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Originally Posted by sukivan
You better alert Mikhail Kalashnikov of how inefficient it is to use stamped sheet metal (rather than machined blocks) for AK receivers. What a moron that guy is! No wonder the AK47 was such a failure - sheet metal designs are clearly a poor choice for mass production. It's a good thing we have people like you to set us straight. 8)
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The AK is stamped and riveted gun steel, not a tin alloy. There is no brass or aluminum in an AK. As I've actually held the real thing, I can tell you that the build quality is shit compared to Western guns, but the design is tough and proven. And that design comes from the German MP-44 and Kalashnikov used it to create his gun.
The bolt is machined steel and very tough and heavy. The steel you're looking at just won't be durable or usable as a rigid structural material. Now if it were laminated with other suitable materials, that is a different story.
But Daes is correct. What you've shown is off-the-shelf hobby parts barely usable for repairing a model airplane and totally unsuitable for a GBB rifle, no matter whether you use it as a structural material or in the gas chamber.
The machining of hard metals required to make this work would simply be out of your capacity as an 18 year old, unless your father owns the largest machine shop in Western Canada. Otherwise the cost to build and integrate an untried design is outside your capacity.
You may very well have a brilliant idea. But face reality and get onto the work of playing airsoft and not dreaming about what you "might" build.
I'm just trying to save you alot of embarrassment, time and money. Take my advice or don't. It's up to you.