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  1. Does relationships with inanimate objects count?
  2. Been doing "all metal" builds since I made my Krag. Receiver was just modified: ejection port enlarged, stripper clip guide cut out, all with an angle grinder and dremel. Barrel bands are aluminum: cut out sheets, bent and brazed together. It's not all metal though hence the quotation marks like for example the trigger guard. The outer and inner surfaces of the trigger guard are flat sheets brazed to the bottom metal but the space in between is filled with marine epoxy. The bolt handle is fiberglass and marine epoxy with a steel bolt running through it.
  3. Yeeeah, the new image uploader was just overwriting the previously loaded image sooo here's a video slideshow instead:
  4. It looks skewed. You can see an angled gap where the handguard meets the receiver. I assume this misalignment might also be why your cleaning rod isn't all the way in.
  5. I'd square off the handguard first, but that's me.
  6. I grafted an AEG barrel to my AKS74U barrel with hand tools and a Dremel. 10/10 will not do again.
  7. Have Hephaestus discontinued making them though? Haven't seen a set in stock for months now. And the only stuff they post about is GHK.
  8. LOL plenty! This is a WE thread after all. Things that broke along the way: hammer, hammer spring, trigger housing (repaired and reinforced), there's a crack on my barrel trunnion but mitigated after filing it down for a more even carrier to trunnion impact on closing. Things replaced: everything to make it an AK105, inner barrel, hop rubber, Hephaestus steel trigger set, Well steel hammer, DIY hammer spring, changed the spring loaded recoil buffer with a DIY urethane one.
  9. My bolt carrier finally bit the dust. After 5 years and well over 20k rounds (might be closer to 30k) through, a $30 replacement isn't too bad. It actually still shoots fine with the broken off guide lug but I've seen nozzles eventually break because of this as it has only one stopper left on the other side adding $20 to the repair bill. edit: forgot to mention I've noticed the guide lugs bowing out progressively in the past which leads to becoming a tighter and tighter fit in the receiver. When that happens I'd either file them down just a bit or bend them back in with a bench vice.
  10. Will be making a more stable mount. This on'es just hastily put together.
  11. Just a small update. While I widened the hop window right after I got it to provide more hop (as I do to all new WE guns), I found accuracy to be lacking. Grouping roughly 8" at 20m my Makarov does better even with the suppressor off. I was examining the barrel and noticed the roughly machined crown so stuck it on my ghetto lathe (power drill) and proceeded to clean it up: refaced the front edge with a file (was kinda bumpy originally), sanded and polished the deep chamfer to a mirror polish (had a ridged pattern presumably from being turned). Surprisingly enough, it shrunk groups in half! Wil
  12. I dunno, maybe I just have freakish hand strength considering I free hand drilled that pin repair as in no putting things in a vice, just held on and hoped the bit doesn't slip and skewer my hand.
  13. The china pso-1 I handled recently (attached to a Galil for a friend) needed modification with the bulb housing below as it was also hitting the dust cover. Otherwise seemed fine to be but I've read of other people complaining about theirs getting messed up with recoil mostly with the reticle starting to turn around or the illumination conking out. The one in your 2nd link is also a PK-A I believe but the version with POSP style turrets. Has a different thingy at the bottom which looks spot on with the real one so should go right on an AK.
  14. Thanks! It's not as scary in person when the exhaust diaphragm of my mask makes fart noises.
  15. Finished the basic layout of my raider chest armor. Some of the elements like my pants and type 63 chest rig are carried over from my older wasteland loadout only with added bits. Will probably follow up with raider leg armor.
  16. It's definitely ferrous but was very easy to drill out so maybe MIM or iron. Can't complain much since the gun is cheap to begin with.
  17. Fixed by drilling and sticking a carbon steel pin with super glue through.
  18. Sooo, trigger pin on mine broke. Will take pics later when I fix it.
  19. Beware of the Chinese PK-As. The cap under the tube is much wider than normal making them interfere with an AKs dust cover hence why they're labeled as "SVD red dot". Ended up fabricating a new cap, still, not bad for $53.
  20. Saw Vorpal's pics on FB. They're still marginally wider than real steel/GBBR. But a huge improvement over the fat brick industry standard.
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