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Guys,
I was wondering if anybody heard of smiths in Portland area who could install paddle release on HK91 pattern rifle. I could send it to Bill Springfield, but would
prefer somebody local to avoid shipping the lead pipe
Thanks!
Hey I just did this to my HK91 on Saturday, along with pulling the sight tower off for a Grenade Ring version, took about 2 hours fabbing parts for the paddle mag and maybe 10 minutes for the triple frame. You'll need a bushing and a bushing pin for the paddle install, and if you've got a new eyelet sling bolt you don't need to Tig/Braze, if your using the old one you have to grind off the mushroom peen and then heat it a little and punch it out. Then heat the sight and tap with a wood block, it's pretty easy, basically reverse order with the new one. Drive the sling eyelet back into place and peen if its new and tig/braze if its not.
Hardest part is getting that damn little piece of metal out of the receiver where the paddle will go, I got a little carried away with the dremel and went through the bottom of the sheet metal, had a friend weld a little piece there and it helped lock up the rattle, of course with this you have to refinish the rifle, that's where I am now, sometime this week I'm going to bead blast it and then park it. I'm going to leave it park'd instead of the park/paint like on it originally. All the G3's I saw in South Africa & Iraq were park'd, not one had that paint over it.
Anyway, the only tools we had were a dremel, drill press, calipers, punches, propane torch, wood , and hammers (big and small). Another friend has the blast cabinet and the park tank I'm in the process of building, found a forum where the guy used Lowes gutters riveted and sealed it with silicone, and wham, park tank. If you silver solder the eyelet the park won't match perfectly but you can darken it with other means to match, but if you finish it with Gunkote this won't be a problem.
Anyway if you got any questions give me a call, I'm in Salem as are the tools, let me know, also you got the parts? I got all of mine through Robertrtg.com and they got to my house pretty fast and were great, just fyi.
James
503-269-7139
James,
Thanks for your reply. I've got all the parts except for the bushing. Based on your description it doesn't sound too complicated, though I'm worried a little bit about the following ATF spec on this conversion to avoid NFA issues... I also don't have a place to work on it at the moment, so I guess I will resort to doing it myself if I don't work it out with a gunsmith.
Alex.