All right!!! The reblued and refinished Luger parts arrived today from Danner Gunsmithing! Charles & Sons did their usual excellent job of removing pits, scratches, blemishes, and oxidation!
Top pic shows parts as they were sent to Danner etc, bottom pic is as they came out of the box after refinishing.
Now to reassemble this Swedish sight-equipped long barreled Luger!
1. Reviewing all the parts, I noticed that I had milled out the V-notch in the Swedish Mauser sight leaf to a squqre 'Patridge' style notch but had neglected the slider V. So, here is the slider being milled. I only milled down to the bottom of the original V.
2. The bare frame is clamped to a suitably stable table. I clamp on the inside of the magazine tunnel. First item to be installed was the recoil lever and its pin. These were pushed on and I went on to the mainspring and its guide. I 'threaded' the mainspring on to the guide to simplify installation.
3. Now the captive mainspring and guide are slid into the frame and a steel rod (red line) used to compress the spring while using a pick (or small screwdriver) to guide the hook on the mainspring guide onto the recoil lever. (Jim Solomon's mainspring tool could be used here, but I had used the knobbed-rod before and was familiar with it so that's what I used). That completes the mainspring installation.
4. Next I installed the safety bar, safety catch, and safety pin. Tapped the pin in place with a suitable drift.
Continuing reassembly.
5. The hold-open assembly is installed next. I use a razor blade to hold the spring while pushing down and forward on the hold-open latch. Next, the locking bolt spring and locking bolt were inserted, and the trigger and trigger spring and the magazine catch and its spring were also slid into place. All push-on pieces; no special tools or procedure needed.
6. This completes the reassembly of the Luger lower assembly. Danner & Associates strawed the magazine catch, locking bolt, safety catch, and trigger as part of their refinishing. Looks good!!!
Next up is the reassembly of the upper ('cannon') assembly.
7. Reassembling the trigger lever in the trigger plate. Line up the lever and slide in the pin.
8. Using a drift to rotate the pin into the locked podition.
Moving on to the last of the reassemblies.
9. Using an undersize pin to line up the Swedish Mauser rear sight leaf, and tapping the sight pin in.
10. Torqueing the front sight base in place, using the aluminum spanner and a large Crescent wrench to line up my marks.
That pretty much completes the reassembly of the Swedish rear sight 1600 meter Luger. I have a set of new grips but they need fitting, which I really suck at.
I've attached a couple pics of the left/right/top for now. I'll try to get a set of pics with grips in a good light.