B West AK Sidefolder

[samned]

I recently acquire a B West Side Folder AKS. It has B West China on the bottom of the reciever. It is one of the rifles that there were problems with the heat treating?

What is the going rate for a rifle such as this in like new conidition?
Thanks
Samned
TN

[graveman]

B-West AKS sidefolder is a nice pre-1989 ( Bushban ) Chinese AK. Does NOT need to comply with 922 R ( parts count rule ). I am not aware of any "heat treating" problems with the receiver ..... only receivers I have heard of having such issues were the Vulcans, the ejector rail was not hardened and it would bend/warp/wear down quickly.
It should easily bring $1000.

[recon]

Thats one of the good one's! When B-West started to do there own receivers that is when they went sour! $500-$800.

[NevadaPistolero]

The Chinese marked B-West recievers are fine...its the one with no china mark on them made here in the US that they screwed up. They were not heat treated properly. Yours is good.

[recon]

Hey NP! Nice AK site there! Really nice!
http://762x39.net ;c

[NevadaPistolero]

Thanks recon, I appreciate it.

[samned]

Is it true that the B West AK is made from ploytech parts and a norinco receiver? If not then which factory made the parts and reciver for B West.
Also which is more common side folder or underfolder AK-47 ?

Thanks

Samned
TN

[NevadaPistolero]

As far as I know there all Norinco parts...they wouldnt use 2 different factories materials for the Chinese guns. The B-west made receivers were not heat treated properly so thats the problem with them. Ive never seen or heard of Poly parts on them. I think the factories were 26 and 66.

[samned]

This rifle has 2 stampings on left side I am wondering about. The first appears to be a 010 under the AKS 762x39 stamp near the handguard. The other is a 2 inch spot over the pistol grip that has had some of the markings removed. The last 2 letters appear to be "CH". I can not make out the rest of the markings. What could these markings mean?

Where can I look for makers proofs on this rifle?

Thanks
Samned
TN

[NevadaPistolero]

Look on Jeepcreeps website.... click here (http://www.chicom47.com/) there is something on the B-west.

[samned]

How hard is it to find the type 56-2 Norinco stock sets. They look pretty cool, and it has that weird psitol grip.

[recon]

http://www.aa-ok.com/akparts.html

[NevadaPistolero]

Heres KENGs website...they only sell original chinese parts and stocks.

http://www.polytechparts.com/main.html