Wow, what an experience. I had dropped this gun off at the smith here in town a time ago and he never got around to doing anything to it.
Well, I managed to shoot a perfect 500/500 in my NC quals with the gun as-is, but was dying for that new trigger just because she's sooo pretty. Last night while watching Buffy, I grabbed my leatherman off my duty belt and took to the shoe with a light touch.
At first, the shoe wouldn't go very far into the channel, but it did scratch up a bit (this is the Infinity 2-piece trigger, black rear). I was able to used the scratches in the black anodize to show what to file off.
As the black finish was completely removed from the top and bottom of the trigger, I went by the very fine scratches in the aluminum itself. This was a very careful operation. Every few passes of the file, I would try the shoe in the channel to see how deep I could push it. When it got stuck, I'd cycle it in and out a half-dozen times and take the file to her again.
Finally, by the end of Buffy, I had a trigger that fit perfectly. There is no up/down play in the trigger, whatsoever. Truly a great job, if I do say so myself.
The only problem I've run in to is that the aluminum finger pad that slips into the shoe, like a jigsaw puzzle, likes to slide back and forth because the set screw doesn't thread through both of the pieces. The hole in the finger pad is so large that the pad can move laterally enough to extend past the shoe and jams against the frame opening. This completely prevents rearward travel of the trigger...and that means no boom.
I think the only option is to slightly bevel the rear corner of the finger pad so it can't catch against the frame. I'll try some blue loctite on the assembly when I set the overtravel screw.
Anyhow, that's my super-cool pistol adventure. I guess I'm now an official Gunsmith.
Well, I managed to shoot a perfect 500/500 in my NC quals with the gun as-is, but was dying for that new trigger just because she's sooo pretty. Last night while watching Buffy, I grabbed my leatherman off my duty belt and took to the shoe with a light touch.
At first, the shoe wouldn't go very far into the channel, but it did scratch up a bit (this is the Infinity 2-piece trigger, black rear). I was able to used the scratches in the black anodize to show what to file off.
As the black finish was completely removed from the top and bottom of the trigger, I went by the very fine scratches in the aluminum itself. This was a very careful operation. Every few passes of the file, I would try the shoe in the channel to see how deep I could push it. When it got stuck, I'd cycle it in and out a half-dozen times and take the file to her again.
Finally, by the end of Buffy, I had a trigger that fit perfectly. There is no up/down play in the trigger, whatsoever. Truly a great job, if I do say so myself.
The only problem I've run in to is that the aluminum finger pad that slips into the shoe, like a jigsaw puzzle, likes to slide back and forth because the set screw doesn't thread through both of the pieces. The hole in the finger pad is so large that the pad can move laterally enough to extend past the shoe and jams against the frame opening. This completely prevents rearward travel of the trigger...and that means no boom.
I think the only option is to slightly bevel the rear corner of the finger pad so it can't catch against the frame. I'll try some blue loctite on the assembly when I set the overtravel screw.
Anyhow, that's my super-cool pistol adventure. I guess I'm now an official Gunsmith.