![]() ![]() Turned my attention to the barrel bushing. I'm going to try to polish the small section of the magazine that contacts the mag safety.Īll in all, a great All Steel Old School Gun. I hate those devices but this one seems to be fairly integral to the lockwork so it will stay. The next area that needs attention is the magazine safety. The screw holes on the grip panels were just a little off (too close to each other) but a little work with a slightly larger drill bit fixed that flaw. I didn't touch the sear spring or the main spring. The hammer doesn't push off, there's plenty of engagement but no creep. With the now proper geometry between the sear and the hammer, the sear doesn't have to overcome the tension of the mainspring before the hammer is released. I still say that design would be improved with an access hole that would allow the main spring follower to be temporarily captured during reassembly. It actually went back together with less trouble than the last session and ended with that same Starrett punch as a slave pin. After a little judicious work with a fine stone I was able to remove the "hook" from the hammer notch. With some trepidation, I removed the hammer again. Anyway, that's how these things go with me. ![]() You'll get the hang of it.and then you won't do it again for 10 years and have to learn it over again. ![]() Then you can push down on the hammer with the thumb of one hand and get the punch through the frame/hammer/frame with the other hand. Back to the hammer strut on the mainspring problem, if you can secure the frame in a waist high padded bench vise it helps a lot. Once the tip of the hammer pin enters the actual hole in the hammer you're home free. Then I start the actual hammer pin in from the correct side (your pin has a little head/rim on it, right? And has to come in from one side only.) and I pry/wiggle the hammer this way and that while pressing the pin into the hole, using the leverage of the pin punch to align the hole. It's a bit smaller than the pin hole but not sloppy, and once in the hole and having captured the hammer I can carefully pull it part of the way back out so that the tip is about in the middle of the hammer's pin hole. I have a very nice set of Sterrett pin punches that I seldom use, (have a bunch of beaters in a bench top tray for most uses) but one of them is just the right size for this hammer job. You know, actually you could do that (carefully) and I doubt if anyone would even notice the extra hole. ![]()
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