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Posted: 8/12/2005 2:47:29 PM EDT
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Can someone fill me in on the B West AK's that where made in Tucson AZ? The gun itself. I know they are out of business. Good, Bad whats the scoop? Thanks, Sanguine |
No reason why the existing B-West receiver can't be heat treated. No need to buy another receiver. |
You wouldn't heat treat the entire receiver. You would do it like the OOW receivers are done. The trigger and hammer axis holes and the ejector. |
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| I've heard this "soft" BS before. Or that the guy making them was a convicted murderer, rapist, drug dealer, etc. I think it's all BS. I bought one of these from a shop named Jensen's in Tucson many years ago. I'm not sure of the configuration, but I am positive it used Chinese parts, or that perhaps B-West was just the importer. Whatever the case, I fired countless thousands of rounds, never a problem. |
B-West (Jensen's) was both a importer of Norinco and Russian rifles/pistols and a manufacturer of AK's built on a U.S. receiver they made (not really, that is just what they told the ATF, the receiver was actually made by a machine shop). The did not heat treat their receivers. You probably had a Norinco receiver. |
Have you figured out if this is BS yet or did you have one of their imported Norinco rifles? I personally know one of the guys that built their rifles on the US receivers they had manufactured and it is well known that "most" of their receivers were soft causing problems at the axis pin holes for FCG and hammer. The Norinco receivers were fine though, I own a BWK-92 that I bought at Jensen's for $350.00 a few years ago. I have been buying firearms at Jensen's since 1988. Plenty of info about heat treating receivers if you need it SANGUINE but if it is a Norinco receiver it should be fine. Some heat treating info but there is alot more out there |
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