Breaking Edges

[Firingpinhead]

I'm gonna be refinishing a MAK-90 soon and the thing has edges on the metal that will cut a person...did me. Whats the best way to break the edges? I been thinking of using a small file or stones....anyone done this?

 

[sloughfoot]

I'm gonna be refinishing a MAK-90 soon and the thing has edges on the metal that will cut a person...did me. Whats the best way to break the edges? I been thinking of using a small file or stones....anyone done this?

Small file or stones are the way to go. I have done it. Black spray paint afterward too.

 

[engineerpower]

MAK's are blued; you'll want to touch up the blueing (which isn't hard).

 

[Firingpinhead]

Thanks,Im planning on using a coating...I don't really care for bluing,and anyway the bluing is terrible to start with and it appears some parts were modified with a hand grinder to comply with the first assault weapons ban. I'm gonna use a flat finish which should even out some imperfections. I would also like to thread the barrel but it looks like they ground off the original threads,I have used a pin on brake on an SA 93 long ago but it didn't look right.

 

[ryan3030]

+1 for stones, I had the same problem with the inside of a 1911 frame and it helped a bunch. Also softened the grip corners on a PPK.

You could always use a "Gunsmith's Quick Blue Pen" afterwards:

 

[Firingpinhead]

I have used that before lol