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Can anyone help?
Got a new-to-me Contender frame today. It's one of the "armor alloy" frames.
It has a selector in the hammer, with the selector switch on top of the hammer (left is centerfire, center is safe, right is rimfire).
When dryfiring it in the safe position, one of the two short fixed pins in the face of the hammer (the left / centerfire one which hits the bottom firing pin), just came out and flew across the room. Luckily I was able to find it.
For better or worse, I superglued it back in and "hammered it home" as deeply as it would go before the superglue set.
But, it extends out now further than the rimfire one does, and presumably farther than it's supposed to, by approx. .08" (80/1000ths). **
However, just looking at it and dryfiring it some more, it appears as though it will still work fine, if not ideal. It shortens the hammer travel distance by the same amount (.08"), with the hammer down. Assuming it still has enough power (momentum) to ignite the primer and fire, do you see any reason to worry about it?
Thanks very much.
**Or, however, perhaps the centerfire one is *supposed* to stick out further than the rimfire one.... ??
Got a new-to-me Contender frame today. It's one of the "armor alloy" frames.
It has a selector in the hammer, with the selector switch on top of the hammer (left is centerfire, center is safe, right is rimfire).
When dryfiring it in the safe position, one of the two short fixed pins in the face of the hammer (the left / centerfire one which hits the bottom firing pin), just came out and flew across the room. Luckily I was able to find it.
For better or worse, I superglued it back in and "hammered it home" as deeply as it would go before the superglue set.
But, it extends out now further than the rimfire one does, and presumably farther than it's supposed to, by approx. .08" (80/1000ths). **
However, just looking at it and dryfiring it some more, it appears as though it will still work fine, if not ideal. It shortens the hammer travel distance by the same amount (.08"), with the hammer down. Assuming it still has enough power (momentum) to ignite the primer and fire, do you see any reason to worry about it?
Thanks very much.
**Or, however, perhaps the centerfire one is *supposed* to stick out further than the rimfire one.... ??