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Posted: 11/30/2005 1:06:05 PM EDT
| Is it necessary (the reinforcement plate). Must I have one? |
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Why is it nice? I was just browsing some AK parts sites and saw it and realized that I've alredy got my TG riveted to the Receiver and that I'd have to undo and redo it. Does the plate make it more (historically) accurate? Maybe make the thing stronger? Do I need to redo it? Cause I really don't want to...though if it's better that I did...hinking.gif |
| It makes it stronger. It's my understanding that they were added to folding stock AKs because the receiver can eventually bend where it meet the PG when the gun is fired with the stock folded on a 1.0mm receiver. It does add a more solid feel too, IMO. I was just looking at those photos that Stottman had posted from the Kalashnikov museum exhibit and it looks like the Poles and Russians had the reinforcement plates but the East Germans and Romanians didn't.... at least that how it appeared to me in the pictures. |
| It shouldn't be too big a deal to add one later. Just remove the rear trigger guard rivet, insert reinforcement plate, spot weld it, re-rivet in the rear, and refinish. I don't think you would need to remove the entire tigger guard to install it but I could be wrong. |
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