Interesting finds after shooting my 1900 AE

skeeter4206 · 09-07-2012, 08:27 PM

As for the area yall are talking about to put the tape. I can visually see where the toggle has been hitting the frame as the metal is white and not blue anymore for a little portion of it.

As for the leaf springs, last night when I completely disassembled the gun, I took the grips off and looked at them. There are two springs in mine. I took a screwdriver and manually made the spring move backwards as I was curious if it was damaged. I didnt see anything visually. The WFMT was kinda limited in this area trying to see any indications. But saying that, the spring was kinda easy to make move backwards. I mean it still has good tension, but not what I would expect it to be.

All in all after hearing yall discuss the toggle action, I am convinced that the toggle is out of whack. Looks to be it has some play between toogle sections at the pin connections. Im just gonna keep it around as a conversation piece and get me a good shooter. I already talked to my local gunsmith and he knows someone who has one for $400. So Ill check it out and maybe, hell hopefully get to shoot it before I buy it.

Ed - level III
Thats interesting finding someone on here that does what I do for a living. As for me I am level II MT, PT, UT, VT and also have my API 653, API 510 and API QUTE shearwave cert for american petroleum institute. That was a hard practical let me tell you.

But seeing that your in virginia I curious who you work for. I was working for Longview Inspection/Acuren until last summer and now I work for Applied Technical Services.

Anywho... Thanks again for all yalls feedback. Hopefully my next luger will be a good enough shooter gun that I just enjoy.

Thanks
Skeeter

09-07-2012, 08:27 PM	#18
skeeter4206 User Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Augusta, GA Posts: 448 Thanks: 52 Thanked 88 Times in 49 Posts	As for the area yall are talking about to put the tape. I can visually see where the toggle has been hitting the frame as the metal is white and not blue anymore for a little portion of it. As for the leaf springs, last night when I completely disassembled the gun, I took the grips off and looked at them. There are two springs in mine. I took a screwdriver and manually made the spring move backwards as I was curious if it was damaged. I didnt see anything visually. The WFMT was kinda limited in this area trying to see any indications. But saying that, the spring was kinda easy to make move backwards. I mean it still has good tension, but not what I would expect it to be. All in all after hearing yall discuss the toggle action, I am convinced that the toggle is out of whack. Looks to be it has some play between toogle sections at the pin connections. Im just gonna keep it around as a conversation piece and get me a good shooter. I already talked to my local gunsmith and he knows someone who has one for $400. So Ill check it out and maybe, hell hopefully get to shoot it before I buy it. Ed - level III Thats interesting finding someone on here that does what I do for a living. As for me I am level II MT, PT, UT, VT and also have my API 653, API 510 and API QUTE shearwave cert for american petroleum institute. That was a hard practical let me tell you. But seeing that your in virginia I curious who you work for. I was working for Longview Inspection/Acuren until last summer and now I work for Applied Technical Services. Anywho... Thanks again for all yalls feedback. Hopefully my next luger will be a good enough shooter gun that I just enjoy. Thanks Skeeter