JM AK47...(Or...Komrade, use Ak47, to send traitor Squiddy Footy off to heaven..!)

Das Komrades…

Бывший товарищ @deadsquid совершил тяжкие военные преступления. Он обвиняет @friendlyfire в чудовищных ложных действиях. Сквид лжёт, вероятно, сам виновен… и должен быть наказан страшной смертью. Сейчас же хватайте свой АК-47, чтобы покарать предателя смертью от 1000 гелевых пуль…
Byvshiy tovarishch @deadsquid sovershil tyazhkiye voyennyye prestupleniya. On obvinyayet @friendlyfire v chudovishchnykh lozhnykh deystviyakh. Skvid lzhot, veroyatno, sam vinoven… i dolzhen byt’ nakazan strashnoy smert’yu. Seychas zhe khvatayte svoy AK-47, chtoby pokarat’ predatelya smert’yu ot 1000 gelevykh pul’…

Ok, im a bit short on the Ak-47 front, and was curious, so i got the JM Ak47.

For $150, its a cheapy, and worth a quick look…

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First impressions…

Its light.
Very light.

I know AK’s are supposed to be heavy, and robust, but this all nylon construction feels very light.

Good for lugging around, on a game day.
I think the forward shell would benefit from having some ‘no more gaps’ added to it, for some extra weight.

The rear stock is heavier, and has a decent battery slot, for the included long 7.4v battery.

The rear stock butt-plate slides up, to reveal a fully hollow cavity.
With a full length metal rod glued in, to give it some weight,
You could lightly wrap your battery in a loose rag, to stop it bashing around.

It has a functional blowback…good reason to pull it apart, to disable it.
No mag prime though.

The nylon does look a bit shiny and plasticy…a bit of scuffing and wear would help take the sheen off it, and make it look a bit more like metal.

Sights are adjustable for elevation.

The wood is …"OK’…the hanke thompson had better quality faux wood.
the trigger is plastic as well. As you’d expect, for a $150 blaster.

Gearbox and gears are nylon, and the barrel is plastic as well.

Stock performance, and accuracy, is surprisingly good…

Using xforce pinkies, it acheived the previous results.
Ihobby blue packet fared a little better.

With the pinks, i saw a range between 255-290 fps.
Lateral spread was pretty good too… i’m almost tempted to leave it all alone.

Upgrading to a M95 would only result in minor gains…and the stock accuracy is certainly acceptable over 20m.

Magwell has recessed terminals.
Mag terminals are short.

The wood pattern is OK… but definitely noticable as faux.

And, Blowback Disabled…!!

The rear cover comes off normally, and the rear assembly literally falls out.
Cut off the downward protruding tab, to remove the blowback.

Just leave a small amount of the tab, to locate it in the groove, and hold it in place.

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Overall…

For $150, it aint bad.

Acceptable finish, reasonable wood…pretty decent 280 fps OOTB, with good accuracy.

When i get a chance, i’ll pull it down, have a good look, maybe throw in a M95 spring and metal barrel…

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Update:

It feeds better, on xforce pinkies, rather than the ihobby’s…at slightly less fps.
R/min has increased as well, with blowback disabled.

Or maybe it had a big blob of ‘JM grease’ , in the middle of the gearbox, which has now been redistributed…!!

Looking for that white dribble… :rofl: :rofl:

Long barrel on it. 45cm from tpiece to tip.

It has just enough protruding barrel, to fit a hop up on it.

It gets covered with the orange tip, soon to be repainted black.

The mags go in and out easily… i know previous metal mags would crack easily around the lip.

It seems to be settling down around 265 fps after a few mags…maybe a M95 spring, and just leave the barrel for now…

I’ll just pop this vid here for reference…

It is an identical teardown, to the J11 AK.

Which means…easy initial pull down…until you get to the selector plates.

What a coincidence, that friendlyfire got one yesterday.!

I know these are tricky and a bit complicated…i’ll have to put aside some time later, to watch the video, and suss it out…

So, it remains standard for now.

I did fill the upper part, of the front handguard, with no more gaps.

Kept it clear of the rear, so it wont interfere with it going on/off.
The weight it adds is noticeable, and feels better already.

That will take ages to dry, so its sitting upside down and no more firing tonight…

The battery bar in the rear is also magnetised, and holds the battery in place.

Actually…the above photos…

Are really the secret reserve of JM gearbox grease…!!

Gotta store it somewhere…!!

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Bit more work on the AK this morning.

I pulled it all down to getting the gearbox out…and stopped there.

I’ve figured out the selection levers, took them off, and on again…but decided the airseal must be pretty good. 270 fps out of the box.

The gears looked reasonably greased … so i didnt wanna go there.

Just put in the new M95 spring, and did a metal barrel swap.
The metal barrel was cut a little longer than anticipated.

While it was apart, i removed the lower wooden foregrip, and added some no more gaps in there.

remove this allen key, and the assembly comes apart.

Add Selleys, to the bottom and sides…check for touch free fitting…

It feels So much better now…a bit of weight, and not hollow and plasticy.
Not real wood feels, but better…

Anyway, performance wise.

Original o-ring…M95 spring, metal barrel…

Pretty good, from a M95…!!
The longer barrel helps.!

Solid 315 fps blaster.

Accuracy is still pretty good.
You get the occasional hook shot, with higher fps, but most are fairly straight.
Damp Xforce pinkies feed flawlessly so far.

All in all, a decent budget blaster for the price, made better with a few minor upgrades.
I wonder if ihobby have any spare mags…

Ah, ya piked out of the whole nine yards, Beemer. Should have split that sucker open and had a good look. :rofl::rofl:

The J11 is 95% done and dusted… ready to hit Eastern Europe and take on a couple of attack drones.

One of the differences between the AK J11 with buffer tube and the solid stock variety seems to be the rear wiring.

The tactical J11s run wires out of the back into the rear cap the buffer tube screws into… to facilitate teardown they use a JST connector in that, then wires that run to the battery plug as a separate lead, so two connectors between battery and motor… never a good practice. :roll_eyes:

Dremelled out the routing slot in the rear cap big enough to clear an XT30 connector and hardwired straight to the battery plug… muy bueno, much betterer.

Also gutted out the appalling DK hopup to accommodate a decent 13mm Rizer, very accurate little (big) blaster now… and cheap.

Think I’ll spring for a J12 gearbox and transplant all the upgrade parts into it… would solve the terminal spring carnage which I can’t be arsed expending any brain power on right now… might even throw in a metal gearset. :man_shrugging:

The stock’s not standard JM fitment, BTW… one of mine, but better looking on an AK than the M4 stock, imho.

Spek engrish. Give you a nostrami. You aint got no stock on it why it’s cheaper :rofl:

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Likin’ that handguard. :+1::+1:

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Nah, they’re childsplay… they only go on one way and the worst you can get is to be one tooth out. Don’t be nervous about yanking them… you have to anyway to open the box up.

Because mine had obviously been apart before somebody put the selector linkage on one tooth out. Selector worked fine on the downstroke, but on the upstroke going from semi to full giggle it would stay in semi… unless you went up past full auto and back down again. :roll_eyes:

Easy fix… knock it down a tooth on the linkage and everything’s back to working properly again. :+1:

I just wish the selector lever was metal and not nylon. :man_shrugging:

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Yeah, i had a bit of a play with it… just one more step.

I watched the vid, marked the teeth ( the gold paint pen is great…i got that for the stars beretta grip decal touch up).

Because there is SO much room in the stock…i think i’m gonna fit another metal rod on the internal bottom, for extra weight.

The long 7.4v batt still easily fits in.

The extra weight ( i tried putting another slightly smaller batt in , just for weight) does " Fool you" into thinking its actually a heavier wooden stock…

Just what you need, to pound those pesky squids, when they slink across the border… :grin: :rofl: :rofl:

Yea I had to fix that APS AK my photo did the same thing. I redid the selector screw it doesen’t flop around like your Nanna.

New screw and bit of a belt the hammer. Good to go :wink:

Ah, the BFH technique… works every time. :wink:

I used a heat gun to bend the plastic selector arm on my J11 enough to put some positive pressure on the detents. :rofl:

May just fab one out of metal yet.

Oh yep on mine metal jobby but different blasta. Never got round to those JM AK’s heard they pretty good.

APS suited me in the day. Needed a bit of recorrecting. Bloody weighs 6KG. but I like it

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I think the J11 weighs about 6 grams.:rofl:

It’s like every other blaster… pull it apart once, next time you’re doing it blindfolded. Nothing special about the V3 gearbox either just a V3 with wire caddy hooks on the top plate to hold the mag terminal wires.

A piece of proverbial piss… never understood that saying… how can you have a piece of liquid?

Piece of shit, yeah I get that. Shit being mostly solid. Unless you’ve overdone the Guzman Y Gomez tacos the night before.

Then you can expect the brown rain. :rofl:

But… I digress.