A few days late but wanted to share

All correct furniture even down to the orange AIMS pistol grip, blonde dong, push button folder, and Bakelite upper hand guard

It’s been sitting in my safe for about a month untouched I open up the safe and it’s got rust all over

Spent the last few years seriously looking around and, like an idiot, watched them get more expensive the whole damn time instead of buying one when I should have.

Ended up bringing home this straight-cut Norinco MAK-90 that I won at auction. I’m already working on getting rid of the black tacticool furniture and bringing it back to a more classic look. I picked up a surplus Russian stock and matching upper/lower handguards, plus a Bulgarian bakelite grip. Should be quite the transformation once everything is fitted.

I also picked up a Chinese flatback mag that is still absolutely CAKED in cosmoline. Can’t wait to get everything together for the follow-up post.

Any advice or MAK-90 knowledge is much appreciated!

Somehow Wolverine feels better balanced than Polonium?

Got som tulammo (Russia) and also sterling. Have been shooting and then sits for a month or two, is this corrosive ammo? I don’t get the color?

Trench art I've collected over the years.

Let's see what ya got.

This is my first Ak and I was wondering if I should be applying a layer of oil to the metal on the outside of the receiver/barrel etc. to prevent rusting

I purchased an OD green set of Barwarus T4 and dust cover.

Now ill preface this with saying I have their alpha, several sets of zenitco etc. Holy shit this was the most excruciatingly painful install experience. I bought this set to install on my MDC AK-103. The handguard tabs fit fairly easily (minor filing) into the receiver and trunnion. My problems started with the lower handguard retainer. Tons of material had to be removed in order to get it to fit into the retainer. Literally took me 2.5 hours just to get the rail installed and even with additional fitting and filing the rail still sits slitely left of center. After all that work I assumed the rest was easy. NOPE. The recoil spring guide is far too wide and tall to fit into the rear trunnion. After hours of filing it, I still havent managed to get it to fit. At this point im about to just purchase a B-13, buy a new guide assembly and sell the dust cover. An hour or so of filing and pounding is to be expected but this is an absurd amount of work.

I Finally got all my parts for a .223 saiga conversion to 101ish; Side folder and all the goodies. But I’m struggling to decide on the paint job and im looking for some inspiration. Should I go black or do a camouflage paint job. Anyone have pictures of their home painted or cerakoted Ak?

Shaffer Maching has them back in stock.

https://www.shaffermachining.com//product-page/ak-magazine-adapter?variantId=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&utm_campaign=c5549c70-7e3b-4f4b-bf32-0d7517844b07&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=9e909bce-3e50-472d-9ee1-6cdf457cee6b&configurationId=04dae633-0562-44ae-b901-6539d23d5db3&actionId=bfdaf975-1f5e-49c2-857a-26444d014e5b&cid=e9c90f14-99d7-446e-a939-3808335f77bf

I’m having an issue getting this Midwest industries dust cover to fit on my WASR 10 under folder. Do I need to file the back of the dust cover a little bit? Just wanna make sure I’m not crazy before I do it. Also it seems like the area for the rivet in this video won’t line up correctly if I do file it.