Elliottsdad
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My Beretta APX isn't my favorite pistol ever, but it is comfortable and reliable. I wanted to buy a grey grip frame for it, but before that I wanted to try my hand at removing the serialized chassis. Boy was that a mistake.
It came out easily enough, though not nearly as easy as the Sig P320. My problem occurred when reinstalling the chassis into its frame. I lined it up, pressed down and felt a "squish." I pulled it out to see what happened, and sure enough, the cocking lever spring had fallen under the chassis during reinsertion, and was smashed against the interior of the frame.
After much cursing, I used needle nose pliers and tried my best to bend it back into its original hook shape before hooking it back over the rear frame pin.
Ever since this happened, the pistol functions, but the trigger pull feels very strange. It was never A+ to begin with, but now its super squishy.
What steps would you take with this? I've heard Beretta isn't amazing to deal with as far as these things go. How much would a decent gunsmith charge for taking a look at this and/or reshaping/replacing the spring? This pistol is getting really cheap for street price, and I don't want to sink $100 or anything into this spring issue.
Thanks!
It came out easily enough, though not nearly as easy as the Sig P320. My problem occurred when reinstalling the chassis into its frame. I lined it up, pressed down and felt a "squish." I pulled it out to see what happened, and sure enough, the cocking lever spring had fallen under the chassis during reinsertion, and was smashed against the interior of the frame.
After much cursing, I used needle nose pliers and tried my best to bend it back into its original hook shape before hooking it back over the rear frame pin.
Ever since this happened, the pistol functions, but the trigger pull feels very strange. It was never A+ to begin with, but now its super squishy.
What steps would you take with this? I've heard Beretta isn't amazing to deal with as far as these things go. How much would a decent gunsmith charge for taking a look at this and/or reshaping/replacing the spring? This pistol is getting really cheap for street price, and I don't want to sink $100 or anything into this spring issue.
Thanks!