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Truthlesshero81 · Jun 21, 2015

from being beaten against a tree til it disintegrates. :mad54:

I installed a new Tapco trigger and hammer and now I can't get the bloody safety to engage. It looks like its physically too short to click into where it should to prevent the mechanism from activating when you pull the trigger.

I posted some pics to imgur here:

http://imgur.com/a/gKuga

thanks in advance for any help.

kalister1 · Jun 21, 2015

First: I know nothing about AK's
Remove whatever you installed and compare to whatever you took out.
Find the difference, find the problem.

foodpoison · Jun 21, 2015

I had notch my safety to clear trigger

foodpoison · Jun 21, 2015

This help?

alucard0822 · Jun 21, 2015

The Trigger/Safety interaction is fairly simple, but it often needs to be fitted, or relieved for clearance, and not uncommon for safety levers to be defective or clocked wrong. Kinda hard to see what you have going on, but the first pic looks like it is in the top "safe" detent, the tab from the lever should block the right side leg of the trigger from moving enough to get anywhere near firing, looks like it is positioned over it, so should be long enough to block it from firing. In the lower 2 detents(FA/SA) the trigger legs should clear the safety. Should be able to rotate the lever in, and the tab should be able to move past the disconnector(OK if it rubs it), and should sweep freely through the 3 positions without binding against the trigger legs.

rob-cubed · Jun 21, 2015

Getting the safety over the disconnector can be tight. In rare cases I've had to file a tiny bit of material from the bottom tab of the safety to be able to install it.

AKs have a spec, but tweaking that makes it run right that's pretty much par for the course.

Truthlesshero81 · Jun 22, 2015

Thanks for all the input guys. I've been messing with it but no luck. Thinking I'm gonna drop it off at Duffy's on Friday and see what they think.

HT4 · Jun 24, 2015

Note - many consider use of a full auto safety in a semi auto gun (as is the case with your gun) to be a safety hazard because removal of the safety can cause the gun to fire.

friendlyhippo · Jun 24, 2015

HT4 said:
Note - many consider use of a full auto safety in a semi auto gun (as is the case with your gun) to be a safety hazard because removal of the safety can cause the gun to fire.

If one is removing the selector lever, it is assumed one has already cleared the firearm because nobody around here is stupid enough to choose to work on a firearm that is loaded, surely.

Therefore a "full auto" safety is no bigger a risk than anything else.

HT4 · Jun 25, 2015

friendlyhippo said:
If one is removing the selector lever, it is assumed one has already cleared the firearm because nobody around here is stupid enough to choose to work on a firearm that is loaded, surely.

Therefore a "full auto" safety is no bigger a risk than anything else.

I generally agree with you. Note that I said "many," I did not say "I."

That said, why take the chance when the cost of a f-up is so high? We have all seen either poorly trained and/or idiotic shooters at the range. Why not make the gun as idiot proof as possible? This mod takes less than 5 minutes.

Despite my confidence and vigilance in my own gun safety, I will not always be around and I can't guarantee my guns will always be in experienced and well-educated hands. Thus, all of my AK builds have modified safeties.

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