Official Rent Quarterbore's DPH AK-47 Flat Bending Jig - Second Tour

[Quarterbore]

Originally Posted by mk1271

Upon Reciving the jig shipping and packing was in tact . Jig did not look damaged.

However the plate with the locating pins sits off center on one end. It is off on the front trunnion side. When you have all the screws in except that one you can see the hole does not line up with the threaded hole , so when you tighten that screw it pulls it to the side a little.

I bent one you could see it was off by the holes on the bottom (paper weight)

ie. mag hole

we had to drill the front pin hole on the flat bigger so we could get it to set in the jig on center, then we were able to get one bent on center

How bad is this and are you sure that their is a problem with the locating hole pins? I have not found the time to take a piece of 1.25-in steel and redrill it to make a replacemnt for the bottom plate for the other jig yet so I guess I will need to fix two of these...

I am curious if something looks bent or why this would be off center now? I bent several flats with that jig before it was sent out of my own plus I did a build party where another 10 or so AKs were built from flats done on that jig.

Please advise accordingly as if the jig has a problem I should have you return it and I will have to look it over and see if I can fix it or I will put it into retirement. This jig at least lasted just about as long as it needed to for me to recover the cost of the jig but man I wish these would last longer.

[falar47]

Hey QB I am working with MK1271 bending the flats......it is not the locating pins themself........it is the last bolt bolt hole for tightning that bar to the rest of the jig.........when you have the jig all together you can see and feel that the plate with the pins is off to one side it is only on the front trunnion side of the jig.......we are going to try another flat tonight and see what happens...........

[Quarterbore]

I see and I noticed that when I bent mine... What I did was snug things up and then use your fingers to line things up as best as possible. The flat does not get bent over this so when I bent my flats the receivers came out fine and the finished gun works great...

[mk1271]

Here is the latest

we are now enlarging the front trunnion pin hole and centering the flat better... I am very happy with the results...this method takes a little longer per flat but it works .... we have 6 flats bent and have 11 more to go.