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usrguns
Callahan's Auto Mag Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Location: Pensacola, ,Fl Status: Offline Points: 942 |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2013 at 3:10am |
Looks like Numrich has them in stock!!!
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jw4570
Callahan's Auto Mag Joined: 08 Mar 2008 Location: FL Status: Offline Points: 1319 |
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I have straightened them and had it work.
Now where to get struts. I guess it's High Standard? I've heard of spotty response though I haven't tried them. Brian-possibility to make some? Better quality? I don't think that will solve the bending issue when the trigger is pulled when the slide is off the frame. Jason |
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timdurgasr
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I was at the range with my Automag 2 and had a misfire problem. When I cocked the hammer back it went forward and fired several times. It was then when I disassemble I found out that the hammer strut was bent.
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newbedoo
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The first time I took the gun out the hammer was sticking. When I took it apart I found the strut and spring bent back back and binding.
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XP001
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need some pics of this bent thingy. I have never seen one bent, shot my III-30 may times no issue with factory stuff. Maybe the last owners hot-loads caused it? Will they still function bent or what happens when they do bend? How did you notice they were bent?
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sirsaka
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Newbee,
The strut may get bent rearward with time but yes you are right, the strut will be bent severely forward after only one drop of the hammer without the slide in place. This will cause problems such as feeding, misfires and short cycling.
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Stormy
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That makes perfect sense.
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newbedoo
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Thanks for the help. Looks to me the stuts are bent back. If it was due to fireing with out the slide on would it not be bent forward? I was thinking the slide was cooming back too far and pushing the hammer back and down too far causing the strut to hit the back part of the spring hole and bending it back.
I may be wrong though as the guns came to me used.
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sirsaka
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There's a fine line with parts this small and of this configuration between too hard and too soft. Heat treating them most likely would have added the element of breakage in the field and I'm sure Larry thought about that. I'm afraid that it would only have changed the bent strut into a broken strut. The struts in their current form seem to last a lifetime as long as the hammer is not mistakenly dropped without the slide in place. Just a thought. |
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Stormy
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Ok, I'll ask what is on some of a lot our minds and be the Village Idiot; can't the struts be hardened? or rehardened... or harder? without being brittle? I'm waiting for Curmudgeon to spank me on this one!
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