new luger-JAM NO ****

Zamo · 12-27-2007, 11:30 PM

AH HA!
Seeing as nobody has seen fit to post a plausible explanation to my situation, I have decided to resolve it by myself.

It seems it isn't so much that the aftermarket sideplate is 100% bad, it's just...different...and innocent of being the real culpret in this malfunction. The true fiend, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the TRIGGER RETURN SPRING!!!

Indeed, if I hand-cycle the action I can now fully reproduce both the malfunction, AND it's resolution! By letting up on the trigger AND pushing it forward (thanks in great deal to Georg Lugers' nearly 3/4 crescent trigger design), I can get the "snick" which brings the action back to the cocked position. Where as just letting the (weak) trigger return spring push it back into place (about 50% of it's travel it seems), the side plate lever does not have sufficiant throw to disengage and allow the weapon to complete its cocking cycle.
I actually think there may be a conspiracy at play with these two villians, and I think it is both a weak trigger return spring, along with an incorrect bevel on the (reproduction) side plate lever which are combining to perpetrate this malfunction.
I am going to replace the spring and hand file a slightly better bevel (more akin to that found on the functioning S/42), and see if it improves it. If I screw the lever up, I replace it, and am in no worse situation than I am now.
I sure wish I had made this my own thread.
It gets lonely in here...

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12-27-2007, 11:30 PM	#1
Zamo User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Washington State Posts: 142 Thanks: 4 Thanked 13 Times in 9 Posts	AH HA! Seeing as nobody has seen fit to post a plausible explanation to my situation, I have decided to resolve it by myself. It seems it isn't so much that the aftermarket sideplate is 100% bad, it's just...different...and innocent of being the real culpret in this malfunction. The true fiend, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the TRIGGER RETURN SPRING!!! Indeed, if I hand-cycle the action I can now fully reproduce both the malfunction, AND it's resolution! By letting up on the trigger AND pushing it forward (thanks in great deal to Georg Lugers' nearly 3/4 crescent trigger design), I can get the "snick" which brings the action back to the cocked position. Where as just letting the (weak) trigger return spring push it back into place (about 50% of it's travel it seems), the side plate lever does not have sufficiant throw to disengage and allow the weapon to complete its cocking cycle. I actually think there may be a conspiracy at play with these two villians, and I think it is both a weak trigger return spring, along with an incorrect bevel on the (reproduction) side plate lever which are combining to perpetrate this malfunction. I am going to replace the spring and hand file a slightly better bevel (more akin to that found on the functioning S/42), and see if it improves it. If I screw the lever up, I replace it, and am in no worse situation than I am now. I sure wish I had made this my own thread. It gets lonely in here...