Guys,
Thanks for the replies. If I do it, I know that I'll have to buy another kit. I am just trying to figure out whether or not it is worth doing.
When klinton banned the importation of the kits, I bought a couple from Global; an AK-47 and an AKMS. I knew that I was going to send the 47 to the FiringLine to be built on one of their milled, threaded receivers. I had the Krinks receiver and figured to try building the AKMS myself. When the kits arrived, they were great! Unfired! New! It looks like the Poles took the rifles from the assembly line, packed them is cosmoline and put them in some salt mine, waiting for WWW III. The war did not come, but some Yankee gun dealer did and I ended up with them. The 47 did go to the Firing Line and a GREAT Ak-47 came back. The AKMS kit was too good for me to hack up so I sent it to Kansas and paid for someone else to hack it up!
Anyway, the receiver is back, with partially cut stock holes that do, in fact, line up with the holes in the rear trunnion and the trigger guard riveted on with the appearance that it was done by Fred Flintstone.
On one hand, I would like to complete the project. On the other, I don't want to waste yet another AKMS kit on a project that, even it is sucessful, will result in a gun with a weak receiver. I dunno.
mg34ss,
The Krinks were made by somebody in Naples Florida and sold by Soup Bowl. They were regular AKM receivers with the euro rivet pattern. They are marked 'Krinks M97." Later on, complete rifles were assembled and sold by, I believe, InterOrd. They were a hot item for a while. then people started complaining about dimension problens and heat treatment, sort of like Ohio Ordinance Works now.
Drue