More testing, sucess!!

Post by **Pirate** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:58 pm

I went to the range after work and met Stifeout there. It rained all day and the place
was really wet. Set the gun up and started out with romanian 8mm. ran about 25 rounds
and had a misfire, ejected the round and it had a deep dimple. fired the rest of the belt ok.
put in another belt and had about 5 deeply dimpled rounds that failed to fire. I switched the
gun to .308 and ran a 50 round belt of south african non stop. I found about 40 rounds
of boxer lake city and ran that as fast as I could pull the trigger, no problem. checked the
primers and they show some signs of extrusion, but no blown primers. I think the fal fcg
solved the blown primer problem. ran a second 50 round belt of sa 308 non stop, no
problem. then it was Stifeouts turn to run a belt, worked good also. ran a total of 210
rounds of .308 no problems and 100 rounds of 8mm with about 7 misfires. all in all It
was a sucess and I am pleased with the operation. now it is time to make a few more
improvements and fix a couple of problems.
I want to incorporate a bolt hold open device and need to tighten up the stock and buffer.
Then it wil lbe time to finish grinding the welds do one last test then strip and parkerize the
receiver and parts.

Post by **TOM R** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:14 pm

HELL YEAH BROTHER !

NOW THATS WHAT I LIKE TO HEAR, congrats sir

now let fix some guns i should mail you my junk sas3 lol

Post by **MauserMatt** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:40 pm

BEAUTIFUL!!

I'll definitely be looking for FAL fcg parts. Though i don't know anything about FALs so what exactly should I be looking for?

Glad to hear she's running good Pirate!! Tell us how you plan the bolt hold open! Pretty please!! :P

What's with the tape around the barrel latch? Is it flopping open on ya?

Post by **gunslingerdoc** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:19 am

Tell me about the high speed low drag waffen marked masking tape!

I had to stretch my spring in the latch to get it to stay locked on mine.

Excellent JOB, Pirate!

Post by **Pirate** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:43 am

I need some high speed / high temp tape. regular tape burns after 200 rapid fire rounds!!

BELTLEAD · Post by **BELTLEAD** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:00 am

HOORAH!!! Pirate,you should be a weapons designer.Brian from BRP should have figured out this design!You the MAN!!!

Post by **TOM R** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:19 am

ok now quick patent it and sell it to him

fal lover · Post by **fal lover** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:18 pm

are you using the stock fal trigger group?, i have 3 sets from my fal builds because to be 922 i had to go with the made in the usa ones, BILL

Post by **Bullwinkle** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:28 pm

Congrats!!!

How about a concise thread on the FAL trigger group build without all the coments/suggestions/armchair guessing (which helped I'm sure). It would make a nice addition to the build section...

What say yo oh mighty PIRATE???

Post by **Pirate** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:17 pm

I wil post all the details of the fal fcg as soon as I have it perfected. A couple of changes
and improvements need to be made and as soon as I am satisfied I will post all the details
and possibly 762 x 51 will do dwgs to post also. As with all I have done so far I will post
the other improvements so all of you can incorporate them into your builds and hopefully
have a better more reliable gun than the BRP.
As far as FAL parts go you need a hammer, trigger, disconnector, disconnector spring, trigger
return spring and plunger. hammer spring, hammer spring tube and plunger.
the parts I used are metric, gunthings has a good photo of the parts on his site.