Posted: 1/16/2011 6:01:48 PM EDT
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The pistol is a 1911 manufactured by Springfield Armory in 1914 or 1915. I did a quick function check (no live fire) and this is what I found: Rack the slide - hammer holds full cock Engage thumb safety - press trigger and something clicks, you can feel it in the trigger, and the hammer still holds cock Release thumb safety and the hammer drops to half cock. Unless it's rebounding to half cock but I don't think so. Everything else seems normal. I don't have the pistol here (it's not mine). Could this need a part replaced (it seems all original) or maybe just an adjustment of some sort? I'm curious as to what's going on with it.
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Thumb safety isn't making good enough contact with the sear. When you have the safety engaged and pull the trigger, the sear moves ever so slightly. Not enough to drop the hammer, but enough that once the safety is out of the way the sear will move and let the hammer drop.
Edit: fit a new thumb safety, or if you feel you have to keep the original part, have the part where the safety contacts the sear welded and refit. |
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Thumb safety isn't making good enough contact with the sear. When you have the safety engaged and pull the trigger, the sear moves ever so slightly. Not enough to drop the hammer, but enough that once the safety is out of the way the sear will move and let the hammer drop. Edit: fit a new thumb safety, or if you feel you have to keep the original part, have the part where the safety contacts the sear welded and refit. +1 |
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Quoted:
Thumb safety isn't making good enough contact with the sear. When you have the safety engaged and pull the trigger, the sear moves ever so slightly. Not enough to drop the hammer, but enough that once the safety is out of the way the sear will move and let the hammer drop. Edit: fit a new thumb safety, or if you feel you have to keep the original part, have the part where the safety contacts the sear welded and refit. +2 |