Originally Posted By Hammer in PA:
Quoted: Looks great. I just gone done fitting a bulgarian stock set to a NHM-90 and you are correct that it takes a ton of trimming. Much more than I had expected. Yours turned out great.
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Thanks for the kind comments. I'm amazed at how many buy a new stock and just hammer/push it in and don't take the time to fit it correctly (so the stock sits flush with the receiver). As you know it does take more time to do but the results look so much better.
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That would be me. I sanded the K-Var stock insert part down enough to retain a really snug fit, but, I had forgotten that in addition to the MAK-90 receiver being thicker, the MAK-90 Tang was about 1/8" longer than other AK tangs.
I can't decide if I am giong to whip out a dremel to open up the tang area on the stock, use Brownell's Acra Glas Gell to fill in the gap, or live with the gap. Regardless, I still have yet to screw the stock down until I make a final decision. Maybe I will get lucky and shooting it without the stock screws will "loosen" it up, but I seriously doubt that is going to happen because that stock is IN THERE.
I was told that wood stocks ARE supposed to have a gap to keep the receiver from splitting the stock, but, I don't think the same is required for polymer stocks.
EDIT: After using a heat gun to heat the receiver and back the stock out, I have since eliminated that ugly gap. My only surprise was that I had to heat the receiver up A LOT in order to warm the plastic stock up enough to work it out of there. Afterwards, sandpaper and a dremel became my friends!