The GSG 16 modification thread

tharkhold said:
I started to shave my grip for a more mp5 look...

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excellent work, i'd to compare your work to the mp5 grip and had a hard time distinguishing the two.
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Curtton said:
excellent work, i'd to compare your work to the mp5 grip and had a hard time distinguishing the two.
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Thanks, its also cheaper(ish), but then i have to find/make all the other conversion parts..

Paul_T said:
Looking good.

Got a link for the rear sight? How does it line up now with the kit front? I wound up shaving 4mm off the bottom of my OEM rear sight and drilling a new hole in it 4mm higher for the time being.
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I havent done sight alignment yet.. but if everything else is equal, I'll probably have to do something similar to you.
 
I had to build up the receiver plastic a bit with JB Weld and left a split for when I need to split the receiver case for the HK style rear sight.

With the 20mm rail removed the sight fit into the groove and with my bore sighter looks very close to the front post for alignment.

I also added the claw mount as the two brass inserts are far too fragile for optics.

 
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I'm still modding mine... and noticed a subtle change on the receiver parts from the GSG-5 to GSG-522/16 that I haven't read on anywhere..

Also, for anyone that ordered 2 HK takedown pins, can someone sell me one? :D

As I understand it, we can keep the front pin, but having it on the collapsible stock with the 9" barrel can be an issue.

Cheers
 
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Here's my build status (almost finished the sanding/polish stuff):

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So on that receiver thing, I noticed that GSG slightly altered the front of the magwell from the GSG-5, to GSG-522 to GSG-16

The original one had a nice finger groove and (tiny)flared magwell, the most recent revisions dont. They simply added another wall, and the original curved one is still there:

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Clearly obvious on the GSG-5:

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GSG-522:

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duh, i also agree, its obvious to you and me but not everybody, you should go check some youtube in the US, they actually like the looks and have no idea why us canadian doing what we are doing.
some of us dont think its ugly but modding cos they want what they cant have which is a MP5, its only natural. we change a VZ58 to look like AK47 but we dont think VZ58 looks ugly.
 
tharkhold said:
So on that receiver thing, I noticed that GSG slightly altered the front of the magwell from the GSG-5, to GSG-522 to GSG-16

The original one had a nice finger groove and (tiny)flared magwell, the most recent revisions dont. They simply added another wall, and the original curved one is still there:
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So can you just pop the outside of the new style off and the original is under it, or do you need to do some carving? I have not separated the halves of my rifle yet.
 
Prometheus said:
duh, its obvious to you and me but not everybody, you should go check some youtube in the US, they actually like the looks and have no idea why us canadian doing what we are doing.
some of us dont think its ugly but modding cos they want what they cant have which is a MP5, its only natural. we change a VZ58 to look like AK47 but we dont think VZ58 looks ugly.
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Because modern gun culture wants rails galore. Personally I don't like the amount of rails they put on guns.

Like car manufactures now. Went from barely putting cup holders, to now putting more cup holders than seats. I got a cup holder in each door ( 4), 2 in the center console, 2 on the back of the center console, and 2 on the pull down arm rest.
 
Paul_T said:
So can you just pop the outside of the new style off and the original is under it, or do you need to do some carving? I have not separated the halves of my rifle yet.
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jah, i thought i had taken a picture of the insides of the receiver halves.. but i didnt. That would have made it very obvious.

You can kind of see it in my comparison shot where i mated the original half to the modded one. You can follow the line from the inside and cut out the excess, and then finish off the rough edges with a dremel/sandpaper.

if someone can post a picture of the inside of the receiver on this end, it's quite obvious what GSG did
 
tharkhold said:
jah, i thought i had taken a picture of the insides of the receiver halves.. but i didnt. That would have made it very obvious.

You can kind of see it in my comparison shot where i mated the original half to the modded one. You can follow the line from the inside and cut out the excess, and then finish off the rough edges with a dremel/sandpaper.
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Interesting, thanks
 
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