Saiga free-floating forend

[heron]

I've got the first half of this project pretty much done. See it here:

http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?showtopic=34485

 

[CYANIDEGENOCIDE]

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[SN13]

Looks good Heron.

 

[Girodin]

I'm very interested to see the finished project. Did you shoot it for groups before starting? It would also be very interesting to see the increase in accuracy that it might yield.

 

[heron]

Oops. Sorry Cyanide, I forgot about that. This one goes with the first page, showing the trunnion as seen after removing the factory forend:

 

[heron]

This one shows how I made the two pieces of angle to fit together and form a channel:

 

[heron]

These two show the initial step in fitting the pieces into the receiver -- just getting the width correct at this point.

 

[heron]

This is a detail of the end that goes into the receiver. You'll see that the inside edges of the vertical portions (seen horizontal here) are chamfered to fit against the angled cut on the trunnion.

 

[heron]

Here is the whole assembly installed. It's very solid.

 

[heron]

These two show how I captured a steel nut for the attachment screw. I didn't want to trust #10-32 threads in cheap aluminum.