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Posted: 3/30/2010 5:22:31 AM EDT
I ran across a guy selling a couple AK parts I needed, he also had a bayonet for 10.00 extra so I bought it thinking it'd likely be for a SKS. Turns out its an spike underfolder like I'd hoped. But its very different than my other Polytech spikes. The new one doesn't have a spring loaded hook to attach to the pivot pin like the others I have. The whole thing comes apart without a pin in place to keep it together. It works and looks fine but it would be a permanent installation once I swelled the pivot pin. All the others can be removed from the pivot pin. Hope my explanation makes since. Anyone know anything about this type bayonet?
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| It's just another version of the underfolding bayonet that the Chinese made. I have 4 different examples myself. One is like the one in your pic that is all held together with a pin, the second is like the other that becomes a permanent assembly once you swell the pin. Another is the hook type but it stays together using a very tiny set screw, and the last one is a first generation where instead of a pin that needs to be swelled it's a screw like on Chinese SKS's. |
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It's just another version of the underfolding bayonet that the Chinese made. I have 4 different examples myself. One is like the one in your pic that is all held together with a pin, the second is like the other that becomes a permanent assembly once you swell the pin. Another is the hook type but it stays together using a very tiny set screw, and the last one is a first generation where instead of a pin that needs to be swelled it's a screw like on Chinese SKS's. That's the rarest of all and very hard to find. |
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It's just another version of the underfolding bayonet that the Chinese made. I have 4 different examples myself. One is like the one in your pic that is all held together with a pin, the second is like the other that becomes a permanent assembly once you swell the pin. Another is the hook type but it stays together using a very tiny set screw, and the last one is a first generation where instead of a pin that needs to be swelled it's a screw like on Chinese SKS's. That's the rarest of all and very hard to find. I know, I lucked out and found it at a local gun show in Jacksonville, NC when I was stationed at Lejeune. I also got a threaded Chinese export barrel and the complete trigger guard from him. It sucks because he said it was once an entire kit but he had already parted the rest of it out. 
BTW, the barrel and everything else is going on my milled spiker build, so stay tuned for the pics in the Chinese pic thread once its done. 
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