How do the rifles look?
Do you have your Type 81?
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Bloody hell, very excellent to hear!!!!
Happy to hear rifles are good, enjoy.
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- Georgetown Ontario
Sorry for crappy pic but here's a pic of the cheese grater that came yesterday.
- Location
- Georgetown Ontario
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You know, coming here and posting your message takes more time than opening a box... just saying, lol
I think Id get on that, I was lucky with mine but you never know, if there is a problem you will need to get on it they probably don't have a pile of extra warranty guns and lots are sending theirs back
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Got to finally check out my folder today. The rifle is completely straight the folding stock locks up solidly and my 3 mags work just fine. The finish is actually nice for a mass produced military rifle. Bluing is good in all places. Trigger is creepy. The only thing that i dont like is the way that you take off the gas tube. It is so odd and hard to use. But as an over all package Im glad that I finally have an ak47 look alike.
By the way the pistol grip is VERY SMALL. Obviously made for Asian people. Also the stock has the shortest length of pull for any rifle that I own. But Im 5,7 so it doesn't effect me to much.
By the way the pistol grip is VERY SMALL. Obviously made for Asian people. Also the stock has the shortest length of pull for any rifle that I own. But Im 5,7 so it doesn't effect me to much.
It almost looks like they shaved too much material off of the bolt so the bolt catch piece doesn't grab it when the mag is rocked forward. The flat face on top of the bolt in this picture is where the bolt is held open.
I'm thinking it's more likely the bolt catch isn't raising enough inside the receiver. Could there be a burr or something preventing the catch from rising high enough reliably?
It's only a matter of time until one of two things happens. And maybe both:
1) TI decides what degree of bend is "in spec" and they start shipping out returned guns with lesser bends as warranty replacements, or for order fulfillments
2) returns of guns with non-extreme defects are greeted with an offer to be charged a restocking fee, else wait for the next shipment for a replacement, but no guarantees it will be better than what was returned.
At some point they will rebel against returns affecting profits, I'm just curious when (not if).
I also figure at some point they may sell factory seconds from the returned guns batch. "u fix em". Hopefully discounted steeply.
Not that I can see. It freely moves up and down smooth as silk with no resistance. If I hold the mag pulling it towards me like a foregrip it will engage but there is so much play in the magwell that if I don't the mag falls forward not raising the bolt catch enough to engage.
So either the BHO is too short (ie the follower is not pushing it high enough) or the magazine release isn't positioned high enough, allowing the back of the mag to sit too low.
Is the mag catch assembly rivetted nice and tight to the receiver underside?
Also, have you cycled dummy ammo to ensure the bolt is picking up rounds properly? If the BHO is iffy, feeding might be off also?
With the mag out, I'm assuming if you push the BHO up with your finger, the bolt lock back. If the rifle is feeding ok otherwise, a fix might be to add some material to the bottom of the BHO with weld material or to silver solder on a shim.
Alternately, someone could make up a slightly taller mag catch.
The rivets for the front of the magwell are the only rivets that aren't tight/flush against the outside of the receiver. Its hard to tell how it's mating up on the inside but I can definitely slide a piece of paper in between the magwell and hit the rivet. The actual mag release appears to be riveted solid.
Your diagnosis of everything else is spot on. I don't have any dummy rounds to try cycling. I don't want to mess with welding the catch or modifying mags as I feel I shouldn't have to with a new rifle purchase. I'm waiting to hear back about a replacement and will take it from there.
You could also remove the firing pin and cycle some live rounds through the gun if you have no dummies.
