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Bend and try.
Bend gently.
Kinks are bad.
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My son's RIA started randomly either allowing the hammer to follow the slide or stopping at half cock. He initially thought he was limp-wristing it, until it decided to stop working completely.
Sitting at my bench, I couldn't get it to do anything consistently, but it was clear that the sear wasn't catching. The gun was new, and I could have sent it in, but instead I just ordered a Wolff standard sear spring. When the new spring came in, there was a distinct difference in one of the legs of the original spring and the new spring - the sear leaf wasn't as beefy and was a bit shorter. Maybe the original spring was able to move around inside the frame, or maybe it just wasn't "right," but it was obvious that it was the problem.
It took plenty of the bend-try-bend again fitting to get the trigger, the disconnector, and the sear to work together, but that was sort of expected. I have the original on my bench, sort of a trophy of fixing that pistol. Today it shoots great and is as reliable as you expect a 1911 to be.