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TIMTIMTIM

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  1. I have had no luck making bolt cutters work. I broke them. I tried making my own from the h.f. bolt cutters. I really didn't want to spend $$ on akbuilder jaws. I bought a ball head bit from eBay for $5.00. Drilled holes for the rivets to set in and used a bucking bar made from a grade 8 bolt. Some of the heads are not real pretty but it's solid.

     

    My only issue with using rivets on the front trunnion is having to then dick with pressing the barrel in and out - I really don't have the proper tools to do so, or to headspace the barrel properly. I have a 20-ton shop press, but not the other tools. If someone can expound on the method for using a pair of bolt cutters as a riveting tool, and suggest a method for safely pressing the barrel in and out and headspacing it correctly without spending a bunch of money on extra tools - I'm wide open to suggestions. A weld build isn't preferable or ideal - but I'd like another rifle up and running.

     

     

     

    Do a screw build or buy a press and the correct bit. Give youa $100 for that piece of crap kit

    I've had shit luck with taps breaking off - and I started working on this front end to make it a screw build. There's a broken off tap in one of the holes, that I've spent a good hour and a half smacking with a punch to break apart - still have chunks in the hole. The kit isn't for sale :) It's destined to be another rifle. I "don't give a shit about it" in the same sense that I don't give a shit about a WASR-10 - I'll run it over or chuck it out of a plane to see what happens, but it's not for sale.
  2. Unless you remove the optics mount rail from the left side or the receiver, it will keep a left-folder from folding all the way shut...that is why most of them fold to the right.  There may be some exceptions out there though.  Just something to think about...

    I have an ace folder I put on upside down so it folds left. Doesnt hit the optic mount at all. Kind of like the button on thw bottom.

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  3. Yes just listen to these guys about converting it. Its not hard to do. The balance feels so much better. I went through the "im not converting phase" that lasted about 6 weeks and then I pulled it apart and was stuck with an unconverted tapco stock for the longest time.

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