Posted: 7/20/2010 10:34:34 AM EDT
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Got my Tapco trigger/hammer set, and now have a questions, please, about how to get the hammer and trigger pins out of the receiver without using a sledge hammer, which is all I haven't tried yet. There's a wire (shepherd's hook?) involved with both pins, on the lower left side of the receiver,but howinhell that comes out without using another sledge hammer is beyond me ! Thanks for any insight.
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Never mind... found a miniature set of needlenose pliars to remove the pin-retaining wire, and the rest involved only minor blasphemy.
The hard part is getting it back in. If you want to purchase a Red Star Arms retaining plate at a cheap price from me, let me know. I got mine back in, but I think if I had to do it over again I'd use the plate.
Changing the trigger/hammer group is obviously another socialistic ploy from Bolshevik days, requiring at leat two armorers to hold, divert, pull, push, manipulate, and then reverse the process to re-insert two basic pins. Keeps everybody employed. But with one guy doing this ... best be a contortionist with three hands ! Had the stripped rifle under my knee, propped against my desk, pushing the "crook" down with a small screwdriver with right forefinger and thumb,, using two fingers to push the pin with the other hand and holding the rifle with the other two fingers and a thumb and using drillsergeant semantics (cerca 1967) to enforce compliance... all's well that ends well... trigger is a great improvement over the Arsenal/Izhvesk standard equipment, which is reminiscent of the drag and pull of a German HK91.
God! What type of wire does your rifle have?
The wire is 3/4 of a circle wrapped around the trigger pin, and runs UNDER the hammer pin. Some are routed differently, and some, apparently, slide easily back off the trigger pin, making complete removal unnecessary. If I hadn't found my miniature needlenose pliars, I wouldn't have been able to do the job. Having done it once, without a commissar showing me how the first time, it's of course easy to replicate now. Na zdaroviye !
Well, like i said earlier I've never used a Bulgarian style retaining wire and since no one took me up on the idea of sending me their unused one so I could write a thread on the proper way of removing the FCG pins with all of the common wire types, I can only guess. Looking at the only diagram that I have that shows the routing of the Bulgarian style the first thing I would try, if I actually had one to try it on, would be to push down on the spring wire between the hammer and trigger pins so that the wire is out of the hammer pin's retaining groove, and then push the hammer pin out and remove the hammer. Once the hammer pin and hammer is out of the way, the spring wire's tension will be relieved and you'll have room, so it should then be easy to remove the wire from the trigger pin.
Reinstallation would just be the reverse; put trigger and trigger pin in, install retaining wire on trigger pin, push down on the wire and install the hammer and its pin.
I use a small flat blade screw driver to push the wires and a dental pick type tool for pulling them, depending on what is needed for the particular style wire in use.
It's also a good idea to put the hammer spring up behind the hammer's "ears" and tie them of with something before doing anything.
Here is a simple diagram that may make it more clear.
If anyone with a Bulgarian style wire would like to try this I'd like to know if this idea works.
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