Welp I am one of those guys that always said....they never bust.....but over this weekend I noticed mine was just that.....cracked.
After ringing some steel in an uneventful 4-5 mags I take the thing in to clean it.
Now I never really "cleaned" it....taking the "lower" trigger group apart and getting all the gook out of there...but figured....you know I bet this has never been done....looks a little nasty in there, I know it is a real b!tch to put it back together....but hay I put together model 8's I can deal with this right?!?!?
So taking it all apart, I notice the place where the front most pin goes through the "trigger group" the plastic there does not look quite correct....there is a little bump there. Take off the specs and sure enough there it is....a crack. WELL *&^#. I am thinking so a little super glue....epoxy...just how do you fix this. Well lets look online see if numrich or whatever they are called now has one and what it goes for....I bet it is buckets of money.
So I get online and start looking....humm I did not know there are two versions of this thing....ok...I got the "new" version....now lets see just how much I am going to be out....$100....$200....I am sure this is insane.
Nope $17.75....oh the horror....If I want a "real" used marlin one get ready to shell out the big bucks $19.75. Man oh man this is just insane.....they want an entire $20 bill....where do they get off..
Boy oh boy those guys that say these plastic things bust all the time....mine only lasted the better part of 40 years....cheap pile of junk....and now to fix it they want a jefferson....well I tell you those guys that bad mouth this plastic thing while making love to their glocks they really have showed me the truth.
Now to be real for a half minute......
Yea it did crack, and yea I am sure I could have put it back into service, but after seeing just how cheap the replacement parts are I just ordered the part.....this was yesterday.
Now I usually don't like leaving a gun apart for several days...I am old and will likely forget how to put it back together....and I don't have a book for this thing...so I guess I would need to find or order a book if I forget....but this time....wow.
I have never been as close to tossing things across the room as I have been with this thing....now off the top of my head.
There are like 6 welded pins on half of the "trigger group".....it looks a little like an over grown model 60....two metal plates with all the gutz inside. One E clip holds everything together.
Keeping everything lined up while you push these 6 pins through....well hell....I think I will make some pins to hold everything in place and let the "real" pins push the temp ones through. I don't usually leave parts out but thoughts of leaving the mag disconnect out really crossed my mind.
Now I know what all those little puzzles we had as kids are for...so you can turn this that way, tilt it this way, and gently tap so this thingy falls into place.
I really don't want to take it apart again....and I did not have it all the way down....still left the button in......
You gripe about an Auto 5....you think a Model 8/81 is hard to put together.....try one of these things......and I came this close to getting a 45 version this past weekend.
It is a sickness I tell you...A sickness.
After ringing some steel in an uneventful 4-5 mags I take the thing in to clean it.
Now I never really "cleaned" it....taking the "lower" trigger group apart and getting all the gook out of there...but figured....you know I bet this has never been done....looks a little nasty in there, I know it is a real b!tch to put it back together....but hay I put together model 8's I can deal with this right?!?!?
So taking it all apart, I notice the place where the front most pin goes through the "trigger group" the plastic there does not look quite correct....there is a little bump there. Take off the specs and sure enough there it is....a crack. WELL *&^#. I am thinking so a little super glue....epoxy...just how do you fix this. Well lets look online see if numrich or whatever they are called now has one and what it goes for....I bet it is buckets of money.
So I get online and start looking....humm I did not know there are two versions of this thing....ok...I got the "new" version....now lets see just how much I am going to be out....$100....$200....I am sure this is insane.
Nope $17.75....oh the horror....If I want a "real" used marlin one get ready to shell out the big bucks $19.75. Man oh man this is just insane.....they want an entire $20 bill....where do they get off..
Boy oh boy those guys that say these plastic things bust all the time....mine only lasted the better part of 40 years....cheap pile of junk....and now to fix it they want a jefferson....well I tell you those guys that bad mouth this plastic thing while making love to their glocks they really have showed me the truth.
Now to be real for a half minute......
Yea it did crack, and yea I am sure I could have put it back into service, but after seeing just how cheap the replacement parts are I just ordered the part.....this was yesterday.
Now I usually don't like leaving a gun apart for several days...I am old and will likely forget how to put it back together....and I don't have a book for this thing...so I guess I would need to find or order a book if I forget....but this time....wow.
I have never been as close to tossing things across the room as I have been with this thing....now off the top of my head.
There are like 6 welded pins on half of the "trigger group".....it looks a little like an over grown model 60....two metal plates with all the gutz inside. One E clip holds everything together.
Keeping everything lined up while you push these 6 pins through....well hell....I think I will make some pins to hold everything in place and let the "real" pins push the temp ones through. I don't usually leave parts out but thoughts of leaving the mag disconnect out really crossed my mind.
Now I know what all those little puzzles we had as kids are for...so you can turn this that way, tilt it this way, and gently tap so this thingy falls into place.
I really don't want to take it apart again....and I did not have it all the way down....still left the button in......
You gripe about an Auto 5....you think a Model 8/81 is hard to put together.....try one of these things......and I came this close to getting a 45 version this past weekend.
It is a sickness I tell you...A sickness.