sks magazine large pin type question.
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Bubba Yugga
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Go to your next local gun show and buy another magazine with what you like.
I doubt you'll find rework worth it.
I doubt you'll find rework worth it.
gewehr76
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Just wait until it brakes off. Mine broke off and left 3/8 diameter hole in the floor of the mag. I just reused the same plug and flared the ends to fit it tight. Its a bit lose in the mag , but its permanent and not going anywhere.
I think it's technically illegal to inpin your magazine even if going to be repinned unless you are a licenced gun Smith.
Take the advice of the previous poster and buy another aftermarket magazine either original or new production to fit the bill as needed. For your next SKS check the mag to see it's the small pin. Other than being ugly and overbearingly big the pins do not interfere with the gun in anyway.
Take the advice of the previous poster and buy another aftermarket magazine either original or new production to fit the bill as needed. For your next SKS check the mag to see it's the small pin. Other than being ugly and overbearingly big the pins do not interfere with the gun in anyway.
you can buy new "scrubbed, or no numbers" sks mags at some of gun shops that specialize in sks sales. These are usually of chinese origin
I picked one up that was internally pinned(pin welded to the follower) for about $25. The weld and pin are very unobtrusive. Will need to be fitted to your rifle , 10 min job .
Some of those franken pinned mags are nothing short of a butcher job , globs of weld half ground off and bbq paint
I picked one up that was internally pinned(pin welded to the follower) for about $25. The weld and pin are very unobtrusive. Will need to be fitted to your rifle , 10 min job .
Some of those franken pinned mags are nothing short of a butcher job , globs of weld half ground off and bbq paint
gewehr76
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Never heard of this thing? where is this information coming from? and what is your source of information on this.
Please share.
If yoyou inpin your magazine you are in possession of a prohibited device. You cannot modify your firearm to make it prohibited as far as I know. Unless your licenced to work on prhibted parts your running risk of "The Tyranny"
Ask the CFO I just don't recommend it as standard practice
I'm not agreeing with the overbearing Nanny State. Just saying modifying your mags is against the law if your pin falls out repin but how not sure of technicalities on that. Generally they should not just fall out.
Bubba Yugga
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I'm sure the Crown and His Honour are reasonable folk.
Scenario one: An unpinned magazine buried in a bin of "in-work" gun parts in the corner of your workshop.
Scenario two: An unpinned magazine in your jacket pocket (and no loose pin nearby) that happens to fit the rifle you're currently plinking with at the sandpit.
Which do you think they are likely to interpret as having criminal intent?
If your pin falls out, secure the mag and pin in a container and do everything reasonably possible to make it obvious that it's been removed from use pending repair.
Just my two cents (which nowadays in Canada rounds down to bugger all).
Scenario one: An unpinned magazine buried in a bin of "in-work" gun parts in the corner of your workshop.
Scenario two: An unpinned magazine in your jacket pocket (and no loose pin nearby) that happens to fit the rifle you're currently plinking with at the sandpit.
Which do you think they are likely to interpret as having criminal intent?
If your pin falls out, secure the mag and pin in a container and do everything reasonably possible to make it obvious that it's been removed from use pending repair.
Just my two cents (which nowadays in Canada rounds down to bugger all).
I have had two separate pins fall off. One was a spot welded lug inside the magazine, I just drilled a hole in the lug and riveted it into the mag using the hole left where the spot weld broke.
Second one the pin fell out of the follower. It was done tastefully with no weld, it was just press fit into a hole in the follower. I didn't even know it had fallen out, I was fondling it on the couch one night and noticed I could push the follower down pretty far. I fixed that one with a piece of 5/8" rod in the bottom of the mag, I attached it with JB weld and clamped it down while curing.
Both times I removed the mags from the gun until they were fixed. What else are we to do if the mags break? Call the police and turn in the gun? Remove it from the gun and throw it in the bush?
Phil, I hope you don't have a 1022, you would be going nuts.
If it's as you said frankenpined then it's going to have a huge weld on the bottom . as someone else said go get another mag and use it . keep the old one. it will have a huge hole in the bottom from the welding job . or do what you want.
PinkyPlinker
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The mag follower pinned ones are very prone to the pin falling out.
Bubba Yugga
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I tack weld a bit of a fillet where the pin meets the underside of the follower, and reblue.
It'll never let go.
