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Warning for NIB M1842 buyers!!!
From time to time, I post about the Italian makers making changes every so many years to the point that the pieces/parts of the same maker may or may not be interchangeable with older production versions of the same companies' gun.
Plus, I often harp on the random or missing levels of Quality Control on a Sliding Scale by importer.
Reports of a number of M1842's are now surfacing with a major milling problem involving the sear spring. (I have not seen or handled any new M1842's to be able to have or found images to share yet ... And the problem may be limited to a few, or more in the current production batch.)
Sear springs should have both a "screw hole" for a mounting screw as well as an "alignment tab" that fits into a milled slot in the lockplate to both align the spring and to keep it from shifting or moving.
Numbers of new M1842's are showing up with the slot for the sear spring 'tab' out of alignment, angled, or 'crooked.' Since the tab slot is 'crooked,' the tab does not align properly and pops out of the slot disengaging the sear (which prevents the lock from cocking and being released by the trigger pull).
This can also be a problem, "naturally" if one has the sear spring screw too loose and it does not hold everything down. But this appears to be a misaligned tab slot issue.
Taylor's (importer of Armi Sport) has been called, and even some M1842's taken in in person. They admit the problem but have not responded to the "complainant" yet.
Fixing it oneself is beyond the skill and ability of most lads as it required welding the wrong slot closed, and milling a new one in the proper place or alignment. OR, making a new sear spring with an angled "tab" (but if the new required angle is too great, it may not secure in the slot, maybe..)
So, pards, WARNING to anyone buying a new M1842.
Curt
Warning for NIB M1842 buyers!!!
From time to time, I post about the Italian makers making changes every so many years to the point that the pieces/parts of the same maker may or may not be interchangeable with older production versions of the same companies' gun.
Plus, I often harp on the random or missing levels of Quality Control on a Sliding Scale by importer.
Reports of a number of M1842's are now surfacing with a major milling problem involving the sear spring. (I have not seen or handled any new M1842's to be able to have or found images to share yet ... And the problem may be limited to a few, or more in the current production batch.)
Sear springs should have both a "screw hole" for a mounting screw as well as an "alignment tab" that fits into a milled slot in the lockplate to both align the spring and to keep it from shifting or moving.
Numbers of new M1842's are showing up with the slot for the sear spring 'tab' out of alignment, angled, or 'crooked.' Since the tab slot is 'crooked,' the tab does not align properly and pops out of the slot disengaging the sear (which prevents the lock from cocking and being released by the trigger pull).
This can also be a problem, "naturally" if one has the sear spring screw too loose and it does not hold everything down. But this appears to be a misaligned tab slot issue.
Taylor's (importer of Armi Sport) has been called, and even some M1842's taken in in person. They admit the problem but have not responded to the "complainant" yet.
Fixing it oneself is beyond the skill and ability of most lads as it required welding the wrong slot closed, and milling a new one in the proper place or alignment. OR, making a new sear spring with an angled "tab" (but if the new required angle is too great, it may not secure in the slot, maybe..)
So, pards, WARNING to anyone buying a new M1842.
Curt
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