AK spetz RPK

[slacky]

Please for the love of all that's holy, if you're advising on building an RPK check that you know what one looks like. A good start is to forget any yearning for a trumpet flash hider.

 

It's very viable to convert the spets to an RPK if I'm understanding you right, but you would need to replace the furniture, get a full new front end and longer inner barrel, replace the cylinder with a type 0 cylinder accordingly, etc. I'm sure in the end you would end up with an excellent RPK. I love mine when it works.

 

The hero-arms drums mags are excellent - I really recommend them. Avoid Top etc. If you're concerned about accuracy like me, also ensure you do not use a 74 flash hider for the rifle - the RPK74 uses 45 round magazines rather than the 75 drum mags which were available (but like gold dust) for the 47.

 

If you want any help give me a shout. I'm always happy to help someone else looking to get a nice RPK.

 

Cheers.

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hes making a spetz RPK, using the frontend of the spetz - unconventional but differant, which is nice.

[Hellfire8]

thanks marlowe, great advice,

 

i dont want the front furniture as i want it partly unique i wanna keep the short front end, if that make sense (the handguard/front of beta is smaller than normal AK right? so rpk furniture wouldnt fit, i would however like the RPK stock

 

also, the trumpet flash-hider could be nice, it'd be like a RPK but different if you understand my meaning?

[Hellfire8]

Can someone tell me where I can get a BLACK, ABS (not wood) RPK stock on its own, without the handgaurd as this is pretty useless to me

 

Many thanks

Graeme.

 

How good are these?

http://www.wgcshop.com/pcart/shopper.php?i...ding%20Magazine

[Clot]

Hey hellfire.

 

Having personally owned one of those drum mags, i can safely say it ROCKS!

 

The only thing with fitting it to the spet is that you gotta file down the mag catch on the mag about half a mil, and itl fit nicely and perfectly.

 

Feeds flawlessly, although a bit loud on the motor noise:)

[Hellfire8]

oh well its a support gun, I am sure you wont overhear it from the motor noise of constand firing.

 

Im a bit reluctant of using a 9.6v batt as it'd kill the internals quicker? right?

 

btw, anyway i can make it sound LOUDER.

[Hellfire8]

Run down of parts in order of buying them.

 

RPK barrell with bipod, Hmmmm yummy

Inner tightbore (gotta buy a barrell so might aswell do tightbore)

 

btw, whats the best way of finding the right left for the inner barrell? might sound stupid but I havem y reasons for asking

 

Internals, Piston, metal bushings and a new hop unit (how expensive are these?)

 

other than that its the drum mag and a lone RPK stock if I can find it.

[Hellfire8]

Ok, lets cut this down

 

Spetz = 15% of project,

RPK barrell and inner barrell and hop 35%

Internals, spring and bushings, prob a new piston aswell due to the exstended barrell 25%

rpk stock and drum mag 25%

 

got spetz today, fires fine, looks ok, few scratches, but 15% done

[Hellfire8]

Courtesy of Agentspencer. thanks

 

I am maybe bout to buy the SRC RPK barrell n bipod,

 

I am guessing I attach it to the 14mm thread on my beta and it comes with the thread to attack? also does it have a thread for the flashhider, thanks.

[slacky]

Courtesy of Agentspencer. thanks

Do you have an ak47 front end then? as the picture shows?

 

I am guessing I attach it to the 14mm thread on my beta and it comes with the thread to attack? also does it have a thread for the flashhider, thanks.

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your gonna have to take the spetz barrel out then replace it with the rpk barrel, it wont thread on the spetz as a barrel extension.

 

and yea it must have the thread for a flashhider.

 

-Mike

[Hellfire8]

hmmm, i was just wondering as looking at the pics on wgc and unco the barrell looks short.

[otherrandomhero]

that gun am teh sechs! You forgot the drum mag in the pictures, though. That looks like a great gun, i can't wait till you finish it.

[TerranCmdr]

Yeah, looks very cool. Would deffo look cooler with a drum mag. Maybe a scope of some kind also.

[Hellfire8]

hmmm only thing with the pic (and its what I want) is that it has the barrell (above the barrell) if you understand me. which you get on the normal AK but not the spetz.

 

how do i do this?

 

Also, it WILL have a drum mag, but forgot to ask in the thread for the pic that it needed one.

[Hellfire8]

Now thinking bout possibly getting some newer reinforced gears, the gun is old so the gear's prob been used a bit n worn down.

 

Although I know nothing bout Gearboxes or Reshiming,

 

it's either that or buying a new Gearbox, which i might do, got suggested a ICS V3 gearbox.

[renegadecow]

that would be the gas tube. on a spetz, its integrated with the front sight and you can't install an SRC barrel/bipod set with the front part of a spetz. heres a way to get the following parts cheap: bipod, long outer barrel, AK47 front sight, AK47 gas tube. Get the chinese clone SVD(47) and sell the gearbox, receiver, and plastic furniture.