How to fix a sloppy safety?

[Olle]

Originally Posted by John Sabato

Your idea gave me another "more elegant" idea. Drill your blind hold where the nub used to be and either peen or Loctite an appropriately sized ball bearing into the hole with enough sticking out to perform the job of the original nub.

That's kinda the way it's done on the LA-22, but in an über elegant way: It has a spring loaded ball that is staked in place so it can't pop out. The scale of this contraption would make it a pretty difficult retrofit, but it would be the Cadillac of safety levers when it's done.