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AK gets too hot!

niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in Ask the Experts
Wanted to see if any of you experienced this.My Romanian SAR-1 gets pretty heated after a hundred rounds or so. I put in a ventilated gas tube to help it out, and it seems to have worked ok. Also, a piece of advice for Romanian SAR-1's... When I first got mine, the tips of my fingers always got burned from touching the screw that goes through the lower handguard. It was in direct contact with the barrel as it heated and transferred that heat to my fingers. To beat this, I put a piece of electrical tape on the barrel to prevent contact.Not much of a question, but just wanted to hear your experiences. Thanks!
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  • ADfreeADfree Member Posts: 188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And to think that I make the effort of wearing a GI wool glove...
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    I've had this problem with all of my high power rifles, even the bolt actions heat up fast if you keep on shooting. What I usually do is take three or four rifles out, put out a dozen targets, fire one gun till it heats up, switch to another, and so on. Or I put it down and start bullshi$ing with the other guys at the range and ogling their stuff.
    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
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  • KadaverKadaver Member Posts: 333 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    yea i have had the same experiences....usually after about 150 rounds of slow fire on my SAR1....Usually i switch to my 10/22 for a while and let it cool down (sometimes i dissasemble the AK so it cools faster.....2 30 round mags back to back using the bump method after a couple hundred of slow fire actually made the inside of the forearm stock smoke.......
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I take a pumper truck to the range and have aburn unit on standby. Check with you local fire department for loan of a pumper. They're usually pretty understanding about these issues. No, only joking. I have the same problem with my AK. I just keep my hands away from the barrel. That glove idea is good though.Vegetarian is an old indian term for "poor hunter".
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  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Quinching will cool off rapidly. Guaranteed, "Charlie" did this when their AK's overheated.

    B - BreatheR - RelaxA - AimS - SightS - Squeeze
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Quench it with Hoppies poured thru the breach, cools and cleans all at once
    Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Try different brands of ammo, or different lower temperature powders if you handload. I shot my marlin 336 .30-30 so much, I tried this and went to winchester 748, really made a noticeable difference.

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  • niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here we are, a couple months later and I think I got the problem under wraps.

    First thing I did was buy a Ventilated gas tube. Cost thirty bucks, needed a bit of fitting, and makes it a bit noisier, but works.

    Second, I noticed that there is a screw that goes straight through the lower handguard. It came in direct contact with the barrel and as the barrel heated up, so did the screw causing blisters on my fingers. I just took it apart and put a strip of electical tape between the two.

    Works great.

    NIKLASAL@hotmail.com
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