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hi Misha here and it's time to do another five dollar patreon requested video and a lot of them either I'll need Jays help with or require some range time but this is one that's a technical question then I can knock out on this rainy day Matthew M says that like a lot of us he's got projects and a couple of them are FAL and he asks what are the right receivers the correct receivers for both a light barrel build and a heavy barrel build he doesn't give any more info like year or nationality so I'm gonna kind of have to be a little more generic and sorry I don't have any really new FAS to show you so I thought I'd just show them all kind of lined up here I know my RS are kind of in the middle of my metrics and inches and whatnot but just how they're laid out so yeah well we'll talk about the quote-unquote correct FAL receiver and you know I'll pass along a few FAL building tips that I myself have accumulated over the years and hopefully answer Matthew Eames question for those of you who don't know we have a patreon account linked below dollar one and up you can participate in q and A's and generally speaking dis ask us questions at any time $5 and up we started this new perk for anyone you can request a video and we'll do it then as we say then we don't know how long it'll take us to get to it looks like we've been averaging about one a month but that'll probably pick up as summer comes on and so yeah this is Matthew's $5 contribution via request so I'm gonna at least give him a lot of minutes I know about quality that's a Peter decide but he will get a lot of minutes because it's me talking therefore J it'd be five minutes and sink and come back but me lord knows that'll be a future episode so grab yourself a drink some chips and let's get into the fal or the foul was some people call it all right Matthew first your light burrow question I put out examples of each of the three major receiver types styles if you will there are minor ones that I will mention I'm probably won't show them all but these are the big ones so for your light barrel this is the type one notice the lightning cuts all the way back it also has the same lightning cuts on the right side as well as a lightning cut on the other side of the magwell flange this was the original receiver type the FAL was developed in the 1940s FN first started to show and advertise in 1951 and then it was officially in production in 53 several nations including the US and Britain ordered prototypes and hubs thousands of them for trials but the first nation that jump on one was Canada in 1954 in a 1955 several and the other nations purchased the FAL including Israel Argentina and Australia New Zealand and others were looking at it very heavily so if you've got an early kit or an Israeli kit a type one would be right for a gun from the 1950s and this here is my g1 this is what came after the German border guard guns the border guard guns would have the tall sites and the first border guard guns would even have wood hand guards but soon that will get replaced by the medal with the bipod when they went to the g1 they went to the low sites with the solid years they're three millimeters lower this gives several advantages including not getting banged around as much especially this popsicle rear sight and also it keeps the show the soldiers head down more more compact package originally the border guard guns had a type b flash rider what you screw it under the barrel but when they went to the gym one they went to this interesting quick detach flash Renner quite oddly they have a bayonet lug on them but they never used them all those things early guns would have would pistol grips and even would cocking handles the wood would go to metal on the cocking handle on the leather plastic obviously the pistol grip would soon go to plastic this is the type C buttstock with the metal ferrule and it also has the trapdoor if I can get it with my hand here I have you know an area for a cleaning kit some fals have it some don't so yeah for a 1950s gun you'll want a type 1 receiver and if you can find it the best ones really are the forge DSA's like this one here because pretty much all of your imports are much later well moving on I have my STG 58 build actually done by the same person who did the g1 it's also on a DSA the STG 58 is very similar to the g1 it's certainly based on it it just came a couple years later the big difference it has the Stoll flash hider built on screwed on no bayonet lug has slightly different hand guards and bipod a little more improved bipod more synthetic now originally the SU G would have had a wood buttstock as well but many of the woods would be replaced by this unique polymer one that doesn't have the hump in the back and late production ones would as well this is on a DSA type too you can see this here hopefully and that's the difference that reinforcement let's see on this it's just a straight lightning cut here it's reinforced they started doing this beginning of 1962 and the type 2 did not replace the type 1 it was just an option the reason they did that a lot of fals were intended to be fired Samata oddly I mean it is 716 803 weight so the falada opposition the 20 round mag is pretty last resort so in fact some nations like Israel and Britain restricted their guns to semi only but some nations did use them in full auto especially the FAL Oh light machine gun version which had a heavier barrel and bipod and they noticed once they were getting into the thousands of rounds count they were either having stretching or cracking back here stress on the receiver because this receiver is actually designed for a shorter smaller cartridge originally and 762 NATO 30 caliber light rifles it was originally known was kind of shoehorned into the design and really why the FAL is perfectly safe with this caliber it's it's its maximum that it can do this is a long very fun machined receiver so the type 1 and type 2 started being made concurrently so if your kit is from the 60s you could use either one and Austria would use both type 1 and type 2 they almost seemed used interchangeably just you know whatever I don't believe Israel ever used type 2 though so if you have an Israeli lat barrel kit probably wouldn't be correct but actually I think type 2 is my favorite well beginning in 1973 FN introduced what's probably the most common receiver the type 3 it's basically the same forging this without the lightning cuts slab side it was a little heavier but it was a lot stronger and it was faster easier cheaper to make especially with 1970s machine technology the original type threes were forged just like the type 1 and type 2 s but then our 1977 FN Herstal started making them from very high grade investment castings but other nations like Brazil or this one here Argentina kept on forging their type threes so that's why I say if you're just looking for a receiver in a lot of ways I think the Argentinian FMAP or Brazilian embel just to build with are better than an original 1980s FN hairstyle because they are forged not that the F in her styles are bad but F in themselves used to say the type 2 especially would be good for about 80 thousand rounds and they said that their cast type 3 was good for at least 40,000 upwards to maybe 60,000 rounds so even by their own admission it would wear out quicker but everything wears out and if you have a Brazilian or Argentinean kit both of which are quite common in America and it's from the 70s or 80s then a type 3 would be correct and if you're wanting an import versus an American machine to receiver you're pretty much gonna have to go with the type three most all the import receivers floating around out there are that because by the time imports were coming in late 70s into the 80s into the 90s everyone who was still making the FAL was doing the type 3 now interestingly just because I mentioned the cites the Argentinian guns kept the tall sights much like the British guns up until what they called the type 4 their designation they're very late production guns all of these have 21 inch barrels they weigh about nine and a half pounds they all have 13 position adjustable gas systems short-stroke tilting bolt these two are builds this is a pre ban import so yeah I hope that helped with your light barrel because it really just depends on the nation and more importantly the era now I will say these are all interchangeable you could build any of these on any of these receivers so if you just like a type 3 or a type 1 it doesn't really matter what's historically correct they'll all build up equal and like I said at the beginning these are all metric I've done a a video comparing inch and metrics I'm not gonna go too deep into it for receiver purposes our main difference is the magwell specifically the notch cut out at the front for the the nipple on the magazine metrics have a small Halfmoon shape or as inch have a much larger welded bar there's also a small difference in the back of the receiver internally and there's a difference at the front of the charging handle slot but the thing is those you can easily modify I mean you can easily modify a metric receiver to take inch parts in fact quite a few in bells were done just that way by century now modifying an inch take metric parts might be a little more challenging so what about your heavy barrel question as to the heavy barrel this really is the same gun as the FAL known as the 50.00 has the same length barrel at 21 inches it's just a lot heavier it is a slightly longer gun because it has a longer flash hider or muzzle device so it can mount it's very heavy duty bipod they also have reversed carry handles for a better weight balance with the barrel different hand guards of course but then you get to the back and they tend to be nearly identical to their cousins this one uses the same stock this is an Argentinean BAP which is their copy of the 50.4 one which is the synthetic stock but this is probably what you have this is an Israeli Mach Leone which is their 50.4 - which is the wood stock and the wood stock is a little different because they have a flip-up shoulder rest butt plate and no trapdoor they can also have 700 meter as opposed to 600 meter rear sights yeah most heavy barrel kits in the US or Israeli so with that the best fit would be again a type 1a really a type 2 I left the type 2 you out because I think an Israeli kit on a type 2 would just be great but probably most of them in reality had type on receivers but yeah maybe some type trees came in but you can definitely build them on on type 3 even though this is a kit gun it is technically a pre-ban these were assembled by Springfield Armory in the 80s using Israeli kits and embel receivers like I was saying by the 80s everyone was making type threes and that does bring me to a point since the Israeli guns were adopted in 1955 they were early pattern and theirs so there are several small differences for example what the gas system dimensions but another difference is the thread pattern for the barrel so when Springfield Armory assembled these they had to modify the receiver to take the Israeli barrel so if you do an Israeli build you may have to do that unless your receiver was specifically made for an Israeli barrel the same thing goes for Argentinian builds there's a small difference in the bottom at least with some Argentinian kits a little relief needs to be cut out of a standard metric receiver to let an Argentinian lower work properly but many manufacturers have done specific Argentinean receivers because they become so common now if you don't have an Israeli then about the only other heavy option that's even out in any numbers is the Belgian pattern now this is an Argentinian gun if you know my videos you know it's one of my prides they produce this under license and it is very similar to the Belgian version including this flash hider the short open top hand guards for better barrel cooling it has the earlier would carry handle most of your belgian imports from the 80s had the newer style plastic but it does have the polymer buttstock which most of your Belgians as well another major difference the bipod on the Argentinian is okay the Belgian bipod is sturdy really sturdy the Argentinian bipod looks like something off of battleship it looks like a girder I don't know how you would bend one I'm thinking it would probably be a Superman thing they are extremely over built it's also very heavy but over built and these bipods are quick-detachable now you'll notice this has this collar and a one screw runs through it to hold the bipod on typically when they were getting in vehicles they would detach them and they would carry the bipod and a belt pouch which actually I do have for the Belgian pattern it's a little different they actually use a snap ring to hold the bipod on along with the keeper and while the bipods for heavy barrels are pretty easy to find it's the hardware that connects it to the flash hider that can be very difficult to find so if you have a heavy barrel kit make sure it has all the small bits to attach the bipod I mean you can find them but yeah they're just they're just hard to find I think cuz they wore out and they get lost and it's on so forth not near as many countries adopted the FAL oh because really it was just standard FAL there wasn't meant to be used once like fire at the heavy barrel and they want great high I love them for collecting and shooting senado but for militaries it really was just a rifle it was heavier but still wood didn't have quick change barrels so if I was doing a build if it was more of the Belgian newer Argentinean I would go type three if it's an older Israeli or maybe an older Belgium maybe you got lucky I would go type one or two in fact you can see this is a type three compatible lower these all line up nice and neat notice on this gun here the lower lines up you can really tell which upper the lower is meant to go with on how it's cut now look at this one type three but then it has the cut back like it would be for a type one or type two now oddly the belgian imports from the 80s the factory FN guns were like this as well I find that interesting at any rate another variation in receivers this is more for light barrels I water often referred to as type one point five and these are South African arms core Littleton what have you made guns well they had almost the same lightning cuts as a type one they were a little different their shape the rounding was a little different on them meaning that if you try to put an r1 lower on the standard type one up or they don't white line up perfectly totally cosmetic thing something most people wouldn't notice but if you're going for that ultimate South African build you will want to get a replica South African upper receiver and as far as I know the only ones to have ever done them are DSA in Coonan of course Coonans gone in DSA is different today so yeah good luck finding one I'm just saying if you see what claims to be a type 1.5 or a r1 specific upper that's what they mean they have the Lightning cuts to match the r1 lower that's just one of the oddballs let's talk about a couple of other unique ones and then I'll wrap things up well just for completeness is sake if you have an inch pattern kit much of what I've just said is pretty stupid cord it's pretty irrelevant inch guns as you would expect kind of kind of did their own thing they were built on a variant of the type 1 receiver with a simplified lightning cut and more squared off in the rear and just to make things more fun Britain and Australia did slightly different patterns as did Canada Canada's were stripper clip fed so there was actually an indention on the left side for your thumb I don't think you have a Canadian c1 kit but just thing now this is a DSA replica Australian receiver Lithgow receiver and this of course is a original British Birmingham small arms BSA receiver it sounds just more rounded and whatnot the other difference is with inch receivers they have small reliefs in the back for the little wings or tail of the dust cover to rest and keep it from sliding too far forward they also have a relief for the folding charging handle see it doesn't have an indention like on a metric instead it locks forward to keep it from reciprocating of course there's lots of differences in an inch kit as far as the receiver you only have those plus you have the larger relief inside the mag well for the inch magazine it's pretty easy to cut a standard metric receiver for all of these things though this is again the australian l2a1 this is their variant of the FAL ofall OU have the major differences with the handguard / bipod and also has the l1a1 style flash hider late l2s actually had a removable sight ear so if they got damaged they could easily be replaced exposed gas tube for cooling the death did annoy me yeah the charging handle carry handle excuse me is still counted backwards but it is actually offset forwards you have the rear sight on the dust cover kind of unique this is found on the sea - but the letter C - a one went to the big disk and yeah there we have that and finally the paratrooper which at first glance seems to be a standard type three but it has a few different cuts as well for one it has they cut out for the handle some have this spacer where the carry handle would go others it's just solid here and another difference because of how the recoil system is housed up top the front of the receiver here or the dust cover top cover goes in is actually in leaded for the nose of the cover to sit and so if you get a standard receiver and want to build a paratrooper kit on it you can either relieve the receiver to take the nose which is the proper way or you could take the nose off of the top cover which will work but it'll make dis and reassembly more of a headache originally paratroopers had a only windage adjustable single aperture rear sight often called a Holland style later they would go to a two position flip which TSA is mad at replicas of the heavy barrel on the light barrel both have 21 inch links the paratrooper actually comes in three links the 5061 is a 21 inch just like the standard rifle so about the only difference is the folding stock typically those have a carry handle and a charging handle the fifty sixty two has an 18-inch barrel so kind of Congo or carbine length the fifty sixty three is the shortest it has a 17 point two inch barrel so about three quarters of an inch shorter than the previous one the reason that was so they could easily jump out of an airplane doors and it would be the sixty three variant that would most often have the folding handle and not have a carry handle there was also a fifty sixty four which was the same as a fifty sixty one but it had an aluminium hollow a lower receiver to save on weight kind of neat now these are by no means all of the variants the FAL was produced in over a dozen countries at least assembled at least seventy used them officially in upwards of a hundred unofficially and approximately 5.5 million were made in total with about two million of those coming from Belgium and production would last from the 1950s through the 80s and in some places like Argentina and Brazil even into the 90s and some fals are still in military service today his first doing builds I hope this answered your question about receivers to use but if it didn't just let me know and I'll do my best I will say a few things real quick and then I'm gonna wrap it up it's always good to have the proper fal tools like the the buttstock removal tool really makes your day a lot faster and easier and safer trust me you don't want to put an eye out I live that life you don't want to join me you also don't want to lose your spring it's also nice to have the tool easily adjust the gas regulator you can do it by hand sometimes but when it's hot especially you may not want to it's also good to have it tool to remove the plug in the back it's kind of like a bottle cap opener in fact a bottle opener will work in a pinch when you get a us-made receiver they tend to be on the tight side so it's expect to have to do some fitting for the mag catch and both hold open because they're trying to make them to be compatible with even well-worn parts so they undersized it just go in and clean it up likewise a lot of times you'll need to clean up the threads and the receiver or the barrel screws in if you're doing an inch build headspace is achieved with two things you have a washer that goes between the barrel and the receiver that times it properly at 12 o'clock you'll need to get the right thickness washer it uses a locking shoulder in the back as well but metric guns they just use the locking shoulder by itself which is really sufficient my personal opinion unlocking shoulders they're inexpensive I would get the right one the headspace is properly some people buy oversized and grind them file them send them to fit I don't like this ID I think you might be doing weird things to the surface heat treat and finishing and besides when you ever you file and sand it's so difficult to get it absolutely even meaning if there's even the smallest hump burr or bulge your head space might be getting thrown off so it's just better to measure for head space and install the right locking shoulder and I really like this method of head spacing because if your gun loses head space through where it's a very simple thing to drive out your shoulder and just install it a fresh one that restores head space it's actually a very simple ingenious way and if you have a few shoulders but none of them fit your gun most places like the FAL files there's trading boards where people will be willing to trade around because you might have the size someone else needs and someone else probably has the size you need just thing obviously when you check for head space when you're building you want to remove the extractor and also it is a little different to set four seven six to NATO vs. 308 Winchester but you can read up on that own guides if you do a build from a full-auto kit there is no need to modify the lower all of the things that make it somato like not having the cutout for the battery safety the auto sear and having the semi-auto ejector block that should all be in your upper already so there's no reason to restrict your lower unless you just want to most imports were for obvious reasons but most of your kit builds you can flip the safety all the way over at a full but not much happens except you get hammer follow but if you want you can put in the somato only selector it's easy to do but it's not required by law and that is about it I'd say you know if you have any other questions about building happy to either help or if I don't know I'm happy to help you find the answer I appreciate again and so does JIT your $5 donation Matthew I hope this was worth it please let us know below anyone else if you're interested in ordering a video like this just to check out our link to our patreon page this is Misha and also on behalf of Jay we will catch you very soon next time