UPDATE NOV 19,2006
Dissassembly is a breeze. If you have an AK dissasembly manual (I got mine from www.airsoftplayers.com) , you can be at the bare gearbox inless than 10 mins. Just make sure you remember what screw goes where. Smile
The Gun is divided in 3 sections: the stock (or butt), the receiver, and the barrel assembly.
The stock butt has enough room for a 8.4v sub c 2400mAh nicd battery
(a 9.6v 2400mAh ni-cd in 2x4 configuration will NOT fit inside the butt), I will have to do some DIYs for my battery problem.
The receiver as mentioned before, is made up of hi-quality