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MeatAxe556

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  1. Interesting! What did you have to cut off to get it to fit?
  2. The unique Vepr 12 safety, similar to the Galil safety, but unlike most AK safety levers, has a secondary prong off the main pivot pin shaft that fits into the left side of the receiver. The purpose of the prong seems to be to hold down / create tension on the stout Vepr 12 retaining plate, as the retaining plate doesn't have a hole to put the pivot pin through and hold the plate in place, like Krebs and Tapco retaining plates do. I put the safety in a vice and bent the thumb extension up out of the way with vice grips. Works fine now and doesn't dig into my hand! Looks a little funky, but
  3. Whoever designed the stock one had to be a sadist the way it digs into the side of your itrigger finger knuckle (this is the Vepr 12 that does not have the thumb safety lever on the left side of the receiver). Is there a Vepr 12 safety that does not have this blasted finger / thumb extension? The standard Vepr safeties don't fit and they don't have the two prongs on the left end of the pin anyway. I could just cut off the offending thumb extension, but would like to find a better solution. Has anyone successfully bent the finger / thumb extension up and out of the way?
  4. Jesus. Now ya tell me. I thought I just had a lemon of a pistol grip screw. I ended up drilling and dremeling the shit out of that thing to get it off and basically destroyed the Molot PG. Between the staked PG screw (for what reason in the annals of Kalashikov production?), the irritating hand guard and the painful thumb extension on the safety lever, whoever created the Vepr 12 must have been a sadist!
  5. This one is out of spec compared to 4 other safety levers I compared it to, but if you're interested, I'll sell this one to you for $65 shipped -- NO REFUNDS, NO EXCHANGES, NO WARRANTIES.
  6. Tension can need adjusting with any AK variant safety lever. Lift it past the safety stop, rotate it down as far as it will go. Support the pivot, and bend it whichever way it needs to go to correct tension. It is basically a stiff spring. don't worry about being gentle. On a $60 part, I'd just as soon return it for exchange, as CSS says they won't take it back if it's been altered in any way. Fortunately, I got ahold of CSS and they agreed to exchange this defective lever for another one.
  7. Oh sure, reputable companies (should) want to know when they make mistakes so they can correct them. Somebody up there needs to get their ass chewed out. May sound like a little thing, but I ordered a Krebs retainer plate for a Saiga 12 just before this safety issue and I got a regular plate that had been mis-packaged. Sure, i could grind it down myself, but that's a PITA and really not something I want to do for safety reasons, as a pin popping out of alignment at the wrong moment can either tie up the weapon or make it go uncontrolled full-auto -- not something you want to happen. I
  8. Oh, I'm well aware that QC doesn't catch everything, because I'm the one that catches it. I'm a former (unwitting) beta tester for SIG USA, not that I buy any of their crap anymore. Which is why I don't have much tolerance for QC issues when I end up wasting time, money and effort sorting them out. QC issues can usually be headed off if someone bothers to take 30 seconds to function test a product before they kick it out the factory door, especially if it's supposed to be a "custom" part that you pay a premium for. The pivot shaft averages @ 4.71mm (it's eccentric). The other ones (that wo
  9. All of the above. ETA: I tried this new (Saiga) Krebs safety in a Vepr and it had pretty much the same effect, maybe not quite as sloppy but still not safe. I then tried it on an old MAK90 and it was just as sloppy as on the Saiga .308. I then tried both the MAK90 and the Krebs safety that came out of the Vepr in the Saiga .308 and they both worked fine aside from the dimple being in the wrong place...which leads me to believe that this new Krebs safety is just horribly out of spec. Somebody in QC obviously dropped the ball on this...anyone else have any issues with Krebs' QC latel
  10. I tried a Krebs Custom safety ("Mark VI for Saiga Rifles") today that I ordered from CSS. It works..."in a way": although the safety engages to stop the trigger from releasing the hammer, this safety is so incredibly loose and wiggly that it's totally unsafe. There is no tension on the safety lever at all -- the safety lever flops up and down of it's own accord. The dust cover is the only thing that keeps the safety from failing when the trigger is pulled. Otherwise, if you pull the trigger in the "safe" position with the dust cover off, the trigger will let the hammer drop and the safety
  11. It's looking like the CSS rail is the only game in town for an aluminum handguard made for the Saiga .308. Do you know how much it weighs? Thanks! I had it and took it off. Its nice and made well but just overkill for what I needed. SGM has a 308 handguard with rails. I had one of the SGM handguards, but it broke around the screw hole. Also, it's heavy and clunky and uncomfortable (the cheese grater grips -- not the rails -- really dig into your skin). It's terrible. The MI handguard for the Vepr is great, but it won't fit the Saiga .308.
  12. Apparently, it only fits a 0.600" diameter barrel, so that's a no go. Also it costs $279.00!
  13. It's looking like the CSS rail is the only game in town for an aluminum handguard made for the Saiga .308. Do you know how much it weighs? Thanks!
  14. Thanks for the info! Hopefully being within 1/10" is close enough! Trying to find an aluminum handguard that will clamp onto the trunion end of the Saiga .308 barrel (like the MI does for the Vepr .308). Unfortunately the extra stout Saiga is harder to find such handguards for.
  15. Wondering if anyone has the diameter measurement of the Saiga 20 barrel where it connects with trunion/receiver. I'm trying to see if a handguard for a Saiga 20 might fit a Saiga .308, which has a barrel diameter of @ 0.895" at that point. Thanks!
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