biermkr
Ultimate Member
Interested in borrowing, renting, or buying: dies, jigs, and rivet tooling.
Yeah, just be careful not to bend any pins when populating your barrelThere's lots of members here with all the tooling needed to build it. You'll have to do the actual labor, so there are no legal gray areas crossed into, but I bet you'd be able to get it done without paying a smith.
I have gauges and a press if anyone wants to use them (annapolis area).Mods,let me know if this should be posted somewhere else (AK build??)
I have a press and flat bending jig. Others have rivet tools etc. Your big problem is trunnions and barrel. I learned the hard way that doing your own builds cost way more than buying one or five.
Should we start a thread for a build party?
I've got all the AK builder Jigs and benders. I also have the spot welder, press, but not the riveter. I'm in upper MoCo and would like to meet up with someone who knows what they're doing. I have 6 kits to build and want to do it right. Some are already head spaced others I'll need to do but don't have the gauges.
I can host a build party.
How long does it take to bend a flat? Might have to hit you up over the summer.
takes about 5 minutes if you have the right tooling.
Maybe for the bend itself, but there's a lot more work involved than just that. Even with the right tooling, especially for a first-time build, look at probably 15-20 minutes *JUST* for the bend/top rails. then there's heat treating, riveting, spot-welding the lower rails, and trimming the top rails to size.
Just taking my time and trying to do things in the proper order, but i still made a couple screw ups.