Posted by: Togeneral98
*** sticky *** AK-47 Build Tutorial - Very Pic Heavy!! - 03/11/12 10:53 PM
Ok guys I was asked to get a tutorial about bending a flat and building up an AK-47 from a parts kit...so here it goes.
I tried to document every little bit with detailed pictures of what I am doing and how I'm going about it. Unfortunately this will have to be broken up into alot of posts as I'm only allowed 6 pics per post...
In this 1st stage I am bending the receiver and putting in the front trunnion (phone camera died so I had to stop here - don't want to shaft you guys out of any important pictures!)
So we start with our parts kit and our flat...
Then we line up our flat onto the small dowel pins on our bending jig (the little pins inside of the magwell opening and one in the trigger guard rivet hole - as seen in the previous picture)
Now we bolt everything down (notice that the bolts are not all equal distances apart - this thing only goes on one way!)
Once everything is tightened down this jig (from AK builder) will slightly bend the flat in the opposite direction - this is so that once the bending is done everything will be square as sheet metal will flex back from 90º to say 82º (Trust me on this one)
Ok my 6 pic limit is up....next slide....
I tried to document every little bit with detailed pictures of what I am doing and how I'm going about it. Unfortunately this will have to be broken up into alot of posts as I'm only allowed 6 pics per post...
In this 1st stage I am bending the receiver and putting in the front trunnion (phone camera died so I had to stop here - don't want to shaft you guys out of any important pictures!)
So we start with our parts kit and our flat...
Then we line up our flat onto the small dowel pins on our bending jig (the little pins inside of the magwell opening and one in the trigger guard rivet hole - as seen in the previous picture)
Now we bolt everything down (notice that the bolts are not all equal distances apart - this thing only goes on one way!)
Once everything is tightened down this jig (from AK builder) will slightly bend the flat in the opposite direction - this is so that once the bending is done everything will be square as sheet metal will flex back from 90º to say 82º (Trust me on this one)
Ok my 6 pic limit is up....next slide....