AK47 Tools For Use By The Discriminating Craftsman

The photograph above is an example of the tools I sell for the safe disassembly and assembly of all Kalashnikova variants of AK47, RPK, AK74, Krinkov, PSL, and SVD rifles. These tools are the pressing plates, sets of pressing tubes, barrel push-back and push-out tools, and pin pushers and press ram adapters. Just refer to the tab above named “AK Barrel Assembly Tools” and select what you need from the drop-down menu and then send your request to me via Email at Robert dot Forbus@robertforbus.com and I will return with availability and pricing. I know that I should not need to mention this, but I will do so anyway. All of the tools that I sell require a significant amount of force to fulfill their task and there is always a hazard of a tool shattering or suddenly flying from a press. At a minimum please wear shatter-resistant eyewear, a.k.a. safety glasses, goggles, or faceshield when using any of these tools.

Kalashnikova Rifle Dimensional Data Worksheet In Progress – Updated 14, December 2019

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Specification Sheet – All Rifles – 14 December 2019

For security reasons my website does not have shopping cart. Please click the link below to understand the ordering and payment process for firearms tools. It is impossible to maintain all items in stock all days, and many items are shown to be “running” since they are produced frequently. If an item is not in stock it usually has a lead time of ten (10) days or less. If heat-treating is required, an additional seven (07) days is required. I normally use USPS Priority for shipping small items and (up to) $100.00 of insurance is automatically included with this service. If you want more insurance you do need to ask for it and I will estimate the price.

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Parts Now In Stock

Many of the Zastava M72 and M70 rifles are missing dowel pins for the individual blocks. I offer a set that fits the M64, M70, M72, and M76. These are sold only as complete sets – not individual pins. These are cut from hardened gauge pins, chamfered, and tempered The price shipped is $24.50 cheque/money order or $25.54 PayPal “goods and services”. I plan to keep these in stock. Update 30, March 2020. Many Romanian rifles with the sidefolding stock are missing screws. These screws are of special head diameter and shank length and not available as general hardware items. The original screws are similar to a Fillister head type that is obsolete, although they do occasionally appear. The type I sell are modified socket flat head screws that have the head machined and the short length required of the outermost screw, and are blued. The price shipped for a single set of two (02) screws is $6.00 cheque/money order or $6.50 PayPal “goods and services”. The shipping cost is approximately twice the cost of a single screw set, and additional screw sets are $2.00 each ($2.06 for PayPal). You can send me an email message to obtain exact price shipped.  There are some excellent and inexpensive technical references for the headspacing and other critical building/repair methods for these rifles. The original manuals of the DDR have been translated and reworked by Mr. John Baum and a couple I recommend can be found at https://www.germanmanuals.com/manuals.html . I recommend “AK47 Repair Manual – East German Issue” and “MPi (AK-47) and Makarov Pistol Tool Kit Manual – East German Issue”. These are not “how to build” manuals but they present all of the critical points of assembly not covered by other peoples’ publications and the specific tools used – many of that I sell.

Robert Forbus is a toolmaker and a senior mechanical engineer with a career spanning  more than four (04) decades of ground-up design, manufacture, and assembly of machinery as well as plant process systems. I have intimate familiarity with printing presses, finishing equipment, web-handling equipment, stamping/forming dies, and a wide array of other machine tools. While this website is dedicated to the various builder and armorer tools sold by me, my engineering expertise and project management experience is “for hire”.