are their any stainless aks out there?

[Rellik]

I was wondering are there any makers of stainless aks? I have looked a little but I cant come up with nothing.

 

[sloughfoot]

No. There are a few gold plated ones owned by tinpot dictators though.

 

[Rellik]

It would be so cool if some company made an all stainless ak...I'd be all over it

 

[Destro]

 

[Rellik]

!!! just a picture and no info?!?!?!? cmon man I need more info.

 

[JettaKnight]

Classic Arms used to sell some they chromed. Personally, I thought they were garish...

 

[Archer]

You could always have one duracoated in the stainless color

 

[nra4ever]

I bought some from classic arms when they were offering the hard chrome ak's. They are truly ghetto fabulous and the price was right. they were going for $499 in dec of 2011.

 

[Rellik]

Eh I guess the one in the pic is chromed huh. I wonder why nobody has ever made an ak using stainless? Seems to be that it would be the perfect gun for zombies or economy collapse or whatever you could imagine.

 

[Disposable Heart]

Eh I guess the one in the pic is chromed huh. I wonder why nobody has ever made an ak using stainless? Seems to be that it would be the perfect gun for zombies or economy collapse or whatever you could imagine.

How so? Stainless can still rust, resists very durable forms of protective coatings (like parkerizing), can't be chromed (in cases of barrels, which not only resists corrosion, but makes clean up very easy and extends the barrel life) and in some cases, isn't as durable as carbon steel.

I think the Soviets only made certain PARTS from stainless rather than the whole gun for a reason.

 

[xM3RC1L3SS1x]

I like to color of the wood, thats it.

 

[karl77]

stainless is fickle to work with. it's hard on tooling, due to work hardening.

in 1936 ford built 7 cars out of stainless steel for Allegheny Ludlum stainless, which proceeded to ruin the dies. Ford had to temporarily stop production till new body dies could be made.
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