JCooperfan1911
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About four years ago I bought one of the Polish P64s when they were a dime a dozen. Nifty, but I took off the grips once and managed to pop out the trigger bar on accident. Well I must have tried to put it back in and failed (it’s very tough to do even on a good day) and the gun ended up disassembled in a locked storage bin where I more or less forgot about it.
Not sure why, but this morning I had an urge to go look for it and decided to try and get the gun back together. I hunted on YouTube for some videos and there weren’t many, the ones there were did not show the installation of the trigger bar probably because it would be a nightmare to assemble it on camera.
The problem is you have to depress a spring arm above the trigger mechanism and snap it over the pin on the front of the trigger bar next to the one that fits inside the trigger itself. The issue is there’s only about 2mm of area to work with as the bar effectively seals the machined hole in the frame where all of this is to take place.
It took about 30-45 minutes of finagling, trying multiple tools, until a dental pick finally (barely) worked. I still think it was mostly luck. Anyway, we”ve got it all back together again after all this time:
Now where did I put that magazine?
-J.C.F.
Not sure why, but this morning I had an urge to go look for it and decided to try and get the gun back together. I hunted on YouTube for some videos and there weren’t many, the ones there were did not show the installation of the trigger bar probably because it would be a nightmare to assemble it on camera.
The problem is you have to depress a spring arm above the trigger mechanism and snap it over the pin on the front of the trigger bar next to the one that fits inside the trigger itself. The issue is there’s only about 2mm of area to work with as the bar effectively seals the machined hole in the frame where all of this is to take place.
It took about 30-45 minutes of finagling, trying multiple tools, until a dental pick finally (barely) worked. I still think it was mostly luck. Anyway, we”ve got it all back together again after all this time:
Now where did I put that magazine?
-J.C.F.