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Update on my AMD65

Rifle was originally sold to me with a broken barrel pin. Barrel pin was also oversize and the front trunnion holes were egged out. Looks like time to buy a new trunnion.


That sucks, trunnions are about 1/3 the price of a kit. On the 3 I've built so far I egged out the trunnion on 2 of them. Fixed one by drilling oversize, the latest one I just tore back down and ordered a virgin trunnion. The barrel pin had good contact and was a nice press fit but man that hole was ugly...
 
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That sucks, trunnions are about 1/3 the price of a kit. On the 3 I've built so far I egged out the trunnion on 2 of them. Fixed one by drilling oversize, the latest one I just tore back down and ordered a virgin trunnion. The barrel pin had good contact and was a nice press fit but man that hole was ugly...
The trunnion on the rifle had already been drilled oversize, so there was no saving the trunnion. I ended up ordering a new Polish trunnion from AK-Builder, which ran me $72 (not bad). Ultimately I learned my lesson to not **** with cheap AKs. It costs just as much to fix a garbage AK as it does to get a good one in the first place.
 
The trunnion on the rifle had already been drilled oversize, so there was no saving the trunnion. I ended up ordering a new Polish trunnion from AK-Builder, which ran me $72 (not bad). Ultimately I learned my lesson to not **** with cheap AKs. It costs just as much to fix a garbage AK as it does to get a good one in the first place.
I’ve got a trunnion for you Home boy prices of course
 
The trunnion on the rifle had already been drilled oversize, so there was no saving the trunnion. I ended up ordering a new Polish trunnion from AK-Builder, which ran me $72 (not bad). Ultimately I learned my lesson to not **** with cheap AKs. It costs just as much to fix a garbage AK as it does to get a good one in the first place.

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Dagnabbit! Where you been at?
My quest for a trunnion was a comedy of errors. By this point, the AMD is going to be as much Circle 11 as it is FEG
Dude for some reason I wasn’t getting alerts for the thread? Sometimes the ones I’ve created have done that. Ahhh well hey if you or anyone else ever needs a trunnion I gots one haha. I’m gonna have to go back and catch up
 
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