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<blockquote data-quote="cktad" data-source="post: 1893313" data-attributes="member: 2521"><p>Most of the current kits don't include the original barrel. You have to buy a US made barrel which is not chrome lined in most cases and you have to drill the front sight, gas tube and rear sight pin holes and sometimes the gas port hole . It also has to be head-spaced and the trunnion is sometimes too large or small for the non-matching barrel to fit (yes, trunnions do vary in size). As you can see a non-matching pieced together kit can be a much more difficult build. The easiest build is to get a matching kit that still has the original chrome lined barrel. And remember it does take some special tools to put a kit together as rivets are used unless you do a screw build which is not a popular way to do it. You also have to buy or bend your own receiver.</p><p>Converting a Saiga or buying an AK already built is the easy way to go and really not that much more than buying a kit and the tools unless you build more than one. I have built several AK's from kits (Yugo, Egyptian and Romanian) over the last 6 years and plan to do 2 more from non-matching kits. I enjoy doing it being retired but it can be a challenge at times.</p><p></p><p>Blurplers I sold that kit I had for sale. If you end up buying that Egyptian kit (I did one of those too) PM me for where you can get the other parts. </p><p></p><p>Places to check for kits/parts are Apex, Copes and there is a guy selling mismatched demilled Romanian kits with new US barrels on the AK Files forum for $240 shipped <a href="http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120604" target="_blank">http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120604</a> which is a great deal. He seems to have an endless supply of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cktad, post: 1893313, member: 2521"] Most of the current kits don't include the original barrel. You have to buy a US made barrel which is not chrome lined in most cases and you have to drill the front sight, gas tube and rear sight pin holes and sometimes the gas port hole . It also has to be head-spaced and the trunnion is sometimes too large or small for the non-matching barrel to fit (yes, trunnions do vary in size). As you can see a non-matching pieced together kit can be a much more difficult build. The easiest build is to get a matching kit that still has the original chrome lined barrel. And remember it does take some special tools to put a kit together as rivets are used unless you do a screw build which is not a popular way to do it. You also have to buy or bend your own receiver. Converting a Saiga or buying an AK already built is the easy way to go and really not that much more than buying a kit and the tools unless you build more than one. I have built several AK's from kits (Yugo, Egyptian and Romanian) over the last 6 years and plan to do 2 more from non-matching kits. I enjoy doing it being retired but it can be a challenge at times. Blurplers I sold that kit I had for sale. If you end up buying that Egyptian kit (I did one of those too) PM me for where you can get the other parts. Places to check for kits/parts are Apex, Copes and there is a guy selling mismatched demilled Romanian kits with new US barrels on the AK Files forum for $240 shipped [url]http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120604[/url] which is a great deal. He seems to have an endless supply of them. [/QUOTE]
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