SKS-FILES FORUM
AK and AR => AK Family: Saiga, MAK, Vepr, WASR, Zastava, etc. => Topic started by: HillHopper on February 09, 2017, 02:07:03 PM
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Okay, Stupid Noob Question alert... I feel goofy for even asking, but it's really bugging me. I've never gotten hands-on with an AK & have therefore never seen one with the receiver cover off. So a few days ago I happened across a picture looking down into an opened WASR-10 receiver from above & saw, as I said in the title of this topic... wires?... Twisted steel wires seemingly kind of lashing things together. Living in farm country, I grew up hearing the saying 'held together with spit & baling wire' & knowing its connotation, & it's definitely NOT something I would associate with the legendary reputation of the AK. So I thought perhaps the wires were something CAI did in their assembly process, but I just saw a similar photo, this time of an Arsenal 106, & sure enough, yet again... wires. That's truly part of the standard assembly of an AK? Seeing them on both a low-end & top-end AK would seem to indicate so, but am I missing something?
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Very common, nothing new... pop the operating rod spring out of an SKS,
(http://cdn1.bigcommerce.com/n-yp39j5/49nwyat/products/892/images/1104/60-01-23__72457.1461848233.1280.1280.jpg?c=2)
Springs in my Vz 58, Vz 2008 and a Chinese Mak90
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/C13mechanic/Vz58%20Vz2008/Ak%20vs%20Vz/SAM_1103_zps592dfc0d.jpg) (http://s1016.photobucket.com/user/C13mechanic/media/Vz58%20Vz2008/Ak%20vs%20Vz/SAM_1103_zps592dfc0d.jpg.html)
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/C13mechanic/Vz58%20Vz2008/SAM_1125_zpsf31d419c.jpg) (http://s1016.photobucket.com/user/C13mechanic/media/Vz58%20Vz2008/SAM_1125_zpsf31d419c.jpg.html)
NHM-91 spring
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/C13mechanic/Chinese%20stuff/NHM/SAM_2148_zpspc719hoz.jpg) (http://s1016.photobucket.com/user/C13mechanic/media/Chinese%20stuff/NHM/SAM_2148_zpspc719hoz.jpg.html)
A fairly decent explanation why thumb1 http://www.ctspring.com/press/2012/03/stranded-and-shaped-wire-springs
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Ah. So these aren't 'wiring something together' kinds of strands but actually springs. Just put in a place & configuration that was looking decidedly unfamiliar to a guy who's used to 1911s & so forth. I'm familiar with the op rod spring on my SKS, but it's more like what I've always thought of as a 'spring' in a semiauto firearm-- tubular coil held in place around a rod. Thanks for helping me get my head out of the box. Or wherever it might have seemed to be. :)