April 22nd build party results.

[longhunter]

So I had about 8 rounds through it and the trigger pin backed out of the receiver locking the whole thing up. Went to a vice, supported the head of the trigger pin and gently tapped the reciever around the small end of the trigger pin. The reciever pulled in and the trigger pin was then in the right position. While I was in there I smoothed up the hammer face.

Ran it this afternoon. It went 20 rounds with the bolt sticking every 3-4 rounds. I would pull the bolt back a 1/4" and let it chamber the next round. After that it went 50 rounds without problem (would have went more but it was all the ammo I had) :cry: . In retrospect I was also running the weapon without lube. Should have lightly lubed it. I bet it would have ran better sooner. I have always been of the opinion that a weapon has to have 200 or so rounds in it to start judging its reliability. Even though this is an old gun (1986) with a new receiver I guess that it is really starting all over. Reguardless I am extreamly happy with it so far (need to finish it at the next build party) and looking foward to the next 200 rounds. Thanks the guys at the build party and Willies Wagon for his help: without your build party I would not have ever gotten this far.

[WillysWagon]

Hey LH, glad to help. Get some ammo, oil that puppy up and have fun :mrgreen: I have a few that are in the finish curing stage, then it's time to re-finish the wood. All in all, I've had a great time tinkering on the kits I have. What a cool hobby.

[mr_will]

yea put some rounds thru it, and it will get better, oh yea and use some clp on it

[longhunter]

Got the picture thing up and going. Ran 200 rounds through it this afternoon (after putting some Tetra Lube on the rails) ran like a top.

[WillysWagon]

I had 3 rifle builds out this past weekend.
Amazing how fast you can dump a 75-round drum magazine!!!!
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I'll have to post pics later.

[Delphi]

Nice ak looks allot like mine

Also one thing i have learned about the romanian front grips is that they get in the way of inserting 30 round magazines....

This problem is easly fixed, i filed it down in the spot where it meets with the 30 round mag and causes problems by about 1 inch, and than smoothed the wood out. IF your carefull it can look very professional and turn it into an effective front grip, without making you work hard inserting mags.

[longhunter]

Yea, I noticed that on a couple of mag changes I ended up hitting the foregrip with the mag (I'm new to AKs and Rommys, but used to run a Mini-14 back in the day ). I realized that the mag only needs 1/2" or so of pivioting to allow it to be pulled down and out of the receiver.
I am moving the forearm (in the above picture) to build number two, a copy of a AIMS-47 (WillysWagon is partly to blame for that :mrgreen: ). Since this picture was taken I have replaced it with a Rommy G handguard that I cut down to a AKM profile. Not much wood there, and I tell you she gets hot fast.

[Delphi]

ya... i like plenty of heat shielding one hundred rounds through it, and you accidentally touch the metal and say hi to a brand new blister....

I'm actually thinking of making my next AK chromed... that should look really nice, i'll show you guys what it turns out like once it's done.

[mr_will]

my modified romy hand guard

[Delphi]

nice, carfull with those fingers now.... i can just see the skin peeling off and sticking to the gas chamber on top if you held it on accident....