Walther PPK/S safety binds

[MSgtUSAF]

Walther stainless .380 PPK/S - purchased used.
Hammer cocked; When safety/decocker lever is rotated DOWN to decock the hammer it stops about 1/2 way down and WILL NOT rotate. BUT - if the hammer is thumbed all the way back, then the safety/decocker rotates and every thing worlks.
I disassembled the slide removing the extractor, firing pin and slid out the saftety.
Put the safety back in - same thing.
I turned my attention to the lower parts and when compared to another PPK the lever can easily be depressed with the hammer normally cocked.
Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Is this by chance the Smith & Wesson *Walther* PPK/s?

Todd.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

If I had to guess, the loaded chamber indicator or its spring are broken and causing the safety to bind. Try removiing them, reassemble and see if that fixes it. The pistol is perfectly safe to use without the indicator- this is an accepted mod in the Walther world. BTw, its recommended to minimize the usage of the decocker on PP and P38 type pistols as they are known to break hammers and safeties thanks to battering of these parts by decocking.

 

[MSgtUSAF]

Is this by chance the Smith & Wesson *Walther* PPK/s?

Todd.

Interarms, Alexandria VA

 

[MSgtUSAF]

If I had to guess, the loaded chamber indicator or its spring are broken and causing the safety to bind. Try removiing them, reassemble and see if that fixes it. The pistol is perfectly safe to use without the indicator- this is an accepted mod in the Walther world. BTw, its recommended to minimize the usage of the decocker on PP and P38 type pistols as they are known to break hammers and safeties thanks to battering of these parts by decocking.

All parts removed from the slid: firing pin, extractor, loaded chamber indicator. Put the safety drum/lever back in no parts, still binds. The hammer release the sticks up left side of lower wont go down and is what is preventing the safety drum from rotating. if the hammer is thumbed back this is free to move and drop the hammer.

 

[Monac]

I used to have an East German Walther PP. Postwar magazines of some kinds (I do not remember which) would keep the safety from rotating far enough to drop the hammer. This is probably perfectly irrelevant to MSgtUSAF's problem, but trying to use the safety without a magazine in the gun would be easy to do and cost nothing. Good luck with the problem, in any event.

 

[HisSoldier]

"Is this by chance the Smith & Wesson *Walther* PPK/s?"
"Interarms, Alexandria VA"

Love it! As an owner of both brands I've never been able to "see" all that's supposedly wrong with S&W PPK type guns, although I believe small parts in the Interarms are cast while those in the S&W are MIM. It's possible that features of the S&W were specified by Walther because in spite of all the whining the newest ones retain at least some of those features.