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Offline Hooligan

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Re-Adjust Adjustable Sear?
« on: February 14, 2019, 01:19:44 PM »
I have a Compact that I have installed pretty much all of the springs/parts w/CGW components, including a race hammer and the adjustable sear. While it was apart, I polished (minimally) the internals, but am thinking a further polishing might be in order.  Of course when I installed the new hammer/sear, I made the proper adjustment to the sear and red loktited the adjustment screw, as recommended.  My question is, if I do disassemble for further polishing, will I have to readjust the sear? I hate to do that, as I know all of the sear cage/parts ARE polished well and do not need to be worked on any further.

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Re: Re-Adjust Adjustable Sear?
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2019, 04:12:43 PM »
I would readjust it.  Just be sure to clean all the old Loctite off.

Then after all polishing just adjust like you did the first time and Loctite it back.

Good luck,
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Offline midaltantic44

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Re: Re-Adjust Adjustable Sear?
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2019, 06:09:17 PM »
Problem is getting that tiny screw free. Supposed to use heat I think for red. Boil it?

Offline Earl Keese

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Re: Re-Adjust Adjustable Sear?
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2019, 06:59:51 PM »
 I don't see why you'd need to readjust it. If the safety engages properly as is, and you will still be using the race hammer it should be fine. The adjustment is just for safety engagement, nothing more.
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Re: Re-Adjust Adjustable Sear?
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2019, 08:07:06 PM »
I don't see why you'd need to readjust it. If the safety engages properly as is, and you will still be using the race hammer it should be fine. The adjustment is just for safety engagement, nothing more.

Yup.  It doesn't adjust the engagement of the sear/hammer.

It adjusts to keep the sear from moving when the trigger bar makes contact with it.  Or rather, adjusts so that the safety, when in the SAFE position, keeps the sear from moving.  When you "adjust" the screw that's what you're doing.  You turn the screw "down" till the cam on the left side safety shaft makes contact with the tip/bottom of the screw. 

I can tell you, the adjustable sear beats the heck out of doing it the old fashioned way (stoning metal off the cam lobe to properly mesh with the arm on the sear (BTDT).

Check it to be sure though.  The race hammer will have a much shallower notch than most of the factory hammers so the sear won't have to move as much to release it.  As long as the distance from the hammer pin to the bottom of that notch is similar to the factory hammer you may find no adjustment is necessary.

This stuff is fun, working on your pistol and learning stuff, I mean.
I just keep wasting time and money on other brands trying to find/make one shoot like my P07 and P09.  What is wrong with me?

Offline Hooligan

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Re: Re-Adjust Adjustable Sear?
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2019, 02:18:06 PM »
Thanks for the replies!  I thoroughly understand the functions as well as the adj. sear/saftey interaction requirement with the shorter hooks of the race hammer.  I was just hoping I wouldn't have to disassemble the sear cage in order to de-loktite the sear screw.  I'm inherently lazy  ;)! I'll take it down, polish what I need,then reinstall and test the safety function. If it's GTG, great; if not, work, work, work it is!

Again, thanks!  Great site here and GREAT members!  I've gained a lot of knowledge through y'all and words can't express my appreciation.

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Re: Re-Adjust Adjustable Sear?
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2019, 04:55:33 PM »
You shouldn't have to mess with the sear cage.

Unload it.
Remove the slide.
Adjustable sear screw is sticking up out of the forward arm on the sear right there in the open.
Head it up with a soldering gun (if you have one) and turn the screw loose and remove it (if you find it requires adjustment - hopefully it won't).
Clean up/off the loctite on the screw threads and the threads in the sear arm.
Wipe the threads off with some alcohol again.
Let it dry.
Apply loctite.
Insert the screw and adjust it.
Set it aside to dry.
Reassemble the pistol.

I just removed the slide on my Compact to look at it.

Wanna know the whole story?  I grabbed the P01 Omega first and unloaded it and removed the slide and then realized I'd grabbed the wrong pistol.  Had a hard morning/afternoon working on some brake issues on the truck.  That up/down/crawl around, fight with nuts/bolts that are hard to get to and have years of rust on them and now I'm done with, hopefully forever.  At 3,000 miles a year the new rotors, brake hoses, calipers and pads should last longer than I'll be driving it.

Good luck with the sear.  Now, to put my SAO CZ75 Compact (that looks like a P01) back together again and wipe it down to put away.
I just keep wasting time and money on other brands trying to find/make one shoot like my P07 and P09.  What is wrong with me?