Posted: 2/8/2018 8:49:31 PM EDT
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My Dad described this to me and I flat out didn't believe it. Then I got it in my own hands. Normal (long) takeup, then instead of releasing the striker, it made me squeeze the crap out of it before going Click.
I stripped it down and looked at it. There was some wear on the side of the trigger bar that sticks up out of the grip and acts like a disconnector. Other than a little carbon inside the striker channel, there was no grit, debri or anything out of place. Without the slide on, the trigger and trigger bar / disconenctor / sear worked perfectly. Put it back together and no bueno. Same impossible trigger pull. I then stripped the slide down - pulled the striker assembly, striker block, extractor, spring & detent. There was nothing amiss there either. I play with it while the slide is in various states of re-assembly. No barrel or spring, just holding it in place on the frame Now it seems to work in a more normal manner. I get it put together again, and suddenly it's acting like it should. Pull... pull... pull... pulll... click. No more 20+ pounds of pressure needed to get it over that last little bit of travel. Any ideas what was wrong? I'm stumped. All I did was strip it down a few times, curse mildly as I realized I was missing a pin or spring once or twice, and reassemble it a few times. There is no logical reason why it was malfunctioning or why it is now working properly, and that bugs me. 
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Instructor: Utah CCW
Every other species kills off their stupid......we cater to them. -- spin-drift
Nobody ever called 911&said I just did something smart. -- TheFlynDutchman
Every other species kills off their stupid......we cater to them. -- spin-drift
Nobody ever called 911&said I just did something smart. -- TheFlynDutchman
| I am gonna go out on a limb and say there was some sort of debris in the mechanism that you unknowingly removed/cleared via the tear downs and reassemblies. As it seems that the problem is no more, I would say load, shoot, repeat...often. Long time Kahr fan. They have been trouble free for me for many years. Currently own a CM9 and a CW 45. Carry one or both almost every day. |
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If you need more than 8 rounds in a 1911 to solve your problem, you need friends with rifles.
I don't need your PERMISSION in order to voice my OPINION
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I ran into a similar problem recently with an M&P9. I thought it was a related problem with grit & crud working it's way into the safety plunger in the slide. It was nowhere near as bad as this CW9 was, but it was still really annoying. Close - same effect but wrong reason. Somehow in a previous cleaning the plunger spring had been bent over. The binding was the plunger having to compress the spring sideways instead of lengthwise. Lacking a new spring, I was able to straighten it out a little and put it back in upside down so the bent portion is kept straight by the hole in the plunger. Originally Posted By 44-40pro: I am gonna go out on a limb and say there was some sort of debris in the mechanism that you unknowingly removed/cleared via the tear downs and reassemblies.... Yup - 100% accurate. ps - Kahr is still running smoothly. |
Instructor: Utah CCW
Every other species kills off their stupid......we cater to them. -- spin-drift
Nobody ever called 911&said I just did something smart. -- TheFlynDutchman
Every other species kills off their stupid......we cater to them. -- spin-drift
Nobody ever called 911&said I just did something smart. -- TheFlynDutchman
