help question for chinese military sks

[zombiepoo]

I just bought my first sks it was a packaged deal from marstar for a chinese military sks combined with the ati strikeforce stock kit. I ended up having to file the pistol grip down to make it fit snug, then I ended up having to send it back because the 6 and 3/4 screw that holds the pistol grip to the stock is just plastic thread and stripped when I tightened it too much. Now I just got it back and had to punch out the 1/16 pin which i eventually had to drill out and replace with a 1/16 nail due to it not coming out. Now that I have the new gas tube pieces assembled the rivet wont fit back into the dimple locking it into place. Am I supposed to file that down as well? Being new at this I would appreciate any suggestions on how to end this ongoing frustrating battle. Also I have a tri mount that came with the package but when I take off the old reciever the new tri mount one doesn't quite line up with the pin holes do I need to file that to line it up as well?

 

[Chairs]

I just replaced handguard on my SKS with metal vented one and had to drill out old river holding it as well. After put another rivet in and punching it I had to take file to one side to remove some excess off rivet head. After done that rifle fit fine. Now for trimount on SKS you do need to file to fit. But after just putting wartek SKS mount on I'd recommend it over trimount any day of week. But that my 2cents.

 

[sk8snwmx]

I don't think I can be a real help for your ATI stock issues (I've read up on other ATI stocks, and I'm not sold on 1)

but I do have a Chinese SKS and can tell you that it runs awesome! just keeps going bang! love it.