPDW brace, especially the set screw. It appears to me the stock retaining button is sufficient to retain the Manticore mount in place. Not only that, if you apply much more than moderate torque to the set screw it really digs into the polymer receiver. So why the heavy duty thread locker??
So be advised, it will take quite a bit of heat to get the set screw to breakout, and your Dewalt or whatever heat gun with it's wide discharge nozzle and lower temperature range will probably take so long and create so much residual heat that you could very well damage your receiver, at least the left clamshell side.
I cannot believe someone would apply this sort of threadlocker where no threadlocker is needed.
