Midwestern Shinobi from United States, KS Public Profile

I am shocked how well.this works, and how durable it is. I have a metal-construction folding-buffer-tube adapter on my other stamped AK, and it cost literally 4 times the cost of this. And even with my metal adapter, the adapter is no samller, and no better looking (my milled AK have the nice small folding adapters, as they mount flush, with the thr other expensive parts, to the back of the milled receiver). But this item works and feels durable. If I put.acriss two cinder blocks and put my weight on it, would it hold as well as the metal one, probably not. That is only downside is, that insane abuse of the folding mechanism would cause it to break when potentially my metal ones would not... maybe. But this works, is easy to fold in and out. Best yet, it locks up tight, and with no play or wobble!

This FAB defense handguard-set would fit neither my Century C39 nor my Pioneer Arm's Sporter. Sadly, there was zero way to make the lower handguard fit, even with hours of "fitting" and research on the problem.

The lower guard, like most aftermarket polymer AK lower-guards, has a curved recess/slot in the plastic meant to encompass/fit the lips of the lower handguard cap (on wooden and OEM plastic lower guards, the cap simply goes around the guard, but on aftermarket polymer ones, they usually try to fit the cap into a slot encompassing the cap's lips).

However, even without boring the slot wider, a hammer enabled me to get the cap into/onto the guard completely - but even seated fully, the cap was not back far enough to reach the barrel-cut that the cap locks into place on. So even the flats and slot need to be moved back aput a half centered to allow the lower-guard's cap to lock into place. So, insane amount of "fitting", with harsh to fit d tools would be the only fix.

Unfortunately, the recess (and the flat surfaces the extends beyond the slot) is both too narrow and too shallow for the rifles lower cap to seat back far enough on FAB defense's lower-guard. The slot's shallowness (even when bored out with a filing tool so it clfit the into the slot at all) prevents the handguard cap from reaching the barrel-cut where the cap must lock into place on.

Being curved makes altering ("fitting") the recess very difficult - with the shallowness of the recess being its ultimat