Hi to all! Sometimes, not very often, a problem will show up to where you can load your sheet metal type magazine and shoot it empty, and it will drop free as normal, and the very next time you load and shoot empty, it won't drop free???? Or, you can load the magazine up and it won't go in properly, even with the toggle locked back???
When a magazine exhibits symptoms like this, there is a very good chance, that the magazine is, "Loose in the seams!" the two vertical folded seams, one on each side running from top to bottom..
The proper way to diagnose this problem is to sight down the rear spine and see if it, (the rear spine flat) is perfectly square and flat along it's entire length, or, if there is a slight twist from bottom to top?
If you suspect a problem, insert the first inch of the magazine into the frame, and gently twist the remainder of the magazine in the direction you determine needed to correct the twist.. Of course this is only a temporary fix, and in order to repair permanently, you would have to re-stamp it in a forming die and press as was done originally? I do not have this capability at this time, so just about anything you can rig up hydraulically will be the next best effort... Like Eugene recently discovered... 20 to 50 ton is not overkill!
Best to all, til...lat'r....GT......
