Type 81 LMG - Be Careful

A whole lot of ban cowards, poors and fudds on this thread.....

And speculating about trunnion misalignment on a product you have never even seen is about as dumb as it gets. Speculation is for "karen's" and "kyle's"
 
Recce21 said:
A whole lot of ban cowards, poors and fudds on this thread.....

And speculating about trunnion misalignment on a product you have never even seen is about as dumb as it gets. Speculation is for "karen's" and "kyle's"
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Dumber to ignore history/experience and give carte blanche to a known shady a$$ vendor. Especially a first production run product that will not be reproduced/supported again out of some factory in China.
 
Nope not at all. Folks are tripping over themselves to get them already and good on them since a proper Valmet in AK goes for x10s as much. Its a free-ish country still. But alas, fool me twice, shame on me.
 
It is disappointing to buy something and then find a problem not disclosed in the seller's description.
 
Recce21 said:
And speculating about trunnion misalignment on a product you have never even seen is about as dumb as it gets. Speculation is for "karen's" and "kyle's"
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Same factory manufacturing essentially the same firearm and coming from the same importer that effectively refused to acknowledge the issue and misinformed on the the scale of negative feedback from users... Hmm, no indicators something can go wrong with these LMGs.
If those LMGs don't have any misalignment issues - I'm glad for folks who bought them. I still want to buy T81 folder, I liked it, but all I were able to handle either had significant misaligment and one was straight but had canted gas block so you need to drive front site all the way to the left just to be able to hit zero at 50m. None option is acceptable for me. Maybe as an engineer I have expectations unreasonable high? I mean 14th centuries guns were already straight... Lost knowledge, apparently.
 
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If I was to buy an expensive rifle and found that it had an extra hole drilled and tapped in the receiver, that the seller hadn't mentioned, I would be quite upset.
 
Recce21 said:
A whole lot of ban cowards, poors and fudds on this thread.....

And speculating about trunnion misalignment on a product you have never even seen is about as dumb as it gets. Speculation is for "karen's" and "kyle's"
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Its a Type 81 SA with a thicker longer barrel pressed in. Plenty of indication the issue can once again arise. Now whether or not its actually an issue is for owners to decide.
 
Horilka said:
Same factory manufacturing essentially the same firearm and coming from the same importer that effectively refused to acknowledge the issue and misinformed on the the scale of negative feedback from users... Hmm, no indicators something can go wrong with these LMGs.
If those LMGs don't have any misalignment issues - I'm glad for folks who bought them. I still want to buy T81 folder, I liked it, but all I were able to handle either had significant misaligment and one was straight but had canted gas block so you need to drive front site all the way to the left just to be able to hit zero at 50m. None option is not acceptable for me. Maybe as an engineer I have expectations unreasonable high? I mean 14th centuries gun were already straight... Lost knowledge, apparently.
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Your expectations aren’t unreasonably high, just higher than polytechs tolerances for this given rifle.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s tons of engineering talent from China. Though something tells me they really don’t care about the end users of the T81 compared to their other clients.
 
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seems like a fair amount of money to spend on a gun a get a problem with it. I avoid china made guns for quality issues that never seem to end.
 
I owned a Type-81 that was not bent and had accuracy just around the SKS mark. I didn’t have to move the sights or adjust gas blocks.

An American made M10x shot immediately afterward yielded awful results. YMMV
 
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