The second gun had a few light strikes during the match. There were two factors to that. One was the mainspring, which had been bent to reduce the force on the hammer. The second was the mainspring strain screw. This is both the screw that was in the gun and a new one:
The new one is on the top, the one that was in the gun is on the bottom. As you can see, the top of the screw was ground off. That is an old trick for a cheap trigger job (as is rebending the mainspring). Doing that is fine if one sets aside such a gun as a range-only gun. But if you're not willing to do that, don't fuck with it.
Replacement parts are in the gun. The trigger pull is noticeably heavier, so I am reasonably confident that the issue with light strikes is in the rear view.
That's a sloppy way to do that.
ReplyDeleteThe person that did should be hurt with the butt.
Eck!
It was an old cop trick, back in the day. They used to just back off the screw, but spot inspections would catch that and the cop would get a RIP.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it’s a cheap, quick and easy thing to fix.
ReplyDeleteI watched a video on YT where a fellow had to re-temper the spring on an antique (a flintlock maybe?) pistol
ReplyDeleteRoutine was, heat until red and bend,
reheat until red then immed quench
carefully, very carefully, clean off all the scale from that
gently reheat until the metal acquires the familiar blue hue
Spring steel, heated, quenched, and untempered, is drop-on-floor-and-shatter brittle.
So, I imagine if replacement springs for that pistol are cheap enough to play with, you could attempt to bend one yourself.