Looking for sage advice from the tinkerers out there

Started by running-man, April 10, 2015, 10:38:15 PM

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running-man

Time for a stupid question.  I'm not much of a tinkerer, I like my guns stock and don't typically do much to them.  I ran across this Chinese Type 56 paratrooper on gunbroker with the following photo:



Question I have is, what the heck is that bent looking thing right above the bayo lug?  Is that supposed to be a pin that's driven through the FSB just like the pin beneath the gas block? Is it typical for FSBs to have two locking pins, one above the bayo lug and one below the front sight?  How have I never noticed this!??! silly1
      

John Galt

running-man
There are 2 pins in FSBs.  I don't know why it is bent over or why it was sticking out so far to begin with.

John Galt
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
Rudyard Kipling  1919

Loose}{Cannon

Its a bent over finishing nail.....  amateurs.    ::)
      
1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms... It doesn't matter how many Lenins you get out on the street begging for them to be taken.

running-man

Finishing nail?!   pullhair1

Think it's likely a homemade paratrooper? 
      

Loose}{Cannon

      
1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms... It doesn't matter how many Lenins you get out on the street begging for them to be taken.

jd?

Well, I guess I'll toot a line of dope and see if I can fit an AR sight on that ol SKS. 
Damn!!  Punch was too big and now it's wedged in tight.
OOPS!!  It broke.  Guess I'll just drive  back out with the pin.
CRAP!! the freakin pin bent . 
Think I need another little bump.  THFFFFFFTT --- ahhhh, that's better.  Now where was I??

Cash softly sings --
Don't crank and mess with guns son,
Leave your guns alone son,
Stop tweakin with your guns.......

jd
I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.  Groucho Marx

Dannyboy53

Finishing nail or brad is the first thing popped in my mind when I saw it...bubba strikes again!

Worm

Home-para, left pin bent instead of cutting flush.

Greatguns

Yeah looks like the pin was missing so they put in a finishing nail. If you get it I have several extra pins I could send you one.

I don't think it is a home made Para though.
My Avatar is a pic of the real "Ghost" SKS in honor of xxxsks(joe). It is a pic of a fully decked out SKS in Capco hunter's kit. This was mine, the only other pic I had ever seen of one was Joe's.

John Galt

I have been wondering about something for a while.  During the Clinton ban I would see lots of rifles with the  bayo lugs neutered.  Where did all of those rifles go?  I rarely see them on GB, aside form the commercial variants with the neutered lug.  Maybe this guy had one of those and thought he would "fix" it with a non-neutered FSB. 

Honestly, where did all of those Hillary (Clinton neutered) guns go?  I don't see them at gun shows, GB, Armslist, pawn shop, or any place I can think.  Someone is buying FSB on ebay for  around $40.  Maybe it was this GB seller?

John Galt
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
Rudyard Kipling  1919

jd?

I've got one of those rifles, but I bobbed the barrel and installed a Prince 50 sight.  Still got the front sight with neutered bayo lug.  jd
I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.  Groucho Marx