Grip Safety Question

skeeter4206 · 06-07-2013, 08:26 PM

I have a 1900 AE with the grip safety on it. I was curious about the lever on it when the safety is off. Is that lever suppose to move freely, pretty much flop back and forth. Or is there suppose to be a spring of some sort that keeps it out until you grasp the grip and squeeze it shut. Now when you put the safety on it stays in place like it is suppose to. It almost seems to me that there should be a spring or something keeping it out until the gun is being used.

mrerick · 06-07-2013, 08:41 PM

There is a spring that fits at the base of the grip safety bar...

Marc

skeeter4206 · 06-07-2013, 09:05 PM

That makes since now. I see my issue, its a broken spring. It never caught my eye before cause I have never actually taken the grip safety apart.

I do appreciate it mark.

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skeeter4206 · 06-07-2013, 10:06 PM

This is what the spring looked like after I did take it out of the frame. I never even knew there was a spring located there. I guess I still got a little to learn about these guns. Any ideas where I might get one of these from?

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Ron Wood · 06-07-2013, 10:08 PM

They aren't terribly hard to replace and Tom Heller (Lugerdoc) has them.

skeeter4206 · 06-07-2013, 10:24 PM

Thats the first taking that whole assembly apart since I have had it. Looking at the actual thumb safety part. Was it not stamped with the SN like later versions were. The main bar under the grip hs the correct SN stamped on it,but the actual part that is exposed by the ears of the frame has no SN.

06-07-2013, 08:26 PM	#1
skeeter4206 User Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Augusta, GA Posts: 448 Thanks: 52 Thanked 88 Times in 49 Posts	Grip Safety Question I have a 1900 AE with the grip safety on it. I was curious about the lever on it when the safety is off. Is that lever suppose to move freely, pretty much flop back and forth. Or is there suppose to be a spring of some sort that keeps it out until you grasp the grip and squeeze it shut. Now when you put the safety on it stays in place like it is suppose to. It almost seems to me that there should be a spring or something keeping it out until the gun is being used.

06-07-2013, 08:41 PM	#2
mrerick Super Moderator - Patron LugerForum Life Patron Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Eastern North Carolina, USA Posts: 3,900 Thanks: 1,370 Thanked 3,094 Times in 1,503 Posts	Grip Safety Spring There is a spring that fits at the base of the grip safety bar... Marc Attached Images __________________ Igitur si vis pacem, para bellum - - Therefore if you want peace, prepare for war.

06-07-2013, 10:08 PM	#5
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 6,986 Thanks: 1,065 Thanked 5,088 Times in 1,674 Posts	They aren't terribly hard to replace and Tom Heller (Lugerdoc) has them. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

06-07-2013, 09:05 PM	#3
skeeter4206 User Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Augusta, GA Posts: 448 Thanks: 52 Thanked 88 Times in 49 Posts	That makes since now. I see my issue, its a broken spring. It never caught my eye before cause I have never actually taken the grip safety apart. I do appreciate it mark.

06-07-2013, 10:06 PM	#4
skeeter4206 User Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Augusta, GA Posts: 448 Thanks: 52 Thanked 88 Times in 49 Posts	This is what the spring looked like after I did take it out of the frame. I never even knew there was a spring located there. I guess I still got a little to learn about these guns. Any ideas where I might get one of these from?

06-07-2013, 10:24 PM	#6
skeeter4206 User Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Augusta, GA Posts: 448 Thanks: 52 Thanked 88 Times in 49 Posts	Thats the first taking that whole assembly apart since I have had it. Looking at the actual thumb safety part. Was it not stamped with the SN like later versions were. The main bar under the grip hs the correct SN stamped on it,but the actual part that is exposed by the ears of the frame has no SN.