Anyone rebuild CZ-82s?

[noway]

Like a proverbial idiot I stripped mine down to refinish.

That part was easy enough, but rebuilding the sear assembly is a nightmare. I have been spending odd hours over the past month trying to: 1) insert the extractor smoothly, and 2) hooking the sear leg in the 'automatic safety'. Best to leave well-enough alone in future.

Does anyone have a lead on a smith who can rebuild these? Nice gun, but that particular sub-assembly is ridiculously fussy.

Also, I will never, ever duracoat a gun again as long as I live...

[studenygreg]

I feel your pain. I detail stripped my cz 83 for ceracote and ot took me forever to get back together.

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[Stuart]

We (CZ Custom) can re-assemble if you have all the parts
The last one we rebuilt took forever. Parts are getting near impossible to find.

[noway]

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[geen]

The sear spring is tough.  Check out these sites:

  http://leolani.net/relics/cz82.html

It should help

I also made a tool by cutting off the tip of a finishing nail and used a dremel to cut a smal slit in the middle. just need to put a small cut just enough to catach the sear sping. when I first blued a cz82 I coue not get the sear spring back in and tried to find a gunsmith to do it and had no luck. just take your time put it the gun down if you get frustrated and come back later. your will get it.

if you want to see my finished gun check there are pics in this forums classified section.

[Laufer]

Good luck.     

Even with the much easier Sig P6 and (3rd. Gen) S&W 6904, I twice watched specific, well-illuminated videos (must also be Close-up depictions) before I considered disassembling the frames.

And did this to simply to change trigger groups and the pin retainer plates in my multiple AKMs.

Before I bought my first CZ-82 years ago, not much reading made it clear that some Czech handguns have about Twice as many components as a much simpler Makarov.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv31Mr1XLsE



Is the sear spring the only true difficult part ?   Maybe this can help somebody?

Note: the only handgun frames I've totally dis/reassembled are the Sig P6/225 and a 3rd. Gen. S&W 6904.

This guy Emphasizes that if you insert a "V ish" - shaped spring the Wrong Way, one of the legs, due to a compressed tiny coil, is now over 1mm shorter than it should be.
If so, first go buy a new spring............at 5:40 he puts- - what Looks like the same " sort of V " spring --  on the left side of the receiver, but it's Not a very clear video for that. This step must be a real bitch. 

At 6:32 he tried to get the larger piece on Top of the spring, while it blocks the view of the spring. 

--------At 7:22, he has his punch already inserted into this larger component, as he then lowers it onto the area which has that tiny spring ("...and make sure that the autosear is all the way down..."), to allow the correct spring leg to extend into the proper area. He explains/shows how to do it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uki0Ta75oQw


Can this video help anybody? 


The tinier parts are often easier to See, better lighting,  in this reassembly---at 33:56  , that weird V spring is inserted by itself, compared to how the previous video depicts it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46HIlWXXruU

[barrelproofdrinker88]

If there’s a way to PM me please shoot me info, thanks!

How did this end up going?  I am debating a reblue but the reassembly looks really complex.