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I am my own action figure
The 13.625" gas tube length is the common, and if there is such a thing, standard for Intermediate. The 13.125 is going to be a hard tube to find and you will likely have to get one custom made.
I am not sure if KAC, LaRue, Vltor first produced one, all were within a year of each other from what I have heard, but I have not researched it extensively. I first ran one about 10 years ago, but it was a one off on a 17" barrel.
18" intermediate has some advantages, but not for what I do. My 18" barrels (and the Nordic we sell on our website which I designed with Nordic) are intended for competition and with low mass operating systems and with no adjustable gas block. They are very soft shooting. For 16" guns, I have basic purposes and for normal .223 loads I run the Stretch16 melonite barrel, which is an intermediate system. For my super-fast lightweights, I run carbine gas...but I am running a 40 grain bullet at 2200 fps, so it is a very specialized set-up. I just got my Stretch Precision 16" .308 barrel this week, so that is still a work in progress, however my team-mate did a good amount of the T&E on the production proofs for that barrel.
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