Thread: Replacing no longer available rifle parts..

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

I NEED a mag for a Norinco 10A (semi auto) it’s a 10 shot magazine.

It’s made of plastic and it’s splitting down the front plus the ‘lips’ are disintegrating.

Been looking for another mag for ages and it appears they’re made of unobtanium.

One technique of joining plastic across cracks is to have a number of tiny threads of steel wire cable, like 5mm long. Lay them across the gap, and touch with a hot soldering iron till they "sink in". Do each thread a slight angle from the preceding one so they "key".

Originally Posted by akaroa1

This is the most reliable magazine I have ever used
Lots of moving parts but it feeds all different brands and bullet weights reliably

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The rifles that use this type of magazine are usually of a simpler design and have fewer parts and are therefore easier to keep running long term

And they generally use less ammunition

Easy to forget that the only order-of-magnitude (ten times faster) increase in firing rate was in going from muzzle loader to breech loader.
That said, fast follow-up shots really require that imperfect, inorganic magazine.