OK, so I'm looking at my first StG-58 kit (my first FAL kit, my first
FAL). I have questions, some of them about parts I need to replace anyhow,
but I'd like to know more about the original part.
Questions:
1) What are the threads inside the flash suppressor bore for? Attaching a
......?
2) What are the little notches at the front of the suppressor for? I'd
guess they were to keep the part in #1 from rotating (I am not talking
about the gas slots for the flash suppression, but rather the little
triangular/diamond bits on the end)
3) Why the concentric finned cuts in the flash suppressor? Heat dissipation?
4) The turning key at the front of the gas block labeled A/Gr When Gr is
up, is that Grenade Launching mode? (I'll refer to one of the PDFs online
and probably answer this for myself before I get a reply...)
4) The StG-58 has S and E for Safe and Single (Ein?), and then continues to
rotate around to the front. Now, I don't yet have this assembled, but it
seems to me that unless the US DSArms receiver has something special about
it to prevent it from going into this mode, that this mode would be full
rock-and-roll. Comments? I'm sure it doesn't operate in full auto without a
full auto receiver, but I can't see, without my receiver handy (thanks for
nothing, CA 10-day waiting period), that there MUST be something about it
after it is assembled to prevent full auto, as a function check with the
lower off the upper shows that the hammer, in this mode, would likely
follow the bolt home. Hence, rock and roll without a sear to regulate it. I
must be wrong, can someone show me why?
My kit is in such good shape finish wise I think I will build it out
without refinishing, go play with it for a few months, and then send it to
Gunplumber for a dark park or a METACOL camo job....
By the way, that domestic wood sounds really nice. The side benefit of
spending that type of dough is that you get 2 more foreign pieces you get
to keep (assuming you were going domestic pistol grip anyhow). If you
decide to go Domestic mag followers and floorplates, then you get to keep
the original Steyr trigger group intact. Is that good or bad? I don't know,
but it seems that the Steyr group has more testing than any domestic part,
that's for sure.
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Bill Plein
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