Type 81

Do people use grease or oil on the rails that the bolt resides on?

It's meant to run in schit conditions, has a gas setting for it even.

But I'd just clean and lightly oil everything with whatever gun oil you prefer and she will run fine. It's an AK/SKS.. "other?" hybrid... if you get one that isn't a lemon "only 2 people so far that I know of on here", it means business.
 
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It's a Norinco, don't expect too much but I don't find them to be too bad. I have a nice Russian SKS and think they are both built well. I have never owned a 58 or 858 so it's hard to compare but for $1000 there's not much competition as far as I'm concerned.

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Unless you got one from tenda, it's a Polytech, not a norinco ;)
 
I wonder how the type 81 compares to the ak 47 from that era in quality. From what I read the 81 is more accurate...
 
Probably true, but to maximize service life, I'm thinking oil is a nice to have.

Ill clean/oil it eventually, Still Allive convinced me to clean my ACR and its only been 2 years and about 2K round. I feel like kind of premature...

trigger snob for sure, lol :p I was comparing it other mass produced military arms...

Out of all my X39 guns, I would say it comes in after the Vz52/57 and my Rasheed
 
Unless you got one from tenda, it's a Polytech, not a norinco ;)

Meh, whatever, same turd different day.
Thanks for the correction though. I bought it knowing nothing about it other than it looked like an AK and it was priced around what I wanted to pay for my next x39 bullet hose.

I'm pretty happy with it so far though, only had one failure in the 100 ish rounds that I've put through it and it was very early and hasn't happened since. Bolt over cartridge feed failure, pushed the cartridge forward and dented it in the middle when it jammed. Quickly cleared and continued on.
 
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