Is there a reason WHY you cant keep a military RPK drum loaded? If you do a google search people say you cant keep them loaded, something about it using a coil spring and you cant keep them tensioned?
Does this make sense or is it fuddlore.
Is there a reason WHY you cant keep a military RPK drum loaded...
Michael Lee
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Joshua Bennett
You can keep them loaded, just not wound up. So I guess you shouldn’t keep a top loader loaded all the time.
Or so I’ve been told. Never seen the evidence of it failing or anything,
Oliver Gonzalez
Fuddlore.
Don't keep shitty or cheap mags loaded. One with a proper spring will not wear out.
Luis Stewart
springs fatiguing under load is part fuddlore and part not
they shouldn't, but a lot of springs are shittily made and will anyway. thats the tl;dr of it. an ideal spring wont ever fatigue, and a properly made piece of metal wont change properties, but shitty springs will fatigue because they are made out of shitty metal and were shittily tempered.
Colton Lewis
RPK drums can be stored without tensioning the spring, so even if that is an issue you can get around it easily. Just wind it before use.
Jayden Fisher
your confusing commerical production drums with real RPK drums, such as in OP's pic.
Nicholas Scott
Assuming an average cost of $150 thats like $1300 worth of drums right there.
Connor Reed
>what is physics?
Oliver Sullivan
You know. Like slavshit surps. I'm a bit slavaboo, but the reds built their guns and magazines on the cheap.
Ayden Hill
why dont u do it and report back to us
Brayden Martin
>risking $200 drum
Juan Ross
Ryder Taylor
AOA had those and they were broken and sold for like $120.
Jordan Diaz
these drums have a coil spring not a box spring.
Lucas Lee
probably wont matter.
Zachary Bailey
but u said it's fake fuddlore
Nathaniel Gray
Cheapo fake aluminium springs will eventually take on the shape they're left in. Proper springsteel doesn't.
Oliver Cook
Romanians can be stored for the life of the drum.
..period
James Martin
I keep my $300 Molot drum loaded, works fine.
Henry Brown
don't they have to eat and sleep and shit?
Brody Hughes
pepperoni.
Bentley Baker
Prosciutto.
Nathan Bennett
Kinda unrelated but I had MFT branded polymer AR mags warp on me cuz I kept them loaded.
Christopher Cooper
Retard, they come with a plastic warp stopper that you put on for long term storage.
Nathaniel Lopez
Mft are budget ass shit mags tho
Easton Sullivan
there's a property in material something something elasticity.
Basically it's the thing that allows a paperclip to return to form up to a certain point. So you should all know you can bend a paperclip to a certain extent and it will spring back a million times, but go beyond it once and it is permanently deformed.
a properly made magazine spring does not approach this elasticity limit when fully loaded or used many times for many years. Other common wear damage is far more likely to render a magazine inoperable.
Jayden Peterson
No they don't only gen 2 pmags came with that, mission first mags are like $7
Dylan Phillips
Can i still find some of these? I have the innards of two drums but not the outer shell and it seems like there's literally noone selling parts for them
Justin Phillips
it's probably more to prevent it from accidentally mag dumping it's huge load all over you.
I could've sworn I had a gift for this...
Henry Lopez
>I bought mine for $39
>thought it was expensive.
Thomas Price
This explains some things for me
Bentley Lopez
>commercial production drums with real RPK drums
Speaking of fuddlore.
Do you think the Chinese didn't field an RPK? Rear loaders are just as "real" as top loaders.
Brandon Ramirez
I've seen a drum mag that was loaded in 1980s... and it was over 30 years old when we fired rounds from it.
Mag functioned perfectly without any issues. What wears springs is constant compression/decompression and not a constant load.
Ayden Torres
Cringe, not even a RPK whatsoever, totally different operating system.
You probably think a VZ58 is also AK.
Adam Baker
Settle down rebbit. It has nothing to do with the operating system of the gun in question but the "commercial vs military" designation of the mag.
Jason Rogers
>conversation about AK/RPK's and military drums
>brings up some random totally different gun for no reason and says look at me
ugh, ok?
Hudson Sanders
It's the same mag. It's not like I'm trying to shoehorn a VZ mag into an AK.
Are you going to tell me that Type 63 mags aren't AK mags, either?
Jayden Thomas
>coil spring
I suppose I shouldn't leave my pocket watch wound because it'll wear out the spring huh?