I went plum because I planned to swap it to wood and use the plum on a future SBR build. Going to wait though. I think I want to hit up a few local shows and hand pick if I can find some. Though I saw some bakelite here listed recently that I'd like to put on the m70 if the price comes down.. I will be looking at the safety options out there, as I noticed last night that you can't operate the M70 safety when the stock is folded. I might be able to fix that with some removal of thub tab, but I'm also interested in finding BHO ones.

How to fix a loose safety:

1) Cock rifle, drop hammer.

2) Pop dust cover

3) Flip safety up to safe position

4) Continue rotating upwards until it moves past receiver wall and is pointing straight up

5) Pull on it towards the opposite side of the receiver to bend it inwards

6) When happy, push it back down while holding down the trigger. Not holding down the trigger will result in it bumping up against it with no space to move through.

You can, of course, also cut your own BHO into the lever. I`m not a fan of them, personally, but you do you.

Not a bad idea. The metal feels a little thin to maintain tension TBH. Its the one part that feels skimped on.

Hard to tell if a surplus lever would fit or not - given the amount of fitting some Bayonets (which are intended to be universal fit) require to fit the PSAK lug, who knows what a surplus lever would require.

Look into the Polish stocks at Atlantic firearms. That bakelite is a good price for a matching set, and only going up in value.

I disassembled my M92 this morning. Put the OEM wood back on. As AKs are still a pretty new field for me, I am rethinking what looks good and what looks "right." The fact that the M92 was intended to become a krinkov clone when I bought it, makes me rethink the current bakelite. (They don't work great with the round krink style retaining plate.) Now that I have options in my collection, I can decide what will have what. I need to find a decent website that describes the original variants clearly. There is a ton of info out there.

Join the Akfiles.com and ask around.

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Will have almost everything you`ll need for whatever.

I picked mine up today. Nice finish with a coat of oil over all of the Metal. Safety wasn't as light as some mentioned and cycled smoothly by hand.
May have a slight can't to the front sight, I will look later as I only had a couple minutes to look it over before work.
Furniture looked good, I am pleased with it at the price point and with a Lifetime Warranty.
More to come as I get time to strip it and look closer.

I picked up mine today, too! Same observations as you - finish is nice, although there is enough oil to fry a turkey with. Safety lever is tight yet smooth. Action cycles nice and smooth with no slop. Love the Magpul furniture. Sights appear to be straight, but I'll find out on range day. I haven't popped the hood yet, but will tonight or tomorrow.

I went with the standard furniture, the Zhukov folder would have been nice but I don't like the Magpul forearms. I'm too old School I guess...

Yeah, the Zhukov folding stock is pretty legit. No wobble at all when folded, and the LOP adjustment is also tight. The cheek weld is pretty comfortable, too.

If I was buying a combloc AK, I'd want the traditional wood furniture, but since this rifle is made in the USA, having furniture also made in the USA just feels right.

I really do find the magpul stuff comfy and a good fit. I find magpul's lack of QD hardware on their stuff really annoying though. Making people buy extra stuff is greedy. I found QD cups/mounts on amazon that worked on my backpacker stock. I ordered a soviet canvas sling to use for this rifle (as I plan to do all wood eventually anyways), but come to find out that they didn't even make the sling loop in the stock the right size for AK slings. Standard is 1.5", but their zhukov stock's sling loop is 1.25" wide. So i need to order the QD stuff anyways apparently.

Or..y`know...just paracord in an extension.

Nah, I can't do Paracord on stuff. Not If there is a solution. Two QD cups: $10 off amazon, and the 1.5" QD clip os only $10. Simple enough, just annoying. Though a laminate stock setvwould only be $30... I just need to dexide what I want to do now. But if I've already spent over $500 on the rifle, I'm not going to go cheap on solvong things like this. :D