Well a load of stuff arrived today for me to get on with my conversion.

That’s the Dboys large mags (and they ARE large), AK74 metal body with extra bits, the brown pistol grip, an RPK barrel and cleaning rod (and an AK47 metal body for a team mate)

Now to get to down to seriously converting! Or so I thought!

The barrel fitted fine. Except that the inner carrel rattled around inside so I took the plastic tube out of the SVD barrel and no it’s nice and snug. Unfortunately, the RPK barrel is shorter than my long inner barrel but with luck with the fore sight on and a flash hider, it should be OK but we’ll see later. Also the JG bipod is to small to fit onto the barrel but that can be sorted. The gas assembly blocks fits where it’s supposed to but the hole to screw it in isn’t in the right place. On the plus side, I can sort these problem out a lot easier than using the JG barrel.

The body required some filing down to get the gearbox to fit. The hole for the fire select is slightly out of place so you have to file that down a bit. The rear stock mount was quite tight on the mount so that got filed down as well. The pistol grip required cutting down of some nobbles on the top to allow it to sit flush against the body. Once I did that, that fitted fine and it allowed the trigger guard to be seated properly as well.

When I came to try and re wire it, I found my wire was far to thick! I had 4mm silicone wire and that just couldn’t fit anywhere, especially in to the batter connectors. I’ve ordered myself some 1.5mm wire to see if that works instead but I’m a bit worried with the current it will carry and if it’ll be fine. I’m assuming it will be because the current wiring in the gun is quite thin and has worked so far.

So at the minute I have a half assembled RPK but at least it’s some progress! Even if I wont be able to use it this Sunday! There are still a few parts I need like the furniture retainers for the foregrips but hopefully I’ll get a spare from my team mate this weekend.