Range report part duex.

[stevelkinevil]

Well took the pup out again today and for those who dont know I did some light polishing of the hammer with a dremmel and a wire wheel and as suggested I greased it with some synthetic mobil 1 grease I had in the garage.
Results were good but not great. Out of the 240 rounds down the pipe I had 1 failure to extract again on the last mag of the day, extracted from the chamber and got caught in the receiver (not stovepiped). So I would call my half hour or so with the wire wheel and the grease a 75% success. Wont be happy till its 100% reliable, and until I find a way to cure the trigger heating up on me.
I am however happy with the improvement and the thing is a blast to shoot. Had a forest ranger (was at the south site) stop and give the weapon a long hard look as im sure he doesn't see many like it.
Anyway not quite sure if I should spend a little more time with the hammer or if possibly the extractor needs tuned but anything less than 100% reliability in an Ak is unacceptable so I shall continue working. I think some heat resistant tape (such as used on headers) wrapped around the barrel where it contacts the trigger mechanism may cure the hot trigger issue.
Thanks to jreifsch80 and Bp for thier support on my quest to make this thing run the way I want. Getting closer.

[jreifsch80]

Ah you shouldn't be having a problem with extraction with an ak I doubt you need to tune the extractor though for kicks pull the bolt and remove the firing pin (saftey first) and see how the extractor holds a round in the bolt face. You might be having ejector problems make sure the face of the ejector is somewhat flat if its somewhat scalloped (the very end goes farther forward that the middle) then it might be striking the empty round too close to the primer and not getting good leverage to properly eject your empties, for reference aks will generally throw empties about 20 feet.

The header heat wrap sounds like a good idea. Another idea that might help would be maybe rubber coating the trigger like with the stuff you can buy to dip a pair of pliers handles in to rubber coat them. Might help a little without feeling too weird.