R**N
Does not work if you have an Egyptian Maadi safety lever.
This will not work with an Egyptian Maadi safety lever, you will have to buy a new one. In the Egyptian Maadi the shepherds hook goes in while you have the safety in. So to get this retaining plate in you have to remove the safety and then when you try to put it back the safety lever doesn't clear the trigger group so you have to remove that to get the safety back in.I do have this retaining plate in a Romanian AK and it works fine, I guess i'm just going have to buy a new safety lever which to my surprise is difficult to find unless you want to spend $50 on the Krebs Custom one. I might end up just grinding down the safety lever I have but im going to wait a little long and see if I can find a replacement at a guns show or online somewhere first for a little while.
H**8
A "MUST HAVE" item for AK-47 0wners!!!!!!
This plate works better than any of the others out there, I've got friends who have tried the other brand name ones available and 9 out of 10 times they had to be modified to make them fit and work properly. I bought this for a Zastava PAP AK-47 pistol and it was an actual "drop-in" part! If you have an AK with a stamped receiver (which the majority of us do) the hammer and trigger pins just don't have enough metal to lock into on the receiver. I've seen brand new AK's fail due to the pins "walking" out of the receiver and it's usually the trigger pin that fails. The hammer pin spring usually keeps enough pressure on its pin to keep it in place but its been known to "walk" out also. NONE and I mean NONE of the friggin paper clip retainers are worth a plugged nickel, even if they do "fit" there is a VERY SMALL CONTACT AREA ON THE PINS!!!! Even if you don't plan on doing any modifications on your AK and not stripping it down to clean it ( hell, who actually cleans their AK's???) this plate is well worth the money( What else can you buy for less than 10 bucks that may save your life??) just to keep the pins where they belong. There are CHEAPER plates AND more expensive ones available and some are from well known manufactures but I've yet to run across any that work as well as this one does. The AK is one of the highest produced weapons in history and the only thing they screwed up on is getting cheap on the pin retention by using a friggin piece of wire to hold two of the most important pieces of the weapon in place. If your AK still has the paperclip in it and hasn't failed yet it's just a matter of time and you know as well as I do that when it does fail it may be when your life or someone you know depends on the weapon to function. I saw a couple of reviews that were kind of complaining about no directions coming with the plate. Seems that if you've managed to get the AK torn down to the point of removing the wire it should be fairly simple to figure out how this plate goes in, it only fits one way but if you have problems or questions about the install there are several good videos on U-Tube that will walk you right thru installing the plate. One LAST thing, buy yourself a Tapco G-2 trigger and hammer to go back in the AK, you'll have to do a bit of filing and polishing on the hammer and trigger since for some reason Tapco doesn't remove the seams where the molds meet but it's minor work and you'll wind up with a much better trigger and get rid of the "trigger slap" that most factory triggers have. You can find videos on how to modify the stock trigger but the Tapco G-2 is a much better way to do this plus the way it goes together it allows you to assemble the trigger outside of the weapon then just drop the trigger group in as one piece. I know this isn't a Tapco review BUT on my review of the Tapco G-2 trigger I did do a lot of raving about using this retaining plate instead of the one that Tapco makes so it all balances out and the world will not suddenly tilt to one side because of this review. LOL
J**L
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF THIS DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY WORK WITH ALL YUGO M92 PAP PISTOLS
YOU CAN MODIFY TO WORK, INSTRUCTIONS HERE.Depending upon when your PAP was manufactured/imported, you may have a AK safety lever that is intended for the military fully automatic version. You can distinguish this safety by looking at pictures of the AK-47 safety. Basically, the fully-automatic safety has a larger “tooth” to it, which prevents you from removing the safety without first removing the trigger assembly.Another way to test if you have a AK47 full auto safety is simple: open your dust cover, remove your spring and bolt. Now, rotate your safety upward – a full-auto safety cannot be removed. A standard semi-auto safety can be remove this way.Note: It is critical to the installation of this piece that the safety be the last item installed in the receiver trigger/hammer/safety assembly. Again, this is not possible with a full auto safety that comes on some Yugo PAP pistols.There are two options: Purchase a new safety, or modify your existing safety with a dremel or file. I modified mine with a $8 file, and it took about 20 minutes of scraping to get it right.To modify your Yugo PAP full-auto safety, first remove the hammer and trigger assemblies from the receiver, then remove the safety lever. Reinstall your hammer and trigger assemblies, re-insert their pins, and install the Red Star Arms retaining plate. When you reinsert your safety lever you will notice it is impossible to push the lever back into place because it hits the top of the trigger assembly. You’ll need to shave down the parts of the safety lever where it contacts trigger assembly (note: it’s actually really obvious what parts you need to shave when you’re doing the install). BE SURE TO pull the trigger to the rear while checking what parts of the safety need to be modified, as pulling the trigger to the rear moves the trigger assembly further up and allows more space for the safety to slide behind/over it. All told, you’ll need to shave about 2mm off of safety lever’s tooth, just on one side of the lever. This will not impact the function of the safety, and is a very simple-to-do modification.I installed it yesterday, works great! My Yugo M92’s hook wasn’t very tight and the pins wobbled too much in place with even dry firing. Installation of this plate fixed the problem.
K**N
good enough
its well constructed and has a cut outs to give it some flexibility but im pretty sure its just stamped or cut from aluminum sheet so i ended up bending the first one i bought when i put a screwdriver to the edge of it trying to bump it in place. would have been nicer to have it out of some hardened steel or something not so soft. but it gets the job done
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