I have over a dozen personal SSA-E’s (my favorite trigger in the world), & installed way more for friends & colleague’s and they all work perfectly and beautifully right out of the box. However I just installed a brand new SSA-E in my lower for my Geissele SD upper, and right from the start it was super gritty on the first stage (feels like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing against each other) and has a very slight left/right movement. The second stage breaks as normal like an icicle.
I removed it and tried it on several other lowers and had the same result. I loaded up the sear with grease but still made no difference. All of my SSA-E’s I have purchased and installed have a buttery glass like smooth first stage. I’ve exhausted all efforts to try and solve this issue but it looks like I got a lemon (happens to every company) and wrote Geissele asking if I could swap it out.
This trigger is brand new and I haven’t shot any rounds through it. Hopefully we can swap it out so I can complete the Super Duty build. Every other Geissele component I’ve used for the past 15 years has been perfection.