brunowbe
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Issues with Waffen Werks AK74s are generally due to poor receivers, if yours is not an early Nodak Spud, it’s likely the receiver is out of spec and is complete junk.
Check on the underside of the receiver in front of the magwell, it should be stamped there, if it’s not there it’s not a Nodak. If it is one of Waffen Werks own “improved” receivers, it will have their logo/name there or possibly be blank; in which case it was only a matter of time your rifle would start having issues. I do not know if they used any other brands of receivers in their builds, I just know the Nodaks were the only ones GTG, it wasn’t based on serial numbers to the best of my knowledge.How do I tell? Is there markings or a serial range?
What was the issueA friend of mine has a NHM-91 AK. It would fail to fire for 3/4 of every magazine. It took my brother and I well over 4 hours to diagnose and fix the problem. The myth of AK ironclad reliability is just that, myth.
What was the issue
lool. I was going to say that it's getting a little better over there, with the ban hammer being wielded now, but .... no... its sill a rough and ignorant place. I'm going to come back here to the highroad, after having suffered in the wilderness for too long.Think I got banned from there for not being a racist *****
Op - I've had to change the mag catch on 2 AKs. In both cases it was too shorts for the back of the mag. My brother had a piece carp Wasr that needed the mag catch replaced and a slight modification to the front trunion to lower the front of the mag. We didn't want to drill out the rivets and redo it so we made a successful modification.No, offhand. In fact as noted above it seems better if I forcibly hold the mag to the rear. I only have Circle 10 and East German mags. Not buying any more. The mags are almost positively not the problem. This is a 5.45 rifle in case you missed it above. Thanks for the ideas.