I made a little progress this morning on fitting the SKS-D to a standard spike stock. I took some pictures along the way.
Here she is in her donor stock. I had to trim a little bit around where the trigger assembly fits into the notch of the receiver.
After that she fit like a glove.
Measuring and marking how much of the stock I will need to remove.
I used a mix of a small dremal, files and sand paper to remove the wood. The square section wasn't to bad, this Chinese wood sands pretty easy. The angled piece towards the front was a PITA. I measured and marked, but really didn't have a tool to make that angle very easily.
After fitting, sanding, fitting sanding, it finally fit in there.
Then to drill the holes for the screws was another PITA. I measured, and measured, and measured, and finally took a chance with the smallest drill bit I have. Pretty much .005 pencil lead. For some crazy reason I measured correctly and they lined up.
Now it was time to find a piece of wood to fill the spot in front of the metal insert. I had this broken beyond repair stock, so I cut the section between the blade cut and magazine slot out.
After more measuring, sanding and fitting, I got the piece to fit pretty good. I left it a little big so after I glued it I could sand it to fit and blend in with the rest of the stock better.
After glue and some sanding. I will sand it some more when I finish the stock and hopefully it we be a little less obvious. Also installed the 3rd screw for the metal mag well. Everything lined up good.
This is how much of the stock needs removed for the metal insert to fit.
I saved it in case I chose to use some of it with glue to blend where I added the piece in front of the insert.
I don't think it turned out to bad so far, and I am sure if I did it again I would probably do things a little different. It really wasn't to difficult with simple hand tools, and a few shots of crown when I got frustrated.
It will work, and I can get this ol girl out of that damn plastic stock. Now it is time to finish the rest of the stock. Still looking for a NOS wood hand guard in amber shellac that used to be all over ebay for $10. Now that I am looking for one no dice.
I have to head to a birthday party tonight so finishing the rest of the stock will have to wait. But I did take a few pictures of her outside after I cleaned it up. Bore was clean after a couple of patches down it. I disassembled the bolt as I always do, and it had some caked on carbon, but not to bad. The gas tube and piston also had some carbon in it, but a pretty clean well taken care of firearm. I think the previous owner probably just ran some patches down the barrel, and wiped it out after shooting. He/she/it didn't pay much attention to the gas system or bolt.
" Well that stock looks hideous, duh its plastic!"