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[G.T.]

Hi to all! Well, had another dose of all day crazy repair effort yesterday! I am currently finishing up some repair jobs that also involved blue and straw! Turned out pretty good for shooters, just not all polished out and rounded over! Well, somewhere along the way, I decided that the trigger spring will be a, "must do" replacement item, seeing only positive trigger return, and frankly, no down side?
Soooo, I get it all together and dry fire it at the bench and it won't go off!!!! I squeeze it as hard as I can and no dice, after several disassemblies and parts swapping, I can just barely get it to work with about fifty pound trigger pull!!! keep in mind that the gun worked fine prior to the re-blue. So here is where the crazy starts sneaking in... You find yourself doing the same thing over and over and expect different results... And, unfortunatly, I know this! So, before I get to, "Dog sh$$t nuts!" I stopped and reviewed. and fortunatly, I start right at the heart of the issue, the trigger spring no-brainer replacement. Turns out the spring, (aftermarket) Is made with extremely heavy spring wire, and as such, the coils were stacking and not allowing the trigger to go back far enough to trip the sear. Duh! Now I am creating my own problems... So, in retrospect, the trigger should go back all the way to the frame, spring or no spring, every time in order to make the fire control parts have the correct takeup and overtravel.. I put an original spring in it, and right back to normal... Happy, happy, joy, joy! Hope this enlightens some of you, (like me) shade tree Luger techs! Best to all, til.....lat'r......GT
BTW, remember! We're all crazy, some of us just get caught!! Best, GT