First post/First Luger/First problem

[John Sabato]

The permanent fix... you have to increase the top surface where you installed the tape.

How?

--Some have actually worked to bend a little more tightness in the L lever... but this is a hardened part and VERY subject to breakage... unless you are a machinist, I would not use this solution.

--Micro welding and the recontouring the surface where you put the tape so it works...(but this is an all matching gun, so I am not sure you will want to do that).

--buy a replacement lever (see member Lugerdoc and hope he has one for sale, or put a WTB post in that forum, and if anyone has one for sale, they will contact you.) Some fitting may be required. You can remove the lever by putting a flat screwdriver blade behind the dogleg in the pin that holds it and pop it outward to release it.

--You can create an L-shaped shim that fits in the slot in the trigger to reduce the space that the lever uses. I created one like that out of a thin aluminum soda can once when I didn't have the money for a new lever, and used that gun for years... just be mindful on disassembly that you don't lose your shim.

--You can even try a drop of metallized epoxy (J-B Weld?) on the lever where you put the tape, and when it is dry and hard, shape it to provide the trigger performance you are looking for...

beyond these suggestions, you can use your own imagination on solving this engineering problem... just avoid anything that permanently modifies the original parts if you care about future value... if you are creating a shooter... then you have no limits on modifications... just make it shoot.

Glad I could help.