kingjoey

If you decide to drill (I think your ports are big enough though), be careful not to get the metal between the holes to thin or it will crack and you could end up with one big hole and a helluva bang the next time you pull the trigger. Seen cracks on a lot of home-drill jobs

The grip almost looks like a clone of the Galil grip which is much more comfortable than the 'shovel handle' AK grip

AA Universal tends to run bad in most semi-autos IME. Some Saigas will eat it, but I wouldn't modify an S-12 to get it to work on AA's because it will probably beat itself up with full power ammo.

I believe what you're talking about is a Krink-type cover. They are hinged at the front and flip up rather than pull out. Krinks (AKS-47U) have a sight mounted on the dust cover to give the short rifle a longer sight radius for better accuracy. The front of the dust cover latches into what would normally be the rear sight base on an AK. Something like this?

That is some beautiful wood. Its nice to see an S-12 in something besides black

Yeah, red Loctite is considered "permanent" on fasteners over 3/4" diameter, I would avoid using it on a brake unless you want the fight of your life if you decide to take it off later.

Goes to show folks that a car is 'concealment', not cover Its amazing how NOT bulletproof a car is

I hate to sound ghetto, but have you tried a little Teflon tape? Brakes usually work loose easier if there is clearance between the threads, teflon tape will fill that clearance better than Loctite will. That sounds really dumb, but if I had to come up with a MacGuyver-type solution to the problem that would be it.

With the shorter barrel your 'dwell time' (the time that there is pressure at the gas port) goes down substantially. You probably should get a factory-type puck to minimize the amount of initial volume that has to be pressurized. A lot of people with short Saigas run our KA-SG01A tappet with excellent results, but I can't guarantee that you don't have other issues as well. If you'd like, I can send you a sample KA-SG01A to try in it and see if it fixes your problem. The gasport size sounds about right, so I don't think you're having a problem there, I just think your dwell time is too shor

Winchester AA's have been the only ammo that I've seen a majority of Saigas hate. Hell, even a lot of other semi-autos won't eat that crap. We use Federal bulk shells and they run reliably in Saigas and most other semis.

If you'd like, send the gas block and tappet in and we'll get your block honed to the right ID at no charge. I'd like to see what the internal dimensions are on your block also, we may add a slightly undersized tappet to the lineup if enough of these out-of-spec blocks are floating around

You'd get more accurate results using the same gun but starting with it completely clean each time. With the wide fluctuation in tolerances and QC, you'd be hard-pressed to find two S-12's that were close enough to give an accurate test.

You have a point but the .50GI has outweighed those options in sense that i have already made my choise to give up +4 .45acp rounds to have the kickass size /Weight and energy of the .50GI..I kinda think of it as carrying my G29 10 mm with a 10round mag...I also think 10 rounds isnt too bad compared to some Slim line glocks and sigs that only carry 6rounds. I carry a G21 everyday, but if I was going for a 9+1 gun I'd want something slimmer. The 1911 that Guncrafters makes in 50GI is a great idea, but on the G21 it seems like the gun would be unnecessarily thick for the capacity. Somet

IMO the G21 is a bad candidate for the 50GI since you go from 13+1 rounds of 45ACP to 9+1 rounds of 50GI. Having a gun with the size and grip width of a double-stack mag but with single stack capacity just seems like a step in the wrong direction.

Not exactly, but thanks for the EE flashback