My TAPCO Intrafuse install--Two Qs:

Firstly, thx for your reply. Here's where I'm at with it now:

1) I've slathered my cleaning rod in cosmoline and put it back into storage (just kidding). I don't need it to be part of the new build. I've got tonnes of cleaning rods in the shop, and I don't plan to be living in a bunker anytime soon. :0 ]

2) No, it's not the plug. I just run out of adjusting holes before the butt piece has reached the end of its inward travel. There's still 1/2" of the tube (which I don't need) left sticking out.
I found if I pull down (instead of squeezing up) on the adjusting lever, I can slide the butt all the way in or slide it right the way off the back.
I read somebody somewhere recently who said he smucked a strip of velcro (loop side) onto that tube to stop the assembly from jiggling. I have not tried that yet.

3) Right now my big concern is trying to get the TAPCO magazine to fit into my receiver.
 
Sporting Lad said:
3) Right now my big concern is trying to get the TAPCO magazine to fit into my receiver.
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PM me your email, i talked to people at TAPCO and they sent some nicely detailed pictures of where you need to remove material to make them fit. I can send them along.
 
Sporting Lad said:
NICE! Is that a Russian? What year is it?
Does that rail allow your sight to stay zeroed?
Did your magazine require any custom fitting, or did it slide and clack in the way it should right out of the box?

Mine is a '52 Tula and the Tapco mag seems to be about 1-2 mm too wide for the rifle's mag well. It will enter the stock, but it just does not want to go in that last half inch or so. As soon as it hits the metal receiver it stops--before it even gets near the mag release catch.
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Sorry for the delay, haven't been on in awhile.
Russian 1951 tula non chrome lined. Sights stay zero'd and ive put around 300 bullets down range. I get about 1-2" groups of five at 50 yards.
Magazine fit fine in the tapco stock, but for them to click into the sks magwell, i had to shave the front of the mags similar to what this user posted. just jam them in, take a look where there are scuffs on the mag and file away til it fits.


Nodge said:
Have you shot many different times with that rail yet?
I'm curious if they will hold zero over multiple cleanings. Not too many range reports on them yet.
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I posted a thread a few months ago here. No issues to this day, I really like the rail.
 
Starting over...

I got tired of fiddling with that Russkie, but I found this Type 56 on consignment at Mom & Pop's:

I now have two TAPCO mags and they BOTH fit right into this Chinee without any trimming or other mods--out of the box and >CLACK!<
It came with a blade bayo affixed, but I removed it before I even took the first new baby pics.

Here's what it looks like now:


I have GOT to change that handguard/gas tube, but I'm not about to attempt that de-pinning job in order to reuse the factory tube at the expense of ruining the original handguard. The ready-made sets being offerred now are either too expensive or don't work properly (suggestions welcomed) so Plan A is to find a take-off from an old SKS and do some cosmetics on it. That way I'll save both sets in their undamaged state and be able to return the guns to 'original' later on. But I haven't found one yet...

We haven't had a chance to get out to the range, but I expect this NORINCO to be a fair shooter--the bore looks shiny and the rest of it looks nearly new (as in "unissued", or "hardly ever used"--not "refurbed").
Well, we'll see....
 
I got a spare gas tube i believe from Marstar, or possibly Lever Arms, and sanded it down and sprayed it with a can of truck bedliner from walmart, it matches the finish of the Tapco stock pretty well.
 
bowzy said:
For a bit more snug of a fit, I put a magpul milspec stock on mine with a 0.5" cheek riser.
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That looks sweet did you paint it by hand?
 
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