Prof Young
New member
So, for those of you who have been following this craziness, I've been through two more mag releases. You'll recall the one poly one? I got it from Precision Small Arms and it was designed for the other kind of spring. There are two kinds of spring that work with this mag release. I assumed PSA would send me the one that worked with the Bauer since that's what I told them I had.) Anyway PSA suggested I could modify the poly with some careful plastic surgery. (Pun intended.) Long story short, it didn't work.
So I got a metal mag release from a place called innovative industries. It came today and on the first installation attempt one of the "ears" that the retaining pin goes through broke off. (See pic attached below.) I've got an e-mail into innovative industry to see what they say.
This is a really hard piece to install. The only way I've figured out how to get it in there is to assemble the latch, mag release bar and spring on a temporary pin (part of a toothpick) get it lined up in the right place with the right hole in the grip and drive the temp pin out with the real deal. Seriously hard to do. They must have had some special tools to build these thing.
If I knew of an FFL gunsmith I could send this two I would. In running condition this gun appears to be worth 4 to 6 hundred. Between original purchase and $$$ for parts I've blown passed the 3 bills line.
Would really like to get his thing rolling again.
Nonetheless . . .
Life is good.
Prof Young
So I got a metal mag release from a place called innovative industries. It came today and on the first installation attempt one of the "ears" that the retaining pin goes through broke off. (See pic attached below.) I've got an e-mail into innovative industry to see what they say.
This is a really hard piece to install. The only way I've figured out how to get it in there is to assemble the latch, mag release bar and spring on a temporary pin (part of a toothpick) get it lined up in the right place with the right hole in the grip and drive the temp pin out with the real deal. Seriously hard to do. They must have had some special tools to build these thing.
If I knew of an FFL gunsmith I could send this two I would. In running condition this gun appears to be worth 4 to 6 hundred. Between original purchase and $$$ for parts I've blown passed the 3 bills line.
Would really like to get his thing rolling again.
Nonetheless . . .
Life is good.
Prof Young