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Post by 762x51 on Apr 21, 2008 23:48:15 GMT 1
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Post by missingsomething on Apr 22, 2008 1:12:26 GMT 1
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Post by 762x51 on Apr 22, 2008 2:42:16 GMT 1
Nice!!!!
How did you attach the scope mount and who made it?
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Post by missingsomething on Apr 23, 2008 5:55:32 GMT 1
I made the mount. I used the original stock fitting and welded it to a piece of 1/4 inch thick flat stock. That way I can take it off and not damage the receiver.  |
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Post by 762x51 on Apr 25, 2008 3:31:33 GMT 1
Good idea!! Simple but effective... ;D Thought I'd try the folder - Going out tomorrow afternoon to burn 100 - 200 rounds.... missingsomething - Is that a FN-FAL HB muzzle brake?   |
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Post by missingsomething on Apr 25, 2008 4:21:14 GMT 1
Close, its a FN Mag-58 break that I had surplus ;D Had a bushing made to take the threads....  A CZ muzzle break on the left. Mag 58 on the right.  |
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Post by 762x51 on Apr 25, 2008 6:59:47 GMT 1
Well, it really does look nice - balances the longer barrel nicely!! We have started making an almost exact duplicate (modified for semi-auto of course) receiver here in the states along with a new fire control group. A large number of the vz. 58 kits were imported a number of years back and except for one company making a so-so looking receiver (and VERY expensive) there wasn't anything to do with these kits but look at them -  With the interest that the kits developed and then CZ started selling a semi rifle, there was a demand for a receiver and parts to be made here. A few receivers did come in from Slovakia but they used a single stack magazine that was impossible to find. So, we decided to manufacture our own. Not having access to drawings forced me to reverse engineer the receiver and that took quite a while. We finally got it right and we're now in series production. Even with modern CNC equipment each receiver takes around 3 hours to make. They are made from a billet of 4140 steel which weighs just over 12 pounds and after machining weighs 1.7 pounds. The prototype (#1) has now had just over 5,000 rounds run through it and there have been only 2 failures and those were caused by a defective magazine. Prototype #2 has had around 1,000 round through it with no failures at all. We really abused #1 - On several outings to the range we fired it until the forearm was too hot to hold, would let it cool for a bit, then start firing again. We were trying to get it to malfunction but it just refuses to...  We made the first gas piston from 304 stainless steel and it actually got so hot that it bowed in the middle but the gun kept right on firing. We didn't find the bent piston until we were back at the shop and started to clean the gun!!! When you think about it, that's an amazing performance from something that was reverse engineered from cut up bits of receiver pieces and one of the Slovakian receivers. Here is a link to some photos of prototypes 1 and 2 and there is a link on the photo page to a build tutorial that I have started. www.autochart.com/vz58photos.htm Regards, Orin |
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We made the first gas piston from 304 stainless steel and it actually got so hot that it bowed in the middle but the gun kept right on firing. We didn't find the bent piston until we were back at the shop and started to clean the gun!!!