P08 Trigger Lever Pin Broke - Help

CaliforniaMike · 12-16-2016, 09:21 AM

You can use 3/32" steel rod and peen one end of an approx. 3/8" long piece and then blue the rod. Push the new peened pin in from the outer side of the side frame and the take down lever will hide and prevent the pin from coming out. You have not modified your gun and it has worked for me after several hundred rds. Mine is a 1940/42 "Black Widow" model that looks like it did the day it was made.

sheepherder · 12-16-2016, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by CaliforniaMike

You can use 3/32" steel rod...

That would be an excellent 'field expedient' repair, but maybe not for long term use. 3/32" is .0938" and the Luger blueprint calls for 2.5mm rod = .0984". ~.004" doesn't sound like much but it's that much more slack in the trigger chain. Pin inside trigger lever = .004"; pin inside trigger plate is another .004". So that's .008" slack - the thickness of two sheets of ruled notebook paper.

You're shooting a slacker!

(Back To The Future II!)

12-16-2016, 09:21 AM	#1
CaliforniaMike New User Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Apple Valley, Ca Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 3 Posts	You can use 3/32" steel rod and peen one end of an approx. 3/8" long piece and then blue the rod. Push the new peened pin in from the outer side of the side frame and the take down lever will hide and prevent the pin from coming out. You have not modified your gun and it has worked for me after several hundred rds. Mine is a 1940/42 "Black Widow" model that looks like it did the day it was made.