Eleutheros
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Your simplest solution may be to install Dinzag's .223 bullet guide, as others have with success in using Galil steels. Your homemade bullet guide may be sufficiently different.
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Modified AK lower handguard broke during installation
Eleutheros replied to Eleutheros's topic in Saiga Rifle Conversions
My statement of the topic is inaccurate. I should have said "Modified AK lower handguard retainer broke during installation" -- the retainer, not the handguard itself. Moderators, please correct my mistake. -
Today a friend and I tried to press my modified AK-47 lower handguard bracket onto my Saiga 7.62x39 barrel, using the heavy-duty vise in his shop. I purchased the Russian-made bracket from K-Var (AK-338R) and in preparation we had cut and dremeled it, using as a reference photos of Classy Kalashnikov's modified bracket. On the upper flanges' inner surface I had removed enough metal so that the gap was a couple of threads wider than in those photos, providing more clearance to lessen the tension. For protection the bracket and barrel were sandwiched between blocks of wood within the vise,
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You absolutely must have a bullet guide to use Galil mags in a Saiga .223. The company that did your conversion failed to install the part that is indispensable for your rifle to use military mags. The factory mag and the Surefire mag don't need one because they have their own bullet guide molded on the mag. Do nothing else but buy and install Dinzag's bullet guide designed specifically for the Saiga .223 and your problem will be solved. There are two types available, depending on the trunnion (flat or rounded). Get the bullet guide kit that fits the shape of your rifle's trunnion (ei
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I have been unable to find online a source of springs for .223 Galil 35-rd steel mags. But the spring of these mags is of identical coil dimensions as the spring of AR-15 30-rd mags. The AR-15 spring has an extra coil, making the spring longer by that much. Does anyone here have experience using AR-15 springs as a replacement in Galil steel mags? Or a source for the Galil springs?
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Success! I marked with a sharpie the notch area on the bottom of the Tapco plate closest to the trigger pin, removed the plate and filed it at that spot with a small half-round file. I actually started filing a bit too far aft, so I kept advancing the file forward and upward slightly while trying to minimize the depth removed and to represent the curve of the trigger pin. Now the safety lever fits into the receiver hole and is holding the plate in place, the trigger pin is secure, and the plate has no vertical wiggle. Thanks for your advice, guys!
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With the cover off I've now tested the spring's flexibility when I push the button forward, and the spring seems to function normally; it is not binding. Once I put the cover back on, however, the button can't be pushed in far enough to release the cover. I've also swapped covers as a test, with the same results. I don't know what the problem is. I'll phone Cadiz Gun Works to see what they recommend. But for now I have a temporary solution: having the button pushed in as far it goes (insufficient for the cover's release), with a quarter-turn of a wooden clothespin leg at the rear of th
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