CZ 82 Slide Stop Spring Replacement

[pawn]

I managed to lose the slide stop spring for my CZ 82.  If I understand correctly, this is the part that retains the slide release mechanism to the frame.  Brought the pistol to my gunsmith and he's had the part on backorder for months.  I checked the CZ-USA website and they have the same part available for the CZ 83 but indicate installing on CZ 82 requires slight modification. 

Can anyone please tell me what this modification involves?  I've order (2) for $2 a piece and plan to bring em to my smith and hopefully that will get me back to the range soon.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

[PTGT_Neon]

it involves drilling a small hole in the frame.  You should have a look on an 83 before you do it. 

But its a little more involved than that.  The 83 uses a spring pin instead of the 82 solid pin.  To fit the spring pin, the small 2mm hole needs to be opened up to 3mm like the other one.  And then the trigger guard needs to be shaved a bit to accommodate it. 

Or, you can take the new spring and bend it till it looks and works like the old one.  I recommend doing it this way.

[BigK]

Before you go drilling the frame and ordering parts for a different gun from CZ-USA, let me save you a LOT of time.

I asked the same question a few weeks back and was steered in the same wrong direction you're headed. Luckily a member (thank you marcodelat) gave me a link to another board.

A man named Norm Sutton in Lakeland, FL makes/sells the part you need. He's awesome and he saved me from drilling the frame of my 1986 CZ 82. If you send him $5 via PayPal, he'll have them in the mail in no time.

What kind of trigger guard latch do you have is it solid with on end thinner than the other and a groove in the thick end for the slide stop spring to rest in OR is it a tension pin, which looks like a tube split end to end with a thinner pin inside?