Any build parties in the near future?

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Originally Posted by USAFGopherMike

Welcome! The build party isn't scheduled yet, but we've been talking about one for some time. Rachel Ray is one of the experts. I like you have a complete kit to assemble. Do you have all your 922r parts?

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Yup Rachel Ray is one of the orchestrators of these things.Should be orginazing one soon.We usualy like doing them in the summer months when we all can get together on a weekend and enjoy hanging out and not freezing.
Allthough with the way things are and with the amount of newcomers who we just dont know ,it would be by invite only.
Mike you could pm me or jreifsch80 aka Rachel Ray to see if we have a clue as to when.

Between the both of us we have all the tools needed and also can do the finish work as well-parking and painting.Might need a seperate party for the finish work plus some way to heat the park solution and bake the paint.Wife gets ticked when I'm boiling away my parts on her stove :)
I would love to do some kind of burner setup so I can use my park pans..I saw in the kit and build yourself section on how Jerry made a setup to cure his paint that I might try .

My two receivers just came in from Nodak, just need to wait for the background check.. I now have two Bulgarian AK74 kits, new barrels and receivers.. I need to remove the barrel components from the demilled barrel scraps and repopulate on the us barrels and then build the rifles.. Now I am just trying to decide if I should send these off for assembly or wait to see if anything happens here. I can refinish these myself (parkerize and cerakote) no problem.. If I got into one of these build parties can I expect the final result/build quality (functionality/reliability) to be the same as sending off to someone like Randy Kline or Gunplumber?

All of my experience is with building FALs.. pretty simple stuff once you get into it. The AKs look like a lot more work to get them right. If anyone is looking to build a FAL I have the tools and know how to get it done if anyone wants to do an AK/FAL build party.

I gotta say through the years and as many builds I have done they come out quite as good if not better.(Personal I think gunplumber is one arogant sob ahole)
But now mind you at a build party YOU are the ones building,not us-we just assist,and give guidance...Now that disclaimer out of the way..

Since building here with the usual crew I find their builds to be of high quality and I haven't seen any reliability issues.Of course there are a few on some "custom" builds ie caliber conversions and blowbacks but thats a norm when doing those.

I would love to do a FAL. one day but I missed the boat on kits and kick myself in the ass for not getting into them the same time I did AK'S.

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Originally Posted by zteknik

Yup Rachel Ray is one of the orchestrators of these things.Should be orginazing one soon.We usualy like doing them in the summer months when we all can get together on a weekend and enjoy hanging out and not freezing.
Allthough with the way things are and with the amount of newcomers who we just dont know ,it would be by invite only.
Mike you could pm me or jreifsch80 aka Rachel Ray to see if we have a clue as to when.

Between the both of us we have all the tools needed and also can do the finish work as well-parking and painting.Might need a seperate party for the finish work plus some way to heat the park solution and bake the paint.Wife gets ticked when I'm boiling away my parts on her stove :)
I would love to do some kind of burner setup so I can use my park pans..I saw in the kit and build yourself section on how Jerry made a setup to cure his paint that I might try .

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In other words FHUGETABOUDIT!!! LOL
I understand and I can't say as I blame you

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Originally Posted by wolf

In other words FHUGETABOUDIT!!! LOL
I understand and I can't say as I blame you

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Nah,nuthin like that :)
Once we get to know you a bit more,and get to meet you at the range then it shouldn't be a problem.
We all have met at one point or another-one member meets another and gets to know them through deaals and such,tells the other guys and things happen.

Theres group shoots,gatherings all the time.Keep on the look for them when posted and just put your name in.the more we meet the tighter the community becomes and more enjoyable :)

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Originally Posted by zteknik

But now mind you at a build party YOU are the ones building,not us-we just assist,and give guidance...Now that disclaimer out of the way..

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It is always assumed that I am the one doing the building, I'd want to do it myself anyway. :)

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Originally Posted by def90

It is always assumed that I am the one doing the building, I'd want to do it myself anyway. :)

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I kinda figured that,just had to throw the disclaimer out to educate some of the new members. ;)
You FAL guys would never let anyone else even touch your kits :) (can't say I blame them) One day I'll get to do one,trouble is finding a decent kit nowadays that wont cost a second mortgage.

by the way if any of you new guys are active on other boards like theakforum, gunco, fallfiles, akfiles etc let us know in case we know you from there

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Originally Posted by zteknik

Nah,nuthin like that :)
Once we get to know you a bit more,and get to meet you at the range then it shouldn't be a problem.
We all have met at one point or another-one member meets another and gets to know them through deaals and such,tells the other guys and things happen.

Theres group shoots,gatherings all the time.Keep on the look for them when posted and just put your name in.the more we meet the tighter the community becomes and more enjoyable :)

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I know you didn't mean it like that , I was just having fun.
On a serious note, I look forward to meeting up with you guys on the range some day soon, I will keep a watch out for a group shoot.

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