Looking for a 22 conversion kit for my FA

[Rockrand]

Hello I am new new new a newbie in this world so forgive me if I don’t know what I am doing,my friend talked me into buying a FA full size Uzi and I am having a blast with it and after reading around I see there was a 22 kit produced and I would love to have one if anyone has one stashed.
Thanks again.

 

[Slowmo]

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1055422822

 

[pmf]

Prepare to pay a 'very rare' price for it. I sold my GI 22 kit a few years ago for $1200. Its fun when it works, but that's the problem I had -- it never worked that well. With the right ammo (mine liked Winchester Super-X) and if the mags were cleaned, it might only jam once per mag. I got tired of cleaning the mags every time I shot it. And the right ammo was often hard to find at the time. I concluded that a gun designed to shoot 9mm probably isn't going to shoot tiny 22 rounds that well (I had the same experience with a M11/9). You can find 45 acp kits that work well, but will make you realize why Thompsons are so heavy. Your uzi works best with 9mm.

 

[MG34_Dan]

My Vector .22lr full-auto conversion kit has worked perfectly from day 1. I've never had any issues with it in any manner. I only shoot high velocity Federal ammo that I get from Wally World.

Here is the Vector instruction sheet I got with my kit.

 

[pmf]

Lucky for you.

Mine was a Group Industries kit. I tried Vector 22 mags in it and they didn't work. Hot ammo is better as is a silencer.

 

[Vector Arms]

Please contact us at directblowback@gmail.com and we will be happy to assist you with a Full Auto 22 LR Conversion Kit.
Tommy Carpenter, Owner
Vector Arms
Materialized Arms

 

[Dirk Hawthorne]

My Vector .22lr full-auto conversion kit has worked perfectly from day 1. I've never had any issues with it in any manner. I only shoot high velocity Federal ammo that I get from Wally World.

Here is the Vector instruction sheet I got with my kit.

I had one of the old vector 22 kits and I don't think I ever got a full mag out of it without a jam.

I read all the tutorials on how to get it running, and effed with it for hours on end. I am a stubborn bastard and I could not get it to work.

What kind of UZI are you using with your kit?

 

[MG34_Dan]

Huh. Ain't that a biatch. My Vector conversion works so reliably that I got a magazine loader from M60 Joe to save me time loading magazines. I can easily get 1000 rounds fired in one setting until I need to tear everything down to clean .22 crud. This is one of my favorite easiest shooting .22 setups.

 

[pmf]

Huh. Ain't that a biatch. My Vector conversion works so reliably that I got a magazine loader from M60 Joe to save me time loading magazines. I can easily get 1000 rounds fired in one setting until I need to tear everything down to clean .22 crud. This is one of my favorite easiest shooting .22 setups.

Lucky you. I share Dirk's experience. I also had a Lage 22 conversion for my M11/9. I had Lage tune it for me. Never worked worth a shit. Only Lage thing I ever bought that didn't work perfectly though. The Max 11/15 upper is awesome. I sold both of the 22 kits I had for a lot more than I paid for them. And I was honest, telling people these things hadn't worked great for me.

 

[ktk120]

my old vector kit also runs very very well. I had to find ammo that it liked and switched to the black dog mags and its nothing to run 500rd in a setting with may 1-2 hangups.

 

[Dirk Hawthorne]

The magazines had this thumb button and I dropped one. It made that "tick tack" sound of a metal part bouncing on a concrete floor. I thought to myself, that didn't sound too bad, it couldn't have gone far.

I never found it.

There must be a planet somewhere in another dimension that has gigantic mountains of little tiny screws and springs on it.

 

[Dirk Hawthorne]

Lucky you. I share Dirk's experience. I also had a Lage 22 conversion for my M11/9. I had Lage tune it for me. Never worked worth a shit. Only Lage thing I ever bought that didn't work perfectly though. The Max 11/15 upper is awesome. I sold both of the 22 kits I had for a lot more than I paid for them. And I was honest, telling people these things hadn't worked great for me.

I have a Vector that runs like top with 9mm ammo. I recently shot 360 rounds FA with zero jams. But they say that Vectors have small dimensional variations, and so I thought that maybe tolerance stacking with the 22 kit was keeping it from running.

Who knows?

It would be interesting to see if one of these guys' kits that runs 100% would run in my gun.

 

[mirage]

I have had very good luck with my Vector FA 22 LR conversion kit . It runs best using Winchester super x ammo.
Both my 20's rd, and 28's rd magazines work fine. I can easily run through a 500 round brick of ammo.
My uzi is a Vector built smg.

 

[deanq]

After tuning mine per BWE's tutorial and using his mags, mine runs about 98% now. Worth shooting now. Before that.....not.

 

[CKxx]

I have had very good luck with my Vector FA 22 LR conversion kit . It runs best using Winchester super x ammo.
Both my 20's rd, and 28's rd magazines work fine. I can easily run through a 500 round brick of ammo.
My uzi is a Vector built smg.

Do you think you could link me/us to the exact ammo?

I have a Vector kit that was running --FLAWLESSLY-- with old CCI ammo that came in some very yellowed milk carton-type packaging. Well, I ran out of that and now I can't get it to work at all. I've tried all the usaul suspects--from CCI to remington junk, to that goofy steel case stuff. Absoltely no luck.

 

[MGMAN45]

Try some CCI mini mags.

 

[MGMAN45]

I dont have a .22 kit for my UZI.I do have a Atchisson .22 kit for my M16,bought the kit in 1983 found out it functioned the best using CCi mini mags as they were a hotter load.Good luck.

 

[Samuel_Hoggson]

My Vector kit runs very well with Minimag RN or HP, and 40 gr Blazer.

Consistent power level is the thing. On a hot day CCI SV will work. Some lots of Rem GBs work. A chronograph reveals some rounds with low velocity in lots that don't work.

Anything with a wide HP, like most bulk Win, will not feed reliably.

 

[mirage]

Do you think you could link me/us to the exact ammo?

I have a Vector kit that was running --FLAWLESSLY-- with old CCI ammo that came in some very yellowed milk carton-type packaging. Well, I ran out of that and now I can't get it to work at all. I've tried all the usaul suspects--from CCI to remington junk, to that goofy steel case stuff. Absoltely no luck.

Sgammo.com has Winchester super x 22LR 40 grain copper coated fmj bullets. X22LRSSI
The packaging colors have changed a bit. My boxes are gray with red and black lettering.

 

[SecondAmend]

From what I've read the Atchisson (later sold to Ciener) and CMMG Atchisson pattern M16 .22 conversions were developed using Federal 36 gr., copper coated .22LR ammo. IIRC, the Vector conversion for the Uzi may have been as well.
I have a 2007 vintage Vector Uzi .22 conversion, several CMMG M16 .22 conversions and dedicated 4.5 in. and 9 in. uppers dating from as far back as 2010 and as recent as 2018, and a Fleming M11-380 .22 conversion that I bought used last year. All work well (unsuppressed as I don't have a full auto rated .22 silencer) with Federal 36, 38 and 40 gr., copper coated, CCI MiniMag, 40 gr., CCI ARTactical, 40 gr., and CCI SV, 40 gr. ammo, as well as others with projectiles in the 36-40 gr. range that are not sub sonic.
MHO, YMMV, etc.