my dad filled some holes on my kalashnikov (Welding)

submitted ago by clamhurt_legbeard

i have a saiga rifle

its a civilian kalashnikov variant made in izhevsk russia

same assembly line as the military rifles

but it looks like this

in particular notice the pair of black holes on the side and the grey rectangular tab sticking out of the bottom

if you convert to a regular kalashnikov these holes need to be filled to look right

i dont know how to weld

but my dad does

he filled all the holes with his stick welder and i cleaned it up and smoothed it out

then painted it

heres the finished result

like it never even happened

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Nadeshda ago

This just so cool !

clamhurt_legbeard ago

deffo

i dont know how to weld

i should make him teach me

Nadeshda ago

I think you should at least ask, it’s really awesome that he is in your life and you should make the most of it, for sure!

Even if you never do it much you will appreciate the time spent together if not now then later. Also if you have kids this is a wonderful thing for them to see and if you plan on having kids this will be great story to tell around the dinner table one day ;)

clamhurt_legbeard ago

ya he would totally teach me

just gotta make time for it

Nadeshda ago

Hey look what I found a WW2 Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Pilot w/Iron Cross 1st Class consider this a semi-dox unofficial like... hehe... :p

clamhurt_legbeard ago

lol wow nice

thats pretty darn fancy

hey i got my nomex suit today

its great fabric and unissued

but the pants are deffo too big

maybe i can alter them to make them fit

well see

either way the jacket is awesome

Nadeshda ago

So glad about the jacket fitting properly now the pants, urm well I know you can sew cause you mentioned it and I am pretty sure you can darn too :) here is a tutorial if you haven’t done this before that may be useful.

Obviously ignore the hip curve part as you will not be needing that...

http://www.thedailysew.com/2015/01/how-to-easily-fix-baggy-pants/

PS: yip I thought the picture to be rather fancy too... I found a whole collection of these, which is very interesting to look at... :)

clamhurt_legbeard ago

whoa that actually looks really simple

the pockets may complicate things but i already added pockets from scratch on a couple of jacket tops so no biggie

but what do you mean i dont need a hip curve

youre just saying that because i have a testicle arent you lol

Nadeshda ago

Lol, you just didn’t look very hippy like, that’s all I am saying. Relax it’s a good thing!

Спокойной ночи :)