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Title: My latest restore-/26\ 1.5M
Post by: Greatguns on May 12, 2023, 09:17:55 PM

Picked this up as a matching numbers rifle except the mag and it had been crudely neutered. First I cleaned up the FSB to look nicer and was going to make another hunting rifle (which I did do), but then thinking about it being a 1.5M /26\ I decided it needed to be restored. Thanks to Bacarnal selling me the bayonet assembly and a stripped FSB and for Echo1 loaning me his FSB removal tool I now have it back to original configuration. I wire wheeled the FSB down and cold blued it to match, it cleaned up quite nicely I think.

How I received it
(https://i.ibb.co/YbXC142/pix788489973.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HXCSbL7)(https://i.ibb.co/qmJ80gn/IMG-4204.jpg) (https://ibb.co/r5dhbpt)

How I cleaning up the existing FSB
(https://i.ibb.co/Lhb7YY0/IMG-4420.jpg) (https://ibb.co/mF1WbbR)
(https://i.ibb.co/3Svtx2r/Rendered-Image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/2cSXzxn)

Dressed to hunt
(https://i.ibb.co/m00SySc/Rendered-Image-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/422JSJV)
(https://i.ibb.co/hHt1fg9/Rendered-Image-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HYkpdK4)

Finally restored to where it needs to be.
(https://i.ibb.co/Kq6VJm7/IMG-4418.jpg) (https://ibb.co/58TsP2v)
(https://i.ibb.co/SrQrQ7Q/IMG-4419.jpg) (https://ibb.co/M686858)
(https://i.ibb.co/QMhgZyg/IMG-4421.jpg) (https://ibb.co/qphSzTS)
(https://i.ibb.co/FmPjjy5/IMG-4432.jpg) (https://ibb.co/17SwwPr)
(https://i.ibb.co/RQp2Z6R/IMG-4422.jpg) (https://ibb.co/kqgKkDN)

Title: Re: My latest restore-/26\ 1.5M
Post by: Phosphorus32 on May 12, 2023, 10:26:44 PM

Nice restoration. Siminov would be proud…probably…well, I am anyway thumb1

Title: Re: My latest restore-/26\ 1.5M
Post by: Greatguns on May 12, 2023, 10:33:35 PM

Thanks Jon

Title: Re: My latest restore-/26\ 1.5M
Post by: Loose}{Cannon on May 13, 2023, 07:32:48 AM

Nice save GG!

Title: Re: My latest restore-/26\ 1.5M
Post by: Bacarnal on May 13, 2023, 08:14:52 AM

Nice one GG.  I'm weird about things like this, but the last five of the serial is backward sequential  chuckles1 thumb1 wink1

Title: Re: My latest restore-/26\ 1.5M
Post by: Greatguns on May 13, 2023, 09:29:35 AM

Thanks fellas, now that it's done I'm real glad I did it.

Title: Re: My latest restore-/26\ 1.5M
Post by: High Noon on May 13, 2023, 02:58:35 PM

Wow...that's a nice SKS.  Great job!

Title: Re: My latest restore-/26\ 1.5M
Post by: Greatguns on May 13, 2023, 09:36:52 PM

I decided to make a road trip (4.5hours round trip) today to go to a gun show down in Springfield, MO and ran into First Choice. He's seen it up close so you can ask him how close to original it looks.  :)

The only sad part is the matching mag was missing, but at least the mag that came with it is OEM and matching bluing.