Ok I think this is the last new part for me to find. Anyone have a clue where to find a new or like new buttpad for the Tabuk? I was thinking maybe someone (maybe me again) could mold some out of hard rubber or even plastic. I remember a thread on plastic molding when guys were talking about molding new M-70 grips. It looked pretty easy and not very expensive. It was a nice little plastic molding kit thay had bought.
I believe those were US butt pads and the rear of the Tabuk stock had to conform to the US buttpad. I elected to leave the rear as originally designed, and I would find a buttpad on my own.
You may want to try and call a vendor who has an over abundance of Yugo Kits and see if they have a spare buttpad.
There are very few kits out there now and even fewer with fixed stocks. I wish our 'registered importer of record' (Hesse/Blackthorne/AKPartsKits) would supply small parts that many of us need. They could have made a killing on RPK rear sights, wood, butt pads, gas blocks without grenade sights, cleaning rods, scopes, etc.
OK mold Masters what should I use from this site to come as close as I can to the real rubber butpad from the Yugo's? Maybe the urethane casting resins?
Here's another site with casting supplies. I've used their products to make US yugo grips and copies of wieger followers with success. They should have a materials suitable for making buttpads.
Here's another site with casting supplies. I've used their products to make US yugo grips and copies of wieger followers with success. They should have a materials suitable for making buttpads.
I called the Tech support and they told me a compound that sounds like it would work great. These buttpads have a steel insert in them to keep the screws from pulling through. I would like to do it as a project but I have WAY too many irons in the fire now. It will be months before I could get to this. I do wish someone would step up and give this a shot. It looks like you could make about 100 for 300 dollars. Hell, I would pay 30 bucks for a new buttpad. Someone MAKE THESE!!!!!!!
Man, you've got that right. Probably well more than half of the Yugo fixed stock kits out there are either missing their pads or the pads are damaged or have notches cut in them. You could sell a ton of them for something between $20 to $30.
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