Luv2shoot
3rd February 2006, 12:22
Hello all,
I recently purchased a new Springer (1911 in 9mm—PX9130L). So far I absolutely love it.
I have 600 rounds through her right now. The last time at the range, I was having some sporadic trigger issues. The 1st couple of shots, the trigger was nice, smooth, and light, but then all of the sudden became much harder to pull. The next shot was back to normal. Next magazine, same thing happened, light pulls, with some sporadic hard pulls.
Went home and got ready to start cleaning. Gave her a quick “once over” before field stripping to clean, and noticed something funny. There appeared to be some type of obstruction at the rear of the trigger (between the over travel stop screw and the magazine release) that was visible when looking down the mag well from the top with the slide locked to the rear. When I moved the trigger, I could see the stop screw moving this “flap” around. I figured that this was the reason for my inconsistent trigger pull.
I detail stripped the pistol, took the trigger out, and this is what dropped into my hand:
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1687/19un.jpg
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5160/24ou.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/545/33nq.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4345/48az.jpg
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8898/59pd.jpg
It's about as thick as 2 pieces of paper and about as big as a pencil eraser. Anyone ever seen this before? I looked at all kinds of 1911 parts diagrams, and I don’t think that this is supposed to be in there, but I want to be sure before I trash this piece. My first guess was that this is some kind of shim that went between the trigger and the frame to keep the side to side trigger slop down, and that the curved part of this “shim” would fit against the magazine release. However, the contour of the mag release does not match the curve of the “shim”.
Any guesses other then some slag from the factory?
I recently purchased a new Springer (1911 in 9mm—PX9130L). So far I absolutely love it.
I have 600 rounds through her right now. The last time at the range, I was having some sporadic trigger issues. The 1st couple of shots, the trigger was nice, smooth, and light, but then all of the sudden became much harder to pull. The next shot was back to normal. Next magazine, same thing happened, light pulls, with some sporadic hard pulls.
Went home and got ready to start cleaning. Gave her a quick “once over” before field stripping to clean, and noticed something funny. There appeared to be some type of obstruction at the rear of the trigger (between the over travel stop screw and the magazine release) that was visible when looking down the mag well from the top with the slide locked to the rear. When I moved the trigger, I could see the stop screw moving this “flap” around. I figured that this was the reason for my inconsistent trigger pull.
I detail stripped the pistol, took the trigger out, and this is what dropped into my hand:
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1687/19un.jpg
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5160/24ou.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/545/33nq.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4345/48az.jpg
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8898/59pd.jpg
It's about as thick as 2 pieces of paper and about as big as a pencil eraser. Anyone ever seen this before? I looked at all kinds of 1911 parts diagrams, and I don’t think that this is supposed to be in there, but I want to be sure before I trash this piece. My first guess was that this is some kind of shim that went between the trigger and the frame to keep the side to side trigger slop down, and that the curved part of this “shim” would fit against the magazine release. However, the contour of the mag release does not match the curve of the “shim”.
Any guesses other then some slag from the factory?