Shadow Trigger Job ending with 4#DA

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I did a little more work to the hammer. I carefully sanded the hammer bed with 1000 grit paper. Be careful not to damage the hooks and go very slowly.



Sanding in the directions of the arrows gave me the most control.



A better photo of the file with the sandpaper glued on using rubber cement.



For working on springs I chuck them in the drill press and use rolled up sandpaper to debur the inside. Set it to a low speed or your going to find out drill presses are really used to hurl projectiles at you. I set mine for 200 RPM. Here is the mainspring:



A q-tip can help with the outside of the spring. I chucked the q-tip to the drill press and placed the firing pin spring over it. Now I can work the entire outside length of the spring.

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I tried CCI primers yesterday at the range. I had 3 out of 100 fail to ignite. I wish I had the 11.5# MS from CGW just to try, I think it would have worked flawlessly. I did everything I could think of to increase reliability. I have an extended firing pin, fluffed and buffed to a shine and reduced the firing pin spring that was polished inside and out. I'm wondering if a lighter pin might work. I might get an extra and try drilling some relief holes just to see what happens.

It is 100% with Federal Primers. I have about 500 of them through it so far with no failures.

[Stuart]

the 11.5# should work..
I did a set up on a Phantom with the that weight mainspring and it went 100%

[schmeky]

nothing,

I think you should change your user name to "something".  Your pics and tutorials are excellent, you are a great contributor to this forum.

I may have a solution to the "other primers" problem.  I have been working on an extended FP and special spring that are working well, so far.  Typical extended FP's are around 2.480" +/-.  I have machined some that are 2.490" and even with the HS-8500 CGW hammer spring, I am seeing excellent ignition.  So, we may be able to have our cake and, well, you know . . . .

I should know in the next few weeks.  I would like to get some out for testing to verify my findings.

[Stuart]

Thank you Schmeky..
love the idea of 2.490

[Chiz]

(Nothing) I just read your post on the Shadow and I was very impressed. I think this was the best article I've read on this fourm yet... I wish there were more knowledgable people willing to take the time to explain how to improve our guns. Thank you for your post.

[mischief]

Just wanted to say THANKS! I've always wanted to know how to pull my shadow to bits, now I know.

[400driver]

Does it matter from which side you knock the pins out from?

[Yer]

Wanting an update on the primer issue.

[el capitan]

I just collected all of my courage and polished the hammer hooks. Wow. I had already polished the underside as well as the face of the sear and the grittyness was reduced, but still noticeable. After a few careful and weak strokes with 400 and 1000 grit sandpaper over the hammer hooks (sandpaper simply put around the magazine brake) I reassembled the gun and the dryfire is already promising. Together with a 13# hammer spring the trigger is already way better than stock (that had not been THAT bad).
If it wasn?t for the 75 Sport (SA only, professional trigger-job done, nearly a hair-trigger) I dryfired yesterday I?d estimate this as the beginning of a trigger becoming a good one. Even before taking out the bar and polishing it. The upper side of the bar looks neat as it is, but the cuts on the backside sure could need some work, currently showing deep machine marks.

A big thank you to all of you, namely schmeky and nothing for providing such well-founded how-to instructions! All I did today was achieved within 12 minutes, using only my leatherman - no punches, no hammers, no scratches on any part. It?s amazing how fast the unknown turns into routine as soon as you dare to touch it.

[bef]

Your Trigger Job looks very nice, but now-you know the new business model of Photobucket has changed-the pictures quality is very poor now. Do you see any possibility to store the picture in the forum now.
Thanks a lot
bef

[Rantoschae]

Unfortunately the Quality of the Pictures makes all your work unreproduceble.

[DOC 1500]

Unfortunately the Quality of the Pictures makes all your work unreproduceble.

REALLY This man did a great job. anybody that can't reproduce it shouldn't be taking a gun apart.
On my po7 and po9 I got a very smooth and low pound trigger pull because of the information on this forum.
Rantoschae , this is your second post, and this is how you introduce yourself,  yeah ok.

[eastman]

Unfortunately the Quality of the Pictures makes all your work unreproduceble.

REALLY This man did a great job. anybody that can't reproduce it shouldn't be taking a gun apart.
On my po7 and po9 I got a very smooth and low pound trigger pull because of the information on this forum.
Rantoschae , this is your second post, and this is how you introduce yourself,  yeah ok.

looks like P-bucket did blur all of the pictures (probably to extort $$ to not mess up the account)