SpaldingPM
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- Mar 22, 2013
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And one more ?... when cleaning for corrosive ammo, what is the correct procedure? Heard windex should be involved
Is the waffen a "stamped receiver"
And one more ?... when cleaning for corrosive ammo, what is the correct procedure? Heard windex should be involved
I pour boiling water down the barrel, through the gas tube, gas block and rear sight block. Then I clean normally.
I pour boiling water down the barrel, through the gas tube, gas block and rear sight block. Then I clean normally. There's a topic on corrosive ammo.
My '74's. I like both the plum and black furniture. The plum is US made KVAR furniture. I want to get a set of Russian plum or a Russian wood set of furniture for the fixed stock '74.
^ That's exactly what I do. The reason people think Windex works so well is it contains a lot of water.
While ammonia does a good job of neutralizing the primer salts, just flushing the firearm with lots of warm water will wash the corrosive salts out nicely.
I made the mistake of asking my daughter, a chemist what is up with ammonia to clean corrosive salts. In a nut shell she described a chemical reaction between the ammonia and the salts that neutralizes the corrosiveness. I am not a chemist so that is the best I can do in explaining.
You can always refinish the wood. I suggest you keep it. At some point you'll want a wood/bakelite AK. This usually occurs after watching Red Dawn. I have the same furniture and refinished it with RIT Dye and it looks pretty good.
i"m thinking about getting one of these. Do you think they are still worth it at the $800 price point? Or should I wait for them to fall in price?
Interesting, nice AKs. Have thought recently about one, these AK-74 are not the standard 7.62x39 right?