jojo200517
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First I want to ask if anyone on here has actually build a Romanian PSL from a parts kit and a receiver. I am looking at centerfire systems book and a PSL parts kit is $319.99 with trunnions front and rear but it says serial numbers don't match. From the picture it looks like it includes trigger gaurd and trigger parts. Further down the page I see a Romanian receiver for $79.99.
I watched a series of video's on a build on youtube ginsboy2003. The video was done almost a year ago and he ran into a few problems and challenges along the way. He had some custom made blocks of metal he used to help setting the rivets in the receiver which looked like one could chop out with fairly decent ease and didn't need to be highly precise. For setting the rivet heads he used what he refers to as an aircraft rivet set, which was a pneumatic tool that looks pretty identical to my little air hammer chisel with some punches designed for seating the rivets. I didn't quiet get the whole switching of the trigger gaurd instead of just switching the mag catch onto the new receiver. It seems one rivet would have been easier to cut out and put back in than 5.
From the looks if it i'm not sure one could use the modified bolt cutters like many have done on AK builds, but i'm not sure, maybe you could??
From watching videos and additional research I have found out to use a yugo rivet set for the front trunnion. However the real problem is that he had to make the rear rivets on his lathe. Now its been a year so i'm hoping someone can tell me I can just go out and buy rear rivets, as I think this would be much easier than buying and learning how to use a lathe.
One last thing, he mentioned you must check your head-space and insure that it was correct. He didn't show this part but buying the gauges to check it should be simple enough, however i'm completely lost as to what you would do to adjust it if it were off.
I know this is kinda long but any help someone can give me would be appreciated.
I watched a series of video's on a build on youtube ginsboy2003. The video was done almost a year ago and he ran into a few problems and challenges along the way. He had some custom made blocks of metal he used to help setting the rivets in the receiver which looked like one could chop out with fairly decent ease and didn't need to be highly precise. For setting the rivet heads he used what he refers to as an aircraft rivet set, which was a pneumatic tool that looks pretty identical to my little air hammer chisel with some punches designed for seating the rivets. I didn't quiet get the whole switching of the trigger gaurd instead of just switching the mag catch onto the new receiver. It seems one rivet would have been easier to cut out and put back in than 5.
From the looks if it i'm not sure one could use the modified bolt cutters like many have done on AK builds, but i'm not sure, maybe you could??
From watching videos and additional research I have found out to use a yugo rivet set for the front trunnion. However the real problem is that he had to make the rear rivets on his lathe. Now its been a year so i'm hoping someone can tell me I can just go out and buy rear rivets, as I think this would be much easier than buying and learning how to use a lathe.
One last thing, he mentioned you must check your head-space and insure that it was correct. He didn't show this part but buying the gauges to check it should be simple enough, however i'm completely lost as to what you would do to adjust it if it were off.
I know this is kinda long but any help someone can give me would be appreciated.