Adventures with M57 Tokarev

[Zorba]

Originally Posted by Olle

BTW: The firing pin assembly in these is more complicated than in the original TT-33, so I would not recommend taking it apart unless you really have to. I believe they modified it to work with the factory frame mounted thumb safety on other models, and the reassembly is a royal PITA.

The 'net is full of people who say to not disassemble the FP on these at any cost - but I really didn't find it to be much of a problem. Watch "targetpopper's" reassy video (linked from mine), it really isn't bad. Took me about 20 seconds and no swearing.