The rear end is done!

I re wired the AK today when my wire arrived and it now fits the 9.6v PEQ box battery in the stock with no trouble what so ever. It’s a bit of bodge job inside with the wire so I didn’t get any pictures. It’s the first time I think I’ve played with wire since secondary school! Which is a good 6 or 7 years ago!!

It all works (I tried it before reassembling!) which is good. To complete the front, I’m having to wait until the weekend where I’ll meet a team mate and he’ll hopefully have the parts I need to finish the conversion off by adding the front furniture.

I need to add some weight under the top receiver I think. Add a little more heft to the gun. The AK74 metal body is ok but I have to drill some holes in the front to allow the metal body to screw into the barrel assembly. The screw holes in the mag well are fine and allow the rear part of the body to attach to the body fine. I also need to re drill some holes in the barrel. Either the barrel I bought off the Red Alliance is to short or my bipod is to long, which to be honest, I’d say the bipod is to long as I know the chap on the RA forum made it upto exact RPK specifications. That also explains why I had to file it down a bit at the front so I can affix the foresight and the bipod.

Overall there’s a few gaps between furniture etc but for my first conversion and first time doing any kind of work on an airsoft gun, I feel I’ve done quite well and I’m quite happy with the results at the minute. Yes, at some point I’ll re stain the wood as I think it’s a terrible colour but that can wait for now.