Black Majik
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Last nite I attempted to detail strip my Beretta 92FS, and perform a trigger job on it. I ended up finishing at close to 4 o'clock in the morning. The threads over at Berettaforum.net have helped tremendously. Extra thanks to Texas guy for his videos at www.beretta92fs.com
Texasguy's videos helped me a LOT, videos are much easier to watch than looking at pictures, but even pictures from the guys at beretta-e.org.
It took me about 6 1/2 hours to finish everything, starting roughly after 10pm and finishing around 3:45am. I'm a slow learner, I also polished the sear and hammer as mentioned.
I'm surprised by how rough the hammer was. It also didn't help that I polished everything using only a cotton cloth and polishing cream. I think I'm going to have to re polish a few parts using fine grit sandpaper. There are some parts that still aren't smooth, such as the parts on the hammer and the back of the trigger bar where it meets the sear. The trigger bar was really rough, and my cloth couldn't help it at all.
I had a heck of a time trying to get that sear spring. It took an hour and a half for me to get the sear pin thru the sear spring. I tried using paper clips, bobby pin, tweezers from a swiss army knife, safety pins.... I finally got it with a push pin. It was pretty easy then.
Next was the damn trigger spring. I first found out I put it in backwards, and fixed it using the extra fine knife of my swiss army knife to get the trigger spring to ride atop the trigger bar.
Lastly, that damn mag catch. Putting it in was quite frusterating. That took about half an hour, but I think I still have no idea how to put it in. I got lucky, I doubt I'm gonna take that apart again since it was irrelevant to anything.
Oh yeah, upon being frustated trying to get the stock hammer in, I actually put the freaking hammer upside down at first. No wonder it wouldn't line up with the hammer pin hole! LOL
After putting everything together... My DA still sucks balls. Its still long and I can feel it a little gritty. My single action has lost the creep, but its still heavy as well.
I do have a D-spring coming in via Mr. Brad Taylor from www.berettacollection.com ... hopefully it comes in soon. I can't wait to see how it'll help with my trigger pull.
It did help my single action... but I doubt it did much that I could tell of my DA trigger pull. I'll have to re-polish certain parts as I mentioned earlier, and see how it goes.
...and I thought detail stripping a 1911 was difficult...
Texasguy's videos helped me a LOT, videos are much easier to watch than looking at pictures, but even pictures from the guys at beretta-e.org.
It took me about 6 1/2 hours to finish everything, starting roughly after 10pm and finishing around 3:45am. I'm a slow learner, I also polished the sear and hammer as mentioned.
I'm surprised by how rough the hammer was. It also didn't help that I polished everything using only a cotton cloth and polishing cream. I think I'm going to have to re polish a few parts using fine grit sandpaper. There are some parts that still aren't smooth, such as the parts on the hammer and the back of the trigger bar where it meets the sear. The trigger bar was really rough, and my cloth couldn't help it at all.
I had a heck of a time trying to get that sear spring. It took an hour and a half for me to get the sear pin thru the sear spring. I tried using paper clips, bobby pin, tweezers from a swiss army knife, safety pins.... I finally got it with a push pin. It was pretty easy then.
Next was the damn trigger spring. I first found out I put it in backwards, and fixed it using the extra fine knife of my swiss army knife to get the trigger spring to ride atop the trigger bar.
Lastly, that damn mag catch. Putting it in was quite frusterating. That took about half an hour, but I think I still have no idea how to put it in. I got lucky, I doubt I'm gonna take that apart again since it was irrelevant to anything.
Oh yeah, upon being frustated trying to get the stock hammer in, I actually put the freaking hammer upside down at first. No wonder it wouldn't line up with the hammer pin hole! LOL
After putting everything together... My DA still sucks balls. Its still long and I can feel it a little gritty. My single action has lost the creep, but its still heavy as well.
I do have a D-spring coming in via Mr. Brad Taylor from www.berettacollection.com ... hopefully it comes in soon. I can't wait to see how it'll help with my trigger pull.
It did help my single action... but I doubt it did much that I could tell of my DA trigger pull. I'll have to re-polish certain parts as I mentioned earlier, and see how it goes.
...and I thought detail stripping a 1911 was difficult...