Luger wear
 

I'm adding this here cause I'm referring to a 1918 Erfurt, but it applies to all shooters. Where the toggle strikes the frame to unlock is showing wear. If this has been discussed before I missed it, but using the guidelines of "none, noticeable, minor, appreciable, significant, major, and flattened out", mine would be in the "significant" area but only on one side. Starting to flatten a little. Toggle and frame match, any suggestions to keep this from worsening except for quit shooting (God forbid) it?

thanks

rk

IT is going to wear RK... remember that 1918 was a LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG time ago and the piece has seen a few rounds put through it.

The fact that the wear is one sided indicates that it touches that side first so the toggle unlocks before it smacks the other side real hard. This may be the result of the gun being refinished at some point and the ramp on the non-wear side may have received a bit more polishing than the other.

You could minimize the wear by using reduced loads and tuning the mainspring (recoil spring) for function, but unless the gun cost you a fortune there is really no remedy... just like you and I, this gun will eventually wear out...

If you don't want it to wear out, then nichts schiessen!

Yah right John... ole RK can't have a wallhanger! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

RK, wear on one side on a 1918 is not really wear, it is just bedding itself in. Sort of like Harley Davidsons, they don't leak oil, they mark their spot.

heinz

RK; a little extreme pressure grease will slow down the process.
Lonnie

Just my luck. I pay way too much for a gun, work on it for months to get it shooting, start reloading mainly to match bullets to the thing, put up with abuse from my wife and folks who don't think guns are for shooting, hang around here cause I have to have help to keep it shooting, bad looks from my dog, ridicule from my buddies ("You paid what for that? That's more than my four wheeler cost. Ken got a Russian wife and it didn't cost that much"), and now you tell me to hang it up?

RK, I not sure you need to hang it up. Try to determine if your toggle is striking on the side with the wear and the otherside is not quite touching when the break occurs. You can buy some very thin plastic strips with marking compound that are made for this. Or you can put a little layout dye on both side of the fram and see if it is remoced on only one side when working the action. If it hits one sided just lightly stone the rolled over edge off until it finallyy beds itself in. Stoning the edge off works best under magnification. You can buy a pair of reading glasses of 2.0 power and get done close to the piece.

Is this the original toggle? AND I assuming this is a shooter, not a holster queen.

Thanks, I'll try that later. Its the original toggle, and no, no holster queen. Definitely a shooter. Holster queens are like high maintenance women. Good to look at and have around, not much use for anything else. Good advice. Not familar with high pressure grease though.

rk

On a similar note, how many rounds is a Luger good for? Have any tests or estimates been done as to how many cycles these things can take?
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