This post is being set up as a place where I can share my current project... I have hundreds going on thousand plus photos of the project that I hope to crop down and turn into a webpage but taking good pics and documenting the project is taking much longer then I hoped it would...
So, I am going to share my progress here in lesser detail so visitors can see what I did and why until I can get the webpage up....
Following is a brief list of the steps I have completed and the order that I did them...
1. Disassemble AMD-65 Parts Kit
- Remove barrel from Front Trunion
- Remove rivets from Frnt trunion
- Remove rivets from rear trunion
- Disassemble and remove rivets from trigger guard assembly
2. Bent Flat to form Receiver
3. Fit receiver for:
- the front trunion,
- rear trunion and
- make opening to allow bolt/carrier to be added to receiver.
4. Installed trigger guard assembly into new receiver.
5. Set front trunion based on magazine fit to trigger guard
6. Located and drilled holes for the front trunion
7. Riveted Front Trunion in place
8. Align rails to be parallel with rail on front trunion & spot weld them in
9. Heat treat the FCG holes and ejector in the receiver.
10. Press in the barrel
11. Headspace
12. Press in Barrel Pin
13. Install Center Suport
14. Set rear trunion based on requirement for top cover to fit properly (based off the rear sight on the barrel)
15. Drill and cut rear of receiver for AMD-65 rear trunion.
16 SKIPPED THIS STEP!!! Try to install the rear sling swivel
(NOTE: I may skip step 14 on this build as I only have one rear sling swivel and I want to build a SBR from my last AMD-65 kit and that kit I want to make as correct as I can...)
17. Rivet the rear tunion in place
18. SilverSolder extended muzle break onto the AMD-65 barrel
Here is where I am... Note the following are my Next Steps (order may change as I work on this but I think this is the order it needs to be done. My order is based on my experience building on OOW receivers where things were just a litle oversized and I learned that sometimes the order does matter for a good and proper fit!
19. Assemble rear stock assembly
20. Test Fire (any test dumies out there
)
21. Sand, file, or buff out as many "oops" marks as possible
22. Durakote finish in a flat black
Then, next build is going to be a Romanian AKM "G" series" or perhaps a cut-a-way AKM...
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