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Do you have a KE Arms KP-15 and are frustrated that the QD socket they sell can only be mounted on one side?
Are we no better than rutting cavemen?
Worry no more!
What you're going to need:
1x Magpul MAG-333 Sling Mount Kit Type 1
1x Magpul MAG-332 Sling Mount Kit Type 2
6x #8 Washers.
Use the 5/8" long screw from the Type 1 kit.
It's the second shortest one in the pack.
Burn off the locking compound or you're never going to be able to get the screw all the way in with the tiny amount of QD socket you'll have to grab onto! Use good old Loctite Blue instead.
Put the screw through the QD socket from the Type 1 kit and then place three washer on the screw.
Shove it into the hole in the stock, it doesn't matter which side. I used the 1/8" allen key to guide the screw to make it easier to hit the hole.
Place the other three washers on the screw from the other side.
Now screw on the QD socket from the Type 2 kit.
Et viola!
The hole in the stock is too deep for a Magpul QD socket, so you need the washers for two reasons. First to get the mouth of the socket out far enough that the sling swivel will lock in. Second to eat up the length of the screw so it doesn't keep the swivel from locking in.
I don't have one of these lowers, however the method you illustrate and describe looks like it could be useful for mounting double sided QD sockets on a number of other kinds of stock or other places on a firearm you might want them. I've seen a number of folding or collapsing stocks that the supplied hardware has the same issue as this that your design could probably be adapted for.
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Thanks for posting this! I purchased the Magpul swivels a few weeks ago and found that they end up too deep in the stock alone, and hadn't made any progress in doing something about it. I originally had been looking at a long set screw (threads the whole length, and an allen wrench hole on one end without a head) and 2 of the type 2 QDs. This looks a lot easier/simpler than my idea.
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