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I am planning a custom project for a firearm and I want to add the Ak-47 folding stock that Marui makes for the Ak-s. Now, I am not concerned with the quality of the folding stock (its only going to be a .22), but I am curious as to the operation of it and I want to know more before I buy one. I may buy one without this information seeing as how I do not expect any one of you will take so much time to explain the hinge operation or take a few pictures to illustrate.

However, if one of you would be so kind as to illustrate how the hinge works. Could you perhaps tell me whether I could buy the folding stock alone (without the receiver) and still get it to operate, say, on a wooden stock by attaching something or cutting the appropriate grooves?

I imagine the stock being made of spring steel and when you rotate it it simply snaps into and out of position by the tension of the wire stock pulling in toward the receiver. Am I right?

*FYI there are no legal issues with this conversion. I am a PAL holder and I am versed in Canadian firearms laws*