Post by tpelle on Apr 16, 2018 9:13:29 GMT -5
Ever since I adopted this FEG Counterfeit FN pistol, I have been suspicious of the operation of the trigger lever and magazine disconnect. It has never given me trouble during actual firing or dry-firing, but if the pistol were field stripped, and I manually moved the trigger lever back and forth, the trigger lever would "hang up" in the middle of its recess. The only thing I could see wrong was that, while field stripped and with no magazine in place, there was visible brown rust on the magazine disconnect and its spring.
(There was similar rust on the firing pin spring, and the firing pin was visibly pitted, so I cleaned out the firing pin channel with pipe cleaners, and replaced the firing pin and spring.)
This condition with the magazine disconnect was eating away at me, so on a whim this morning I decided to remove it. I rested the trigger on a bottle cap, and had to use a pretty sharp rap with a punch and hammer to get the pin in the trigger out. Then it was just a matter of disjointing the trigger lever and using a dental pick to pull out the disconnect plunger and to pick the spring out of its bore in the trigger. The very fact that I had to use a dental pick to pull these parts out is clear evidence that the mag disconnect plunger was not properly moving back and forth.
This seems to have fixed the issue with the trigger lever, and the trigger pull no longer has that gritty take up. Trigger reset is easily felt when dry firing.
As a bonus, the mags - even empty ones - now drop free.
I reassembled and dry fired the pistol a bunch of times, and the trigger reset seems to be more positive, and the trigger spring seems to have plenty of oomph to reset the trigger positively.
I continue to use this pistol as my EDC, carrying it in an El Paso Saddlery Summer Comfort clone made for a 1911.
It appears that whoever refinished it (the Israelis I presume, as it was mixed in with a bunch of police and IDF Hi Powers that they surplused) did not bother removing the firing pin or disassembling the trigger assembly when they reparkerized it.
But beyond these teething pains the pistol has been 100% reliable, even feeding my Federal 9BP JHP ammo perfectly, so I am very happy with this pistol.
(There was similar rust on the firing pin spring, and the firing pin was visibly pitted, so I cleaned out the firing pin channel with pipe cleaners, and replaced the firing pin and spring.)
This condition with the magazine disconnect was eating away at me, so on a whim this morning I decided to remove it. I rested the trigger on a bottle cap, and had to use a pretty sharp rap with a punch and hammer to get the pin in the trigger out. Then it was just a matter of disjointing the trigger lever and using a dental pick to pull out the disconnect plunger and to pick the spring out of its bore in the trigger. The very fact that I had to use a dental pick to pull these parts out is clear evidence that the mag disconnect plunger was not properly moving back and forth.
This seems to have fixed the issue with the trigger lever, and the trigger pull no longer has that gritty take up. Trigger reset is easily felt when dry firing.
As a bonus, the mags - even empty ones - now drop free.
I reassembled and dry fired the pistol a bunch of times, and the trigger reset seems to be more positive, and the trigger spring seems to have plenty of oomph to reset the trigger positively.
I continue to use this pistol as my EDC, carrying it in an El Paso Saddlery Summer Comfort clone made for a 1911.
It appears that whoever refinished it (the Israelis I presume, as it was mixed in with a bunch of police and IDF Hi Powers that they surplused) did not bother removing the firing pin or disassembling the trigger assembly when they reparkerized it.
But beyond these teething pains the pistol has been 100% reliable, even feeding my Federal 9BP JHP ammo perfectly, so I am very happy with this pistol.
