Wayne Smith
06-11-2006, 06:30 PM
Gentlemen, and you know who you are!
Have any of you taken apart the trigger sear on your rifles? Mine refused to fire, and the sear clearly wasn't retracting completely, so I pulled it down and disassembled it. Clearly, not all engineers/designers belive in simplicity! After cleaning off the cosmoline - please don't tell me it was supposed to stay, the problem began before I cleaned it!- and having it fall apart several times, I finally came to the conclusion that the trigger/sear spring was protruding out slightly, preventing two pieces of the assembly to come together completely, thus preventing the sear from dropping completely. I used a pair of needle nose pliers and a dental pick to move the spring, and it fired. That was yesterday.
Lo and Behold - today at the range it refused to fire. I haven't taken it back down, but I'm sure it's the same pesky spring impinging between the two pieces of metal - I don't know the nomenclature for these pieces other than the sear and the spring, and it's the interface of the other two that I'm talking about.
After all that, my question - Have any of you gentlemen figured out the magical positioning of this spring to prevent this problem, or am I left on my fumble fingered self alone? ( It was only Divine intervention that allowed me to find that little pin after it fell out by it's own weight!)
Have any of you taken apart the trigger sear on your rifles? Mine refused to fire, and the sear clearly wasn't retracting completely, so I pulled it down and disassembled it. Clearly, not all engineers/designers belive in simplicity! After cleaning off the cosmoline - please don't tell me it was supposed to stay, the problem began before I cleaned it!- and having it fall apart several times, I finally came to the conclusion that the trigger/sear spring was protruding out slightly, preventing two pieces of the assembly to come together completely, thus preventing the sear from dropping completely. I used a pair of needle nose pliers and a dental pick to move the spring, and it fired. That was yesterday.
Lo and Behold - today at the range it refused to fire. I haven't taken it back down, but I'm sure it's the same pesky spring impinging between the two pieces of metal - I don't know the nomenclature for these pieces other than the sear and the spring, and it's the interface of the other two that I'm talking about.
After all that, my question - Have any of you gentlemen figured out the magical positioning of this spring to prevent this problem, or am I left on my fumble fingered self alone? ( It was only Divine intervention that allowed me to find that little pin after it fell out by it's own weight!)