So I see bayonet referrences about screw-on vs rivet-on. I can figure the obvious about what/where the screw or rivet is but when were they used one vs the other?
Some of the late Chinese SKSs used the rivet. Most of them used a screw.
It's also only with Chinese spike bayonets, no other countries nor the Chinese blade bayonets used rivets.
Was is only certain factorys or certain serial#'s that had the rivets vs the screws or just random on the later guns?
No they are seen on certain years at certain factories. The riveted bayonet is a very late feature on n SKS, only seen after year 25 or so. For example in the arsenal /416\ photos below you can see that years 17 & 18 are screws vs 27, 28, & 29 which are all riveted. Obviously a change there. When you look at /26\ production, they used screws all through the entire (year 26) production run. I guess it just depende on what subcomponents the factory was set up to use.
One other thing: the removable riveted bayonet (like those seen in the SKS30) while prevalent in the commercial imports, I have not seen in any original military factory production run. thumb1
Year 17:
(https://i.ibb.co/XDwPpBL/1729873-right-front.jpg)
Year 18:
(https://i.ibb.co/HH9BvGP/18023057-right-front.jpg)
Year 27:
(https://i.ibb.co/gzHMTvc/27028304-right-front.jpg)
Year 28:
(https://i.ibb.co/MCM96tx/28005540-right-front.jpg)
Year 29:
(https://i.ibb.co/HY3BS9T/29003029-right-front.jpg)
Nice recap, RM.
Awesome! Thanks.
Quote from: Matchka on May 10, 2022, 07:06:19 PM
Nice recap, RM.
Jedi Joe-da. So much knowledge, he has.
Did anyone notice that 4 of the 5 pics have the bayonets upside-down? :P rofl
Quote from: Greatguns on May 24, 2022, 11:49:54 AM
Did anyone notice that 4 of the 5 pics have the bayonets upside-down? :P rofl
Yep! chuckles1 thumb1 chuckles1
firstchoice
Laugh. I didn’t. Don’t normally look for it. :P
I will say this, that year 28 gun is in a German museum somewhere. Doesn’t say much for their curator! :o