If you’ve owned or own an A&K Masada, chances are you have had a few components break on the external aspect of the gun. Due to game play, or just general maintenance. I know many have been hunting the web for fixes and or replacement parts.
Such as the 3d printed piece someone has produced, which you could order for a short time from a website that would pay the creator a small amount of cash. Which has also been pulled due to the scare of 3d printed rifles on those kinds of sites.
Here is my solution.
That’s right, I have completely fabricated and formed “one” out of steel. It works wonders by the way, so much that I know I will be making a replacement for my slide release for my airsoft gun using the same methods. It gives me some confidence from now on knowing that my stock should never break.
Now, before anyone asks. No, I cannot make you one. For a few reasons, one is the labour time, second is the material costs and supply. Finally the quality of work, as this is not a 100% steel version of the plastic component that fits the stock, and how I made it so this piece fits that stock, as the tolerances can vary from stock to stock.
With that out of the way, if there are many people who are desperate and very interested, and have the resources, tools and don’t mind the 7 hours of work. Yes it takes that long to produce “one” of these without a jig, or templates and a lot of filing, grinding, dremel work and the use of a Vernier calipers. Or would like to pay a shop to make one for them. I can produce some hand drawn technical blue prints (That are professionally done), for the dimensions, assembly / welding, and a bill of materials that will be required to make the piece.
Keep in mind that this means around 25 people, in need of the piece. Also something to consider for this piece is the cost including the labour. IMO would be around 80-30$ depending on the use of jigs and equipment such as Welding magnets, corner vise, Punch press, or even a CNC Mill. Sadly, I do not own an assembly line
to decrease the cost and make 100 units/hour, and considering a whole replacement stock is around 38$. Your might, want to consider the whole stock. Vs paying someone 80$ to make a piece that is smaller than 2 cubic inches, and doesn’t look pretty from the underside.
Though this is one piece I can say “I am proud of” and yes. I do wish I had a mill, or another 25000$ piece of equipment to produce this. Sadly, I am just a student, with 1.5 years of a mechanical engineering/technologist degree, in my father’s fabrication shop, so I had to make do with what I had.
Cheers, to those that solve issues with recycling scrap or left over material, otherwise known as hot-roding!