Help with disassembling Double Bell AK74

[Hudson]

As the title says, I'm having trouble stripping mine down.

I bought it purely out of curiosity as it's dirt cheap, and after getting the M4 PDW they also do & being pleasantly surprised on performance, despite its plasticy cheapness.

 

 

It seems to be mostly based on the old Marui style design which I've had experience of for 2 decades now and I thought would be a doddle.

 

However, the one issue I'm having is removing the front section (hop, outer barrel etc.) From the body.

The catch for the side-folding stock seems to be part of the barrel assembly and not the lower receiver as on other AKs I've used before.

 

So when I try and slide the front end out to separate the two halves, the stock catch will stop you doing so.

 

Unless I'm being completely dense (a strong possibility) I can't see any way to remove the stock catch prior to this to allow it to slide out.

I can't remove it from inside, above, below or even by trying to get in the hole for the catch itself and it's got me stumped, as there obviously has to be a way to do it.

 

Has anyone had experience with these before? (They've not been around that long afaik, and they're not exactly seen as cool so I imagine not many people will have bothered tbh).

 

Photos will come later, as soon as I can, but there's not really much to show unfortunately.

Edited October 30, 2022 by Hudson

[Pseudotectonic]

Not sure if same gun but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lWX9jwgNU8

[Hudson]

Thanks but unfortunately not. There's no stock catch on that one, and it's the non-TM style design.

Edited October 30, 2022 by Hudson

[Hudson]

Okay, so I eventually managed to get the gearbox and barrel out but it involved going in a back-asswards way.

 

I had to slide the front end forward as much as possible, and take the gearbox out.

 

Then I could slide the hop & barrel out to the rear.

 

Even Witt that, I still see no way of getting access to the stock catch!

What a faff for such a simple task!

Edited October 30, 2022 by Hudson

[Hudson]