Dimitri MdP

WE AKs vs GHK AKs? wow, that's a pretty wide question..Let's try to sort it briefly: External materials: WE: Steel receiver, top cover, triangle stock (74U) and barrel (74u only), muzzle device. Most small parts (gas block, front sight, etc) are zinc alloy. GHK: Everything is steel except the outer barrel. Internal materials: WE: Pretty much everything is zinc alloy. Fire control group will need replacement to steel CNC ones at some point no matter what you try to do. GHK: Steel hammer and trigger... but zinc alloy sears and firing pin. Weird mix. Zinc parts will eventually need

Well, I have a cracked trigger box on a Hephaestus reinforced AK.. So this time (and this time only) I won't blame it on RATech The firing pin and the channel it moves through seems to be simple a fragile design. BTW @DrakLite, don't want to push you with that Well AK comparative review ... but can you check if they have steel trigger parts as rumoread?

I've never seen that happen on stock internals, it's always the steel firing pin that causes it afaik. But a steel FCG is a must anyway, so this crack will eventually appear too. There's a guide to reinforce it somewhere round here... No matter what mumbo jumbo we try to prevent the FCG from snapping, it will eventually happen. Most people seem to have problem with their hammers, but in my experience (having 4 or those in our team) it was always the right prong of the firing pin, the one that slides on that groove. It takes a long, long time to get there though

Really diggin the type D trigger. Nope, that just won't happen in stock internals.

The question is... how???

Sadly, that's what happens when

The gas piston is there just for aesthetics, and no matter what you try to do, it would never, ever break even if it was made of paper. Which is not. Getting a steel one only adds weight, which turns the bolt heavier, which requires more gas to cycle. Nothing else than that. If you want more recoil (the WE AK is a pretty hard kicker to begin with) just use a stronger gas and limit the volume going to the nozzle with FG discs. It doen't even look better than WE's OEM one. This is what a 74U gas piston should look like: Team GBB's look much closer, still not identical because WE's design i

It will make your bolt heavier, which mostly will ruin gas efficiency.

Awesome. Can you check if they provide the same FPS output? Really, really want to see a complete review / comparison of these guns

Both FG-Airsoft and Team GBB have some spring buffers to increase RoF, and I've seen many people making DIY versions also. That kind of spring buffer will work better than trying to get 2 sorts of springs above, in the spring guide.

What for?

Maple Leaf buckings require long, open and rounded barrel windows. That pretty much means Maple Leaf inner barrels (and perhaps Acton Army and a couple more) They won't work at all with the extremely short windowed WE OEM barrels all their guns carry since ~2 years on.

If it's like every other WE Open Bolt, the Maple Leaf combo works wonders. ML Autobot bucking, ML concave nub, ML 6.02 inner barrel, and you'll be reaching out to snipers.range. I know by now I might seem to be a Maple Leaf salesman, but heck, this things really put our AK, RPK and SVD to a whole new level.

DarkLite I thought you meant buying a magazine, but you actually went for the whole gun And apparently the last one in stock, as now it doesn't appear anymore on search results and the previous links return a 404 error. Thank you so much man, I'm really looking forward for that review and comparison. --------------- Renegadecow I know the feeling. I've had the opportunity to compare the weight of a fully loaded WE AKS-74UN magazine to a loaded real AK74 magazine, and the weight difference was only 20 grams... with the WE being the heavier. The AEG one was only 1/6th of their weight. I r

Were did you find them in stock? Please let us know how that turns out

agreed, but... Looks like Well clone ironically did a better job at it: Can't wait for confirmation on that mags compatibility .. And specially reviews on the gun itself. If somehow it turns out to be a decent performer for that ridiculous price tag, the whole team might go the "WE" AKS-74UN way.

from the position, I'm pretty sure it threads into the same place in the inner magazine as the traditional ones, only this time it grabs the metal retainer instead of that crappy plastic tab in the outer shell. That was a fairly common DIY mod, if those mags are brand new it might mean once again that WE listened and finally fixed their sh*t

You said it. Our "WE" RPK is the only gun I've seen that really keeps enemy heads down. There's something in that noise that affects them psychologically. Why not go for the clasic 7.62x39mm RPK instead of the RPK-74? The drum mag would be more correct (there are not such thing as 5.45x39mm drum mags), and the conversion should be easier as you can use the WE PMC gas block, front sight, etc..

Hi guys, guess I'm gonna post my personal experience with the platform.. We own 4 WE AKs in our team, all of them 74UNs (one of them converted into a RPK with a HPA-powered drum) Strangely enough the hammer did not break in any of them, it was always the firing pin the first to snap. All 4 had the right tab of the firing pin cracked at ~3000 rounds. We installed reinforced trigger units as they broke... used Ra-Tech in the first one, but it was such a PITA to fit that we went for Hephaestus in the others. The first Hephaestus kit, probably from the first batch, had machining marks all ove