Who does quality AK work?

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Thinking about having a barrel shortened and threaded on a Chinese RPK
for a suppressor mount for my can. Anyone have a smith in mind?

 

[kBk wz. 1970]

Locally, I hear @AllenM here on INGO.

 

[KokomoDave]

Yup, Allen M site supporter and general goodguy.

 

[TrueSeanamus]

Thinking about having a barrel shortened and threaded on a Chinese RPK
for a suppressor mount for my can. Anyone have a smith in mind?

Good lord. Please sell the RPK and buy a mak 90 if you want a shorter gun to thread for a suppressor. We aren’t going to be seeing any more
Of these things so please don’t chop up the ones we do have. Especially RPK’s which are outright rare compared to AK’s here.

 

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Good lord. Please sell the RPK and buy a mak 90 if you want a shorter gun to thread for a suppressor. We aren’t going to be seeing any more
Of these things so please don’t chop up the ones we do have. Especially RPK’s which are outright rare compared to AK’s here.

Meh, you do you.

 

[TrueSeanamus]

Meh, you do you.

You do you is how we end up with nothing but a bunch of irreversibly butchered, once lovely guns. I’m not even opposed to stuff like furniture swaps (please for the love of god keep the original furniture) but chopping barrels that can’t really be replaced is baaaaaaaaaad.

 

[STEEL CORE]

AllenM is where I would go.

 

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You do you is how we end up with nothing but a bunch of irreversibly butchered, once lovely guns. I’m not even opposed to stuff like furniture swaps (please for the love of god keep the original furniture) but chopping barrels that can’t really be replaced is baaaaaaaaaad.

It will wear its original furniture, barrel is just too long to be practical. I get where you are coming from but this is not a historic weapon.

 

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It will wear its original furniture, barrel is just too long to be practical. I get where you are coming from but this is not a historic weapon.

 

[snapping turtle]

Sell it off and buy a Russian American made threaded barrel already tuned to support a suppressor.

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I think running a suppressor on an AK needs more than just a threaded barrel but I am not the man to know those details.

 

[IUKalash429]

NHM-91? Yeah I wouldn't be too bummed about cutting the barrel. Those were commercial-only imports that were never very popular or sought after to begin with. They're still not very collectable today. They featured a 20" barrel, so not quite a legit RPK, and they were already neutered thanks to a ridiculous ban by Bush Sr.

Whoever you get to do it, if you're going to run a can then make damn sure they are damn sure they are cutting concentric threads. And post photos after it's done

 

[kBk wz. 1970]

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You do you is how we end up with nothing but a bunch of irreversibly butchered, once lovely guns. I’m not even opposed to stuff like furniture swaps (please for the love of god keep the original furniture) but chopping barrels that can’t really be replaced is baaaaaaaaaad.

Been awhile since I’ve been here. So this is the first comment I’m reading. Yeah, it’s not “RPK” never was… a “National Match”? What the hell
were those?
I see your point, but why toss off to a Norinco in the first place?

 

[ACC]

Allen does great work. But hopefully he will talk you out of butchering your RPK. You currently have a desirable gun. You chop it and it’s infinitely less desirable.