Bill Calfee
Gun Fool
More trigger work...
CYA friends.
Happy Easter.
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After working on my pistol trigger conversion today, here's where I'm at:
I've either got something extremely unique going on......
Or, I'm kidding myself......
Or, I ain't got nothing worth fooling with.........for the MD-PAS pistol trigger, for the masses.
(The neighbor lady just brought me over three big plates of Easter food...and I'm starved)
Your friend, Bill Calfee
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Here's the third lever machining and the return spring I made up....
There's only one way Anthony DiOrio could possible do his new triggers like I'm doing this one....
He would have to get ready made springs to fit.....somewhere, somehow, cause this spring was a bear to make up.
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Here's the trigger in the "at battery" position.
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Here's the trigger in the "discharged" position.
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Here's the most amazing thing about this way of returning the third lever/transfer bar:
Look closely and you can see where I marked the housing with the position of the third lever when at battery and discharged.
This spring only moves maybe .100", at most.......
Compare this to the Bond, and how much the spring has to move....
Or compare it to a Jewel.......
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Here's another amazing thing:
I held the trigger in my bench vise to take these pictures...
I had a "L" shaped sear installed so the third lever would have something to rest on, to show the actual positions the trigger will have.
It was a "L" shaped shaped sear with just the first piece of linkage attached, so I could activate the trigger to take the pictures.
I bet this piece of linkage doesn't weigh an ounce.
Yet with it hanging down in the vise the trigger would not stay at battery...
I had to prop it up to take the "at battery" pictures....
In other words, even without the third lever being re-hardened, and no stoning at all, just the machine cuts, this trigger takes no more than one ounce to discharge it....
Yes, some pull weight will be added when I install a trigger return spring.
But man I'm cited.....
Or, am I foolishly overlooking something........bc
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Oh, and one other thing.....(and here's where I might really be fooling myself).
Since the spring only moves about .100", right now this trigger has the least amount of upward pressure against the bottom of the cocking piece of any trigger...................
Except a manual re-set trigger....
And this thing don't miss it by much....
Now, am I getting fooled here.....?
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CYA friends, if you look at the picture where I've marked the amount of spring movement on the back of the trigger housing, for some perspective of how little the spring moves, compare the width of the marks to the drill bit that's holding the third lever.
That drill bit is .071" in diameter.
CYA friends.
Happy Easter.
__________________________________
After working on my pistol trigger conversion today, here's where I'm at:
I've either got something extremely unique going on......
Or, I'm kidding myself......
Or, I ain't got nothing worth fooling with.........for the MD-PAS pistol trigger, for the masses.
(The neighbor lady just brought me over three big plates of Easter food...and I'm starved)
Your friend, Bill Calfee
__________________________
Here's the third lever machining and the return spring I made up....
There's only one way Anthony DiOrio could possible do his new triggers like I'm doing this one....
He would have to get ready made springs to fit.....somewhere, somehow, cause this spring was a bear to make up.
_______________________________________
Here's the trigger in the "at battery" position.
_______________________________
Here's the trigger in the "discharged" position.
_________________________
Here's the most amazing thing about this way of returning the third lever/transfer bar:
Look closely and you can see where I marked the housing with the position of the third lever when at battery and discharged.
This spring only moves maybe .100", at most.......
Compare this to the Bond, and how much the spring has to move....
Or compare it to a Jewel.......
_____________________________
Here's another amazing thing:
I held the trigger in my bench vise to take these pictures...
I had a "L" shaped sear installed so the third lever would have something to rest on, to show the actual positions the trigger will have.
It was a "L" shaped shaped sear with just the first piece of linkage attached, so I could activate the trigger to take the pictures.
I bet this piece of linkage doesn't weigh an ounce.
Yet with it hanging down in the vise the trigger would not stay at battery...
I had to prop it up to take the "at battery" pictures....
In other words, even without the third lever being re-hardened, and no stoning at all, just the machine cuts, this trigger takes no more than one ounce to discharge it....
Yes, some pull weight will be added when I install a trigger return spring.
But man I'm cited.....
Or, am I foolishly overlooking something........bc
______________________
Oh, and one other thing.....(and here's where I might really be fooling myself).
Since the spring only moves about .100", right now this trigger has the least amount of upward pressure against the bottom of the cocking piece of any trigger...................
Except a manual re-set trigger....
And this thing don't miss it by much....
Now, am I getting fooled here.....?
_________________________
CYA friends, if you look at the picture where I've marked the amount of spring movement on the back of the trigger housing, for some perspective of how little the spring moves, compare the width of the marks to the drill bit that's holding the third lever.
That drill bit is .071" in diameter.
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