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Posted: 6/18/2016 6:41:25 PM EDT
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So I wanted to change my MAK 90 a bit, and add a AK brake. The threads were ground off. I also wanted to add a Bayo lug/Cleaning rod holder to the front sight base as well. So i buy a Used Bulgy FSB and a precede to add it to my AK on a Sat using a Press we have at work... Change your own FSB they said..... It would be easy, they said...
Well I went a bit too far and I bent the Barrel.  " />
So now what....??? So I send it off to Meridian Ordnance after Mike, the owner, tells me hes seen some badly bent barrels and should be able to help me. He was able to straighten out the barrel, and their was enough meat to thread the barrel to 1/28" RH and put my Bulgy FSB on. So I ordered a 1/28" RH AK brake from CNC warrior and with Mikes Help I went from this To this So if you are looking for a Good AK Smith, then Mike at Meridian Ordnance is good to go in my book. So take a tip from your Ole' Uncle Harv... if you try it your self and fail... you have a back up... 
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Nice! That is pretty hard core you really got on that girl haha.. Glad he fixed her up..my brother Inlaw and I pushed the pins out of a early production dmr from rifle dynamics built on a saiga 308 rifle. The front sight tower was kick pretty far to the right. So much so that you were about 8 in left at 100 when the pin was maxed out. We pushed the pins out and hours later a cutting torch and cheater bars.....couldn't get it lined up... We were about to wrap a chain on it and use the trator when.... I took a breath... Used my brain and called rifle dynamics.... I got this gun second hand and it was a early production... They called me back and they didn't have records of it being there's..... But but a smith there remembers it....needless to say that was a year ago and it is still there so I am assuming it musta been a bitch haha... Hopefully some day it will return hahah....
Anyways nice ak looks good... And thumbs up to the ak smith.... 
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Wow, OP you must be a pretty dang strong dude to bend that barrel, holy cow...
FYI to all reading, you don't need to remove the FSB on a de-fanged MAK to get the barrel threaded, no gunsmith needed either, CNC Warrior sells a kit to do it yourself in 1/2x28, it's super easy to do. Or just borrow tools from Nictra. 
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Yeah, I used the press at work in our Maint shop... I think the Bulgy FSB was a little undersized and when I was hitting the foot switch to bring the two holes in line, it hung up on the larger diameter shoulder and I thought I could push it down a Hair more...
Originally that's what I was going to do, and I bought a 1/14mm LH die to thread it, but their was not a enough metal, So I bought a 1/28" RH die but then I screwed the Pooch on replacing the FSB, so then it was time to cut my losses and let a pro take over. |
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