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Posted: 5/24/2017 3:31:13 PM EDT
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To be fair to the AK, if you have a welder & a sheet metal brake, you can build an AK Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: And the AK in a trash can contest can be changed to "build a rifle from parts found in the trash".  |
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Posted: 5/24/2017 4:56:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/24/2017 5:13:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOoh that's cool.
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Posted: 5/24/2017 6:19:38 PM EDT
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Red oxide on the upper might give it the look ya might like. Maybe adog leash or bungee cord for a sling. Maybe diamond plate for something
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:27:48 PM EDT
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It's evening now buddy! Lets see some handguard action. LMAO It's time for you to put your money where your mouth was???? hahhahaha
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:30:44 PM EDT
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What I've come up with so far
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:32:20 PM EDT
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Red oxide on the upper might give it the look ya might like. Maybe adog leash or bungee cord for a sling. Maybe diamond plate for something I'm holding off on the paint until the aluma black comes in
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:32:45 PM EDT
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While I'm sure that's a repro, that is a prototype FSB and is worth bank to retro guys.
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:35:03 PM EDT
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While I'm sure that's a repro, that is a prototype FSB and is worth bank to retro guys. 
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:36:57 PM EDT
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It's a repro, I dropped $155 on the damn thing Those late 603 uppers are getting up there in price too. I had 4-5 and got rid of all but one, they are over $200 each now for a decent one. |
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:42:22 PM EDT
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That's quite a bit done this afternoon. I'm impressed, and even more excited now to see it in place! Your build is AWESOME!
My 1/2x28 tap shows up Friday, so I should have a flash hider by the end of the weekend. With the other threads showing up, the cola warrior guy that posted earlier may actually see what he suggested. End of World AR SHOOTS! |
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:43:17 PM EDT
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I don't doubt it for a second. Those late 603 uppers are getting up there in price too. I had 4-5 and got rid of all but one, they are over $200 each now for a decent one. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It's a repro, I dropped $155 on the damn thing Those late 603 uppers are getting up there in price too. I had 4-5 and got rid of all but one, they are over $200 each now for a decent one. |
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:45:41 PM EDT
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Also, that looks like a pretty newish rake to be in the shop... I have a love hate relationship with that wheel style. Or more specifically that wheel style in the configuration I have.
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:50:18 PM EDT
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That's quite a bit done this afternoon. I'm impressed, and even more excited now to see it in place! Your build is AWESOME! My 1/2x28 tap shows up Friday, so I should have a flash hider by the end of the weekend. With the other threads showing up, the cola warrior guy that posted earlier may actually see what he suggested. End of World AR SHOOTS! still need to find the bracket to attach to that strip, may just cannibalize one of the shelves that isn't bearing a lot of weight up in the attic
How are you going to tap it? Are you going to thread a 1/2" square hole or drill out a 3/8" round to 1/2" or....? Fingers crossed on Cola Warriors of the Apocalypse
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:51:37 PM EDT
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Ah, the original dick mod
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:52:45 PM EDT
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Also, that looks like a pretty newish rake to be in the shop... I have a love hate relationship with that wheel style. Or more specifically that wheel style in the configuration I have.  I should have been on it but hindsight is 20/20 yaddayaddayadda
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:57:06 PM EDT
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Thanks! I don't know how much further I'll get, it's been a long day still need to find the bracket to attach to that strip, may just cannibalize one of the shelves that isn't bearing a lot of weight up in the attic
How are you going to tap it? Are you going to thread a 1/2" square hole or drill out a 3/8" round to 1/2" or....? Fingers crossed on Cola Warriors of the Apocalypse My advice. Screw a plate to the grip and then weld that plate or attach it via the shelving keymod. Or better yet, screw the male version of the shelving "keymod" to it and leave an extended tab you can screw into to bolt it tight. |
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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:58:43 PM EDT
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One of the hands wrapped it around a tree last week I should have been on it but hindsight is 20/20 yaddayaddayadda |
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Posted: 5/24/2017 8:01:52 PM EDT
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How big is your spread? I saw several blues and a red in the background of one of your pics. Pretty sure your farm is a much bigger scale than my hobby. I'm 130 acres. With way more equipment than I should have for it's size. But I love toys!!!
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Posted: 5/24/2017 8:15:37 PM EDT
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Sooooo possible bad idea happened
brazed on the OG keymod since there's no more gas for the mig....
It never got hot enough to boil water off the barrel so I don't think I fucked up
Tape was there to keep splatter off from the mig before I realised we were out....that's gonna be fun to get off  
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Posted: 5/24/2017 8:20:25 PM EDT
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Drill a 3/8 socket and thread is my plan. My advice. Screw a plate to the grip and then weld that plate or attach it via the shelving keymod. Or better yet, screw the male version of the shelving "keymod" to it and leave an extended tab you can screw into to bolt it tight. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Drill a 3/8 socket and thread is my plan. My advice. Screw a plate to the grip and then weld that plate or attach it via the shelving keymod. Or better yet, screw the male version of the shelving "keymod" to it and leave an extended tab you can screw into to bolt it tight. I thought of permanently attaching the grip but wanted to keep access to my gas block Quoted:
Oh, so you hire the same caliber of guys I do. HAHAHAHA
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How big is your spread? I saw several blues and a red in the background of one of your pics. Pretty sure your farm is a much bigger scale than my hobby. I'm 130 acres. With way more equipment than I should have for it's size. But I love toys!!! but we do custom hay baling and amateur hour farming the home place is about 1000 acres, we farm about 400 IIRC and no telling how man acres of hay we cover but we did ~8k rounds and 12k squares last year
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Posted: 5/24/2017 8:24:15 PM EDT
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Yeah I know....I was just thinking of how I'd do it but am not too sure Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Something needs to be done to make the upper receiver look more worn or something its the only part that kinda seems out of place. 
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Posted: 5/24/2017 8:31:55 PM EDT
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Good idea on the socket, that's what I'd do. I thought of permanently attaching the grip but wanted to keep access to my gas block Just college kids from the local tech school, feels weird being the boss of guys I go to school with
It's all my dad's but we do custom hay baling and amateur hour farming the home place is about 1000 acres, we farm about 400 IIRC and no telling how man acres of hay we cover but we did ~8k rounds and 12k squares last year1k acre's is nearly impossible in my area, but I've worked ranches in NM as big as 300k acres. I miss those days... I've thrown as many as 3k in a week onto a wagon back in the day we did squares between our hay and adjoined neighbors. We used to and really still do, help each other out. You guys dry up on Hay (round bales) I can probably work a fair deal between us this year. Sent about 50 to the Kansas drought thing a few months ago. |
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Posted: 5/24/2017 8:36:41 PM EDT
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@12k squares, you have an auto stacker... Being in texas, do you have to irrigate all that field land?
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Posted: 5/24/2017 8:46:49 PM EDT
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Ohhhhhh I gotcha on the grip, that's a good idea. I've got a matching piece of shelving bracket I can use to bolt it to.
We use an 8 bale accumulator with a grapple, 870000000 times better than by hand no irrigation here, I'm on the East Texas/Hill Country border so we're pretty well off on water. You don't really start seeing irrigation stuff unless you go further south or west.
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Posted: 5/24/2017 9:01:52 PM EDT
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DON'T keymod go the other way
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Posted: 5/24/2017 9:08:00 PM EDT
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DON'T keymod go the other way
My logic was that pulling it towards you won't loosen it this way |
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Posted: 5/24/2017 9:49:46 PM EDT
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The brazing is a nice touch, I like it.
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Posted: 5/25/2017 12:27:23 AM EDT
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What's it weigh so far? (Edit: NVM, that was asked on the last page.)
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Posted: 5/25/2017 12:40:48 AM EDT
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Ug I finally have almost everything to start one of these and now they are sold out
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Posted: 5/25/2017 12:55:23 AM EDT
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Yeah, they'll have another run soon. Interestingly, the large frame is sold out as well.
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Posted: 5/25/2017 12:58:01 AM EDT
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yea I checked that too
I hope it is just the arfcom popularity |
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Posted: 5/25/2017 9:15:14 AM EDT
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Frequent updates with pictures. Anybody considering making a build thread better learn a thing or two from OP.
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Posted: 5/25/2017 9:47:35 AM EDT
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yea I checked that too
I hope it is just the arfcom popularity |
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Posted: 5/25/2017 10:55:01 AM EDT
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Foregrip attached.
Shortened the grip by about an inch too. It's a hair canted clockwise....perfect for a righty but not very lefty friendly
Turns out my FSB is ever so slightly canted too....just enough for when you lay it upsidedown (on the sights) you can barely slip a sheet of thin notebook paper under it (the left ear) with some catching. Is that close enough to sight in or should I cut the bolt attaching it to my forend and attempt? to slightly adjust? |
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Posted: 5/25/2017 11:34:13 AM EDT
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See if you can sight it in 1st. Had an M4 issued to me that looked like it was run over by a truck; from mechanical zero, it shot a foot to the right @ 25 yds. Still managed to zero it.
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Posted: 5/25/2017 11:48:42 AM EDT
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Looks Great!
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Posted: 5/25/2017 11:49:43 AM EDT
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@GilenusX207 you're engraved bud!
@smokie you're done too bud, not as easy to see now but once I refinish I'll get it there 
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Posted: 5/25/2017 11:52:21 AM EDT
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Looks Great! Quote HistoryQuoted:
Looks Great! I cannot wait for the damn aluma black to get here already......
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See if you can sight it in 1st. Had an M4 issued to me that looked like it was run over by a truck; from mechanical zero, it shot a foot to the right @ 25 yds. Still managed to zero it. |
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Posted: 5/25/2017 12:04:32 PM EDT
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You might want to cut a bit off that bolt and clearance the barrel a bit
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Posted: 5/25/2017 12:32:35 PM EDT
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You might want to cut a bit off that bolt and clearance the barrel a bit |
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Posted: 5/25/2017 12:46:41 PM EDT
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wow!!..its like a old pos chevy luv truck with a 305 under the hood that will run low 12;s.....love it...nice work man!
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Posted: 5/25/2017 1:02:41 PM EDT
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Much props OP!!
I am both repulsed and inspired at the same time.
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Posted: 5/25/2017 2:52:14 PM EDT
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Much props OP!! I am both repulsed and inspired at the same time. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Much props OP!! I am both repulsed and inspired at the same time. Quoted:
wow!!..its like a old pos chevy luv truck with a 305 under the hood that will run low 12;s.....love it...nice work man!  just got back from my last class of the week so I aughta wrap most everything up short of aesthetics this afternoon.
I still have no idea how I'm going to mount a bayonet on this thing though
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Posted: 5/25/2017 3:07:44 PM EDT
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Need a shotgun style mount on the flashhider.
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Posted: 5/25/2017 3:43:26 PM EDT
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Sling slang slung
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Posted: 5/25/2017 3:44:31 PM EDT
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Need a shotgun style mount on the flashhider. |
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Posted: 5/25/2017 3:46:02 PM EDT
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Thanks guys just got back from my last class of the week so I aughta wrap most everything up short of aesthetics this afternoon.
I still have no idea how I'm going to mount a bayonet on this thing though |
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Posted: 5/25/2017 3:57:21 PM EDT
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Can you make a big ugly spike out of a piece of that shelving material that mates with your hand guard? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Thanks guys just got back from my last class of the week so I aughta wrap most everything up short of aesthetics this afternoon.
I still have no idea how I'm going to mount a bayonet on this thing though |
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Posted: 5/25/2017 4:04:02 PM EDT
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Is there any sort of angle iron shaped bracket with those mounting tabs? That'd be stronger and uglier than a flat piece.
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