MachIVshooter
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Hey guys
So, a friend of mine bought one of these against my advice, and now it's in my possession for the repairs it needs. His first trip to the range, the DA quit functioning. I disassembled the pistol and found the tiny pawl on the hammer where the equally small reciprocating pawl on the trigger bar engages was ripped off. I also inspected the sear, only to find it was horribly chipped. I had him order a new hammer and sear, got them installed, and found that some small dimensional variations in the new hammer were not allowing the DA pawl on the trigger bar to engage. After much time and many disassemble, file & fit, reassemble processes, I got the DA to work just fine. Well, I'm testing the thing for function, and the hammer starts following. I figure I must've removed too much metal somewhere, so I break it down again. Low and behold, the NEW hammer has chipped away to almost nothing at the primary sear engagement point, in the same fashion that the old sear did. Is the metallurgy in these things really that poor??? I mean, we're talking maybe 80-100 firings and this damage occured. The hammer and sear both appear to be MIM, perhaps invesment cast. I attacked the old one with a file, and it was very hard, but evidently quite brittle. There are obvious casting/molding flaws as well.
I tried to take pics, but they didn't turn out. I'm just wondering if anyone else has fought with one of these before. It is my opinion at this point that the TPH is a very expensive POS mouse gun. The overall construction of the gun is much lower quality than I'd expect of such an expensive little pistol. My hundred dollar Phoenix HP-22 has fewer signs of wear after I don't know how many thousands of rounds.
I don't really know what to tell this guy. For some reason he is just in love with these things and wants to use it as a CCW. I steered him toward countless quality mouseguns, but he was just dead set on this TPH .22, dropped 5 bills on the gun, another $80 on these parts, and this is where we're at.
So, a friend of mine bought one of these against my advice, and now it's in my possession for the repairs it needs. His first trip to the range, the DA quit functioning. I disassembled the pistol and found the tiny pawl on the hammer where the equally small reciprocating pawl on the trigger bar engages was ripped off. I also inspected the sear, only to find it was horribly chipped. I had him order a new hammer and sear, got them installed, and found that some small dimensional variations in the new hammer were not allowing the DA pawl on the trigger bar to engage. After much time and many disassemble, file & fit, reassemble processes, I got the DA to work just fine. Well, I'm testing the thing for function, and the hammer starts following. I figure I must've removed too much metal somewhere, so I break it down again. Low and behold, the NEW hammer has chipped away to almost nothing at the primary sear engagement point, in the same fashion that the old sear did. Is the metallurgy in these things really that poor??? I mean, we're talking maybe 80-100 firings and this damage occured. The hammer and sear both appear to be MIM, perhaps invesment cast. I attacked the old one with a file, and it was very hard, but evidently quite brittle. There are obvious casting/molding flaws as well.
I tried to take pics, but they didn't turn out. I'm just wondering if anyone else has fought with one of these before. It is my opinion at this point that the TPH is a very expensive POS mouse gun. The overall construction of the gun is much lower quality than I'd expect of such an expensive little pistol. My hundred dollar Phoenix HP-22 has fewer signs of wear after I don't know how many thousands of rounds.
I don't really know what to tell this guy. For some reason he is just in love with these things and wants to use it as a CCW. I steered him toward countless quality mouseguns, but he was just dead set on this TPH .22, dropped 5 bills on the gun, another $80 on these parts, and this is where we're at.
