06/73 Grip Retaining Pin ???

[DonVoigt]

Rich,
it has been in a couple or more threads, maybe on the other luger forum.
But basically, Mauser used a pin to locate the wood grips on the frame with a corresponding hole in the wood grip, it was/is not a satisfactory arrangement and leads to cracking, "wallowing" out the hole, and grips that move around.

A "short cut" that Mauser thought that they could use to reduce mfg. time for the grips, I guess; then it bit them .

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

But basically, Mauser used a pin to locate the wood grips on the frame with a corresponding hole in the wood grip, it was/is not a satisfactory arrangement and leads to cracking, "wallowing" out the hole, and grips that move around..

Is this in addition to the grip screw on the bottom, and tucking into the frame on the top, or does it take the place of one or the other???

Does anyone have a pic, maybe from the owners manual, of the parts schematic showing this???

(Gawd, I'm turning into Eric!)

[Vlim]

Ok.

The first version used 2 brass pins set into the grip edge.
Drawback was that the grips had to be thick at the edges to provide enough mass to hold the pins.

The second solution was to have a central pin in the frame which would retain the grips. Cheaper to do and allowing the grips to be contoured better.

With age, the grips dry out and develop some play around the retaining pin.

So both solutions eventually proved not to work well. At least they tried and it was not a short cut.

[sheepherder]

My bad; this was discussed here several times before. Once in a post started by me. I guess I am getting old...

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=37169

I'm glad you two pointed this out. I had once again had it in mind to purchase one of these, and once again I've decided against it.

[Vlim]

Went though the collection to look for a version with center pin.

...I don't have one of those, only early styles...

Now I have to find one