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Posted: 7/26/2006 10:05:51 AM EDT
| I was wondering how hard it would be to have the detent pin installed. If it matters any, it is a Romanian 22mm sight. I had a less that competent gunsmith install it (the pins that are suppose to hold the sight on are absent, just two holes under and one above the barrel in the sight) if that matters as well. I essentially have no idea how the front sight is fixed on the barrel, and I had to use Locktight (blue) to get the brake to stay on. Is it worth going trhough the trouble to get the detent pin installed? |
rrc870, For a SAR-1, yes. But a SAR-1 does not use a Romanian 22mm threaded FSB. BeAsT762, Is this on a SAR-2/WASR-2 or SAR-3/WASR-3 type rifle? If so then there is no front pin to knock out as on a SAR-1 as far as I know. Not positive, but I believe if it is a Romanian 22mm AK-74 FSB the detent pin and spring go in from the rear and are then held in by a pin or rivet. At the front the pin is held in by the treads if I remember correctly. This is a picture of a 22mm FSB, probably marked with a 4/2.  This should be the correct plunger and spring for the above pictured FSB. This may be the correct pin for the rear of the FSB (not positive) You could probably make one along with the detent pin and find a spring that would work. |
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Hmmm. Don't know how he made the FSB tight on the barrel? Can you ask him? Perhaps it's not irreversable. Anyway, you have to drill the holes at the botom of the FSB, and put in pins, and peen them to tighten it. It's not really hard, if you can hold the barrel secure, and level. And supported, so as to not stress it when you hammer the pins. The pins can be made with the shanks of drill bits. Or, you can always send your rifle to a competent gunsmith and let them do it. Lots of folks do that. |
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Surf99 is correct on putting the lower pins in. Drill press, a vise clamped to the table of the drill press to hold the barrel level and a second person to support the rest of the rifle. Good drill bit to drill the correct diameter holes through the bottom of the FSB where there should be two pilot holes. Then you drive in the two lower pins which can be made out of drill shank or dowel pins you can probably get from ACE hardware. The detent pin goes in easily from the rear of the FSB, then the spring which you and then the crosspin to keep them from falling out. The muzzle device can also be semi-permanently secured with silver-solder and a mapp gas torch. The detent pin is just a dowel pin for these I believe of correct length and diameter. No cutouts for a crosspin as in the SAR-1 type. |
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