Type 81 SR Serious Quality Concern
- Thread starter MrSkrewuvsky
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Thanks man
Give me a bit, busy with the kids now but I'll post your modded dustcover
Lol. Little butthurt their buddy? Your 40 year old design type 81 isn't any more accurate than the sks you $hit on. Did you buy this model thinking that with a scope and SR designanation you were getting a "sniper rifle"? Haha. Have fun dic#ing around the hardware store trying to find solutions to not have your stock fall off. Oh, and if your $hitty fix holds up, watch the guy at the range next to you with the 1/5 priced sks group the same or better than you. Cheerio.
LordEvilPepper
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Sks is better.
I couldn't even focus on the type 81 sites because of that top bar and my astigmatism...
I found the ergonomics off as well.
only gun i have ever bought that i sold before i fired it.
I was looking at buy one of these because the stock looks a little bit longer and beefer to offset the front, especially without the heavy rifle grenade launcher . That and the option for a optics mount.
I opted to buy a savage 110 tac off another member lol.
LordEvilPepper
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Well as simple as I wanted to makes this all I did in preventative measure was put a simple 1" brass wood screw thru the perfect fit hole just behind the recoil spring:
I'm more then confident now this will take any unnecessary stress or flex off of those 2 bottom roll pins.
Was this unnecessary, YES. Should we have to do anything like this, NO.
This was an oversight on TI and the designers. Nit their fault but hopefully everyone who purchased these rifles will
A) either get a replacement stock JIC
or
B) they have a remedy from the factory for all of us buyers.
Until then I'll continue to play with and use this rifle without any worry
Thats a good solution right there... i would swap that screw for a pan head one about 1/2 inch longer though
Panhead might be too thick and not allow the dustcover to close and 1/2" longer might have the screw pop out of the bottom of the stock
A threaded ### bolt right through the stock with a flared end and the female part glued in place would be a good factory solution.
Is there any reason why they didn't or couldn't extend more meat for the tenon that slides into the receiver?
Is there any reason why they didn't or couldn't extend more meat for the tenon that slides into the receiver?
I saw that in the main thread, they replied to someone asking about the SR designation and said it was a sporting rifle..... is suggested "screw required" but apparently they didn't appreciate the attempted humour.... 
It should be easy enough to improve the connection, but TI seems quite adamant that it's "factory milspec" and as good as it gets, or good enough from their extensive testing including drop testing it. They also claim that after shipping hundreds upon hundreds and only getting 2 failures in the first week or so is quite good.
It should be easy enough to improve the connection, but TI seems quite adamant that it's "factory milspec" and as good as it gets, or good enough from their extensive testing including drop testing it. They also claim that after shipping hundreds upon hundreds and only getting 2 failures in the first week or so is quite good.
I saw that in the main thread, they replied to someone asking about the SR designation and said it was a sporting rifle..... is suggested "screw required" but apparently they didn't appreciate the attempted humour....
It should be easy enough to improve the connection, but TI seems quite adamant that it's "factory milspec" and as good as it gets, or good enough from their extensive testing including drop testing it. They also claim that after shipping hundreds upon hundreds and only getting 2 failures in the first week or so is quite good.
actually, 2 on FB by michael young and wyatt godkins. i cant remember which group cos there are two T81 groups.
I wouldn't worry too much about it, just asked for a replacement for the T81 I ordered a while ago through their service repair email and Henry replied to me right away. They offered me a free replacement with a brand new gun and I can't be happier about the way they treat their customers. Something a lot of dealers simply won't do...Go take out the SR and have a blast, TI is definitely behind our customers.
After seeing that YouTube video showing the two different stock attachment variants, I predict TI is gonna see a tsunami of broken stocks. This would seem to be a serious design flaw.
LOL.
I have an SKS, along with a Type81 SE. Still don't like the SKS. Its a crappy rifle, crappily built for an uneducated peasant army of cannon fodder. I see zero pride of ownership in something so badly built. We, as educated citizens, of a first world democracy can choose better tools. FWIW, the Type81 trigger is way better than the SKS trigger.
If you look at the original SR thread, you will see me getting #### on for saying I woudn't buy the SR because it is in the wrong caliber and the only such rifle I'd be interested in would be 762x54R. I don't own an SR.
I think TI is in for a long road fixing broken SR stocks. But that's just like, my opinion man.
I have astigmatism and have no issues w the Typ81 rear sight.
The Type81 ergonomics are actually very similar to those of the AK, the most popular military rifle on the planet and the rifle half the people on this board salivate over simply because they cannot have one.
Back in the day I had a Chinese AK and so just applied the technique I was familiar with to the Type81 and found it to be so similar that everything just worked. I was pleasantly surprised by my first groups. The build quality of the SE is way better than that of my old Chinese AK.
