Posted: 10/4/2003 1:27:51 PM EDT
| Any of you guys build AKs? |
| Nobody I know of in GA build AKs. However if you go over to the AK section of this board a lot of people will recommend Troy Sellars of InRange. www.inrangec2.com Expect to wait 2-4 months, but I have heard absolutely no complaints. Also he's pretty local. He's up in Kodak, TN. |
| an AK allthough simple to operate, and set up for manufacture, it is one of the more difficult homebuilts. For one thin you need to press the barrel into the trunnion with a hydraulic press, rivet the trunion into the reciever, then check headspace. Getting up to that point, I'd leave it to Troy Sellars to do the whole thing. I really can't see buying 1500-2000 dollars worth of equip just to make one 350 dollar rifle. |
| I build FALS and got all the tools to do them. Headspace gages, receiver wrench, Gunplumbers video and book, parts kits, on and on. Money. I got a Hungarian AMD-65 parts kit in mint condition. I dont' want to have to get another bunch of stuff to do one build-Press, rivet inside the receiver tool, headspace gages, blah on and on- more money. It takes this stuff to keep your face intact. May have to pay someone with the right tools. Thanks, it may be the smart thing to do, pisses me off though, nothing like holding a rifle you built up to your face and pulling the trigger, do it wrong and get the bolt in forehead syndrome. |
| I was thinking about one the AMD 65 from FAC for a winter project this year. From what I understand the barrel is already pressed in the trunion on this model and you can install it on the received with some tap'n and thread'n and use case hardened bolts. I build FAL's too and it cant be that difficult to build an AK clone. |