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Replacement Mak-90 Dust Cover...?
« on: September 22, 2019, 01:32:48 AM »
Anyone know of any place that has replacement Mak-90 AK-47 Dust Covers in stock (smooth / non-ribbed / non-serialized)?  I just picked up a MAK-90 and it had what looks like an aftermarket top cover with a 4 rivet scope mounting / dove tail bar (not a picatinny rail but maybe the underlying hardware a picatinny would have attached to).  Most vendors seem to be out of stock and the only ones I am seen were on GunBroker at inflated prices.
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Re: Replacement Mak-90 Dust Cover...?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2019, 03:08:24 AM »
From what I read the in a thread on AR15.com (https://www.ar15.com/forums/ak-47/Need-MAK90-Dust-Cover/64-165435/),
the Polish milled AK top cover is closest match for a MAK-90 when it is not possible to source an original Chinese top cover. 

I went ahead and went with a "Polish AK-47 1960 Milled Top Cover, Smooth, Blued, *Very Good*" I found here:
https://www.apexgunparts.com/rifles/ak-47/ak-by-country/polish/polish-milled-ak47-top-cover-smooth-blued-very-good.html
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Re: Replacement Mak-90 Dust Cover...?
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2019, 10:34:20 AM »
http://www.texasweaponsystems.com/category-s/1879.htm             This was the best thing to happen to my MAC 90.  The fit was rock solid and holds zero.
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Re: Replacement Mak-90 Dust Cover...?
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2019, 11:44:55 AM »
Man I started looking through my bookmarks for AK parts and found a good 1/3 of them are no more.  Polytech parts used to have smooth Chinese dustcovers, but no more I see, and gunbroker that used to have multiple sellers has dried up as well for many AK parts.

www.robertrtg.com had  Polish ones listed for about half that, but are out of stock, looks like you did about aswell as  you can find right now.
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