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  • buellsfurn

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 1, 2015
    5,951
    southern end of Maryland
    Ill do my best to describe. so i have a Yugo SKS with dark and crusty bore 4 rounds and not on paper bolt closes on a No Go gauge. So i have a used replacement barrel clean nice bore I believe to have come from Brownell's receiver cut in half no bolt nothing.So trying to see if I can check some how to see if No Go with out bolt can be checked sorta half azzed i know. My test seated NO Go in current/bad barrel and receiver held no gauge seated and with blade type feeler gauge measured the distance/gap between flange/rim on No Go and receiver then did the same with used Brownell's barrel with cut off receiver no bolt 26 thousands/hundreds less gap on replacement barrel. Just trying to make sure replacement is a good replacement barrel with what i have in tools etc. before having the R&R done. Thank You
     
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    John from MD

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    May 12, 2005
    22,726
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    Lance, you really can't do what you are trying to do without the barrel being installed. The mate up of the bolt carrier and the bolt enter the equation and they must be in position in the receiver in order to check the head space. Sorry for the bad news but an SKS is not a Mattel bolt together rifle and is harder to work on.
     

    buellsfurn

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 1, 2015
    5,951
    southern end of Maryland
    Lance, you really can't do what you are trying to do without the barrel being installed. The mate up of the bolt carrier and the bolt enter the equation and they must be in position in the receiver in order to check the head space. Sorry for the bad news but an SKS is not a Mattel bolt together rifle and is harder to work on.

    ya I thought I'd try something it appeared with a magnified eye the gauge went in barrel farther then it did in the replacement
     

    starmetal

    Member
    Apr 5, 2017
    97
    John told you right. To further improve on it you should strip the bolt so there is no interference from anything on the bolt like the extractor and then try your gauge. How do you know if you install that Brownell's barrel that it will index perfect straight up 12 o'clock?

    Back when Widners reloading supply was still in Johnson City, Tn before moving to Knoxville, Tn they had brand new Yugo SKS barrels for a very very cheap price.

    I built a Yugo SKS into a 8mm Kurtz and I used a barrel nut system like Savage so I could swap barrels on it. It turned out very well.
     

    buellsfurn

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    Dec 1, 2015
    5,951
    southern end of Maryland
    John told you right. To further improve on it you should strip the bolt so there is no interference from anything on the bolt like the extractor and then try your gauge. How do you know if you install that Brownell's barrel that it will index perfect straight up 12 o'clock? I'm just helping the person doing the work has the knowledge but thinking crush washer

    Back when Widners reloading supply was still in Johnson City, Tn before moving to Knoxville, Tn they had brand new Yugo SKS barrels for a very very cheap price. little searching I've done their 100 and up

    I built a Yugo SKS into a 8mm Kurtz and I used a barrel nut system like Savage so I could swap barrels on it. It turned out very well.

    sounds fun think you bit i like the orig.
     

    buellsfurn

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 1, 2015
    5,951
    southern end of Maryland
    John told you right. To further improve on it you should strip the bolt so there is no interference from anything on the bolt like the extractor and then try your gauge. How do you know if you install that Brownell's barrel that it will index perfect straight up 12 o'clock?

    Back when Widners reloading supply was still in Johnson City, Tn before moving to Knoxville, Tn they had brand new Yugo SKS barrels for a very very cheap price.

    I built a Yugo SKS into a 8mm Kurtz and I used a barrel nut system like Savage so I could swap barrels on it. It turned out very well.

    trying to reply but only got one out something blocking me from quoting more
     

    hermyjoe

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    Feb 5, 2012
    249
    riverdale md
    I got an email from southern ohio gun this week. it shows they have barreled receivers for sks Yugo. 69 dollars, just thinking maybe would not have to fight removal of threaded barrel. I may be wrong...wife tells me I am often that.
     

    starmetal

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    Apr 5, 2017
    97
    I got an email from southern ohio gun this week. it shows they have barreled receivers for sks Yugo. 69 dollars, just thinking maybe would not have to fight removal of threaded barrel. I may be wrong...wife tells me I am often that.


    Guess your wife is right, they are out of stock!!!
     

    zoostation

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    Jan 28, 2007
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    You know you live in Maryland when you read the title of this thread and your first thought is: somebody wouldn't transfer a gun in because they thought it was banned.
     

    starmetal

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    Apr 5, 2017
    97
    .026 hundreds not thousands less gap with replacement barrel. but hermyjoe may have just taken all the guess work out of it


    First place to the RIGHT of the decimal point is TENTHS, second position to the RIGHT of the decimal point is HUNDREDTHS, third position to the RIGHT of the decimal point is THOUSANDTHS, fourth position to the RIGHT of the decimal point is TEN THOUSANDTHS. Your reading of .026 is 26 thousandths of an inch. You can round it off to 3 hundredths. Having excess head space of 3 hundredths is a lot. If it were 3 thousandths isn't so bad. When and if you torque the replacement barrel in that you have you might possibly get a smaller reading then what you have now. I'm just concerned the replacement barrel might not index the gas port hole and sights straight up as 12 o'clock. Know what i mean. If the barrel get tight before indexing to that 12 o'clock position you're good because you can back it off and torque it again and each time will get a little more closer. However, if it torques past the 12 o'clock position you have a more difficult problem to fix.
     

    buellsfurn

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    Dec 1, 2015
    5,951
    southern end of Maryland
    First place to the RIGHT of the decimal point is TENTHS, second position to the RIGHT of the decimal point is HUNDREDTHS, third position to the RIGHT of the decimal point is THOUSANDTHS, fourth position to the RIGHT of the decimal point is TEN THOUSANDTHS. Your reading of .026 is 26 thousandths of an inch. You can round it off to 3 hundredths. Having excess head space of 3 hundredths is a lot. If it were 3 thousandths isn't so bad. When and if you torque the replacement barrel in that you have you might possibly get a smaller reading then what you have now. I'm just concerned the replacement barrel might not index the gas port hole and sights straight up as 12 o'clock. Know what i mean. If the barrel get tight before indexing to that 12 o'clock position you're good because you can back it off and torque it again and each time will get a little more closer. However, if it torques past the 12 o'clock position you have a more difficult problem to fix.
    yes your correct looking at the feeler gauge I'm thinking that's a big difference . and i shared your input with person doing the job today its his concern as well .I sent SOG email if and when they will get more barreled receiver's in that's the easier of the options Thanks for your inputs
     

    lazarus

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    Jun 23, 2015
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    To tack on to this thread, any chance anyone has a set of 7.62x39 go/no-go gauges near Howard county they either wouldn’t mind me borrowing or wouldn’t mind me swinging by to check my SKS? I picked up one of those SOG barreled receivers. It’s in great shape and I just got a bolt and bolt carrier. It closes properly and on a dummy it appears to be good. I can remove the FP and use a live cartridge to poor man check for lock-up...but I’d be WAY more comfortable with gauges.
     

    buellsfurn

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 1, 2015
    5,951
    southern end of Maryland
    To tack on to this thread, any chance anyone has a set of 7.62x39 go/no-go gauges near Howard county they either wouldn’t mind me borrowing or wouldn’t mind me swinging by to check my SKS? I picked up one of those SOG barreled receivers. It’s in great shape and I just got a bolt and bolt carrier. It closes properly and on a dummy it appears to be good. I can remove the FP and use a live cartridge to poor man check for lock-up...but I’d be WAY more comfortable with gauges.
    Not near Howard I have a pair as noted above but I'm going to need them soon to not sure when. a gun shop is going to do the barrel r&r but its not his full time job just waiting for the call could be next week could be next month. I cant find anyone else around hear that will do this work or they never have
     

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