Alright, I finally give up. I'm doing a trigger job on the 2240 right now. I already polished the trigger/sear, crazy glue the detent ball to the spring and polished a .22 bullet shell to go on the lighter spring I got from Ace.
This has been driving me nuts and a long search found nothing: Which way does the notch in the safety face? Up, down?
*hangs head in shame for this thread.... :-[
I do believe the notch goes towards the trigger.
The red part goes on the left. You will know if it's right because otherwise it won't fire I think. This always happens to me too tater ;D ;D I think it goes down though.
Thanks guys. I knew the red was left but that notch through me off. I've never took it completely out.
The steel ball is on the lower side of the spring them correct? To catch in the grooves?
Quote from: Tater on April 07, 2013, 11:12:05 PM
Thanks guys. I knew the red was left but that notch through me off. I've never took it completely out.
The steel ball is on the lower side of the spring them correct? To catch in the grooves?
Yes balls on the bottom :D ;D
Thanks.
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Did you get it?
How did your trigger job turn out... like it?
I believe the notch on the safety pin faces downward. It's mean to engage the trigger below. Someone please correct me if mistaken.
Yes it's down.
The trigger job almost came out too good. It is REALLY light. I'll have to test it though and let my wife try it too. Cleaned the barrel too and it was really dirty, got to season it now with lead. I have a slightly thicker spring if needed for the sear.
If you get the safety bar in with the red to the left, the only way the trigger will pull far enough to engage the sear is when the notch faces the the trigger, down, And the safety is OFF.
Do the bang test to make sure it's not too light.
Quote from: Fronzdan on April 08, 2013, 05:27:22 PM
Do the bang test to make sure it's not too light.
It did pass the bang test but man is it light. Hopefully I get time to shoot it tonight.
Don't feel bad dude, the only reason I didn't come on here asking the same kind of questions when I did my 1322 trigger polish is because I have my 1377 setting there to look at! ;)
If you don't need or use the safety then you don't have to worry about such things. :D
Carl
Jerry - do you happen to have a part number or something for that spring you just bought? I have the trigger pretty light in my 1377, but would like to get it a tad lighter. I keep cutting a half coil off, but am about out of spring to do that again, and I don't want to go to stretching it to keep working on it.
If not, no sweat... I can figured this out... but I thought I would ask and give the one you used a try. ;) :-*
Quote from: Brent on April 09, 2013, 05:22:06 AM
Jerry - do you happen to have a part number or something for that spring you just bought? I have the trigger pretty light in my 1377, but would like to get it a tad lighter. I keep cutting a half coil off, but am about out of spring to do that again, and I don't want to go to stretching it to keep working on it.
If not, no sweat... I can figured this out... but I thought I would ask and give the one you used a try. ;) :-*
Shoot, I don't have the part number. I got it at Ace and they were sorted in bins but I didn't write the number down. If your near an Ace, I just brought the stock spring with me to the store and used it to compare. It was pretty easy to find the same size but with much thinner coils.
I actually have an extra of slightly thicker coils but still thinner then the stock spring. I'm not sure which I will use yet in my 2240 (ultra thin spring is in now but haven't shot it yet) but I could send you whichever I don't use.
Quote from: Tater on April 09, 2013, 05:33:55 AM
Shoot, I don't have the part number. I got it at Ace and they were sorted in bins but I didn't write the number down. If your near an Ace, I just brought the stock spring with me to the store and used it to compare. It was pretty easy to find the same size but with much thinner coils.
I actually have an extra of slightly thicker coils but still thinner then the stock spring. I'm not sure which I will use yet in my 2240 (ultra thin spring is in now but haven't shot it yet) but I could send you whichever I don't use.
Thanks Jerry!! That is Really cool of you to offer!! :-*
I should be able to do the same thing. We don't have an Ace in town, but we do have a decent hardware store. When I went in they had one pretty close, but a bit wider. I will hit an Ace next time I am out of town near one, and see if I can do the same thing you did.
After you shoot it, let me know if you like the lightest one, or recommend the next one up.
Thanks Again!!!
Brent
I've had good luck just taking the stock spring out, with the action uncocked, compressing it in pliers or my fingers until it has about 1/16-1/8" of preload instead of 1/4" plus then reassembling, it works surprisingly well and is free (close enough even if you count your time, it's about 10 minutes, I did one in the woods using my bumper as a work bench...)
On my 1322 I ended up putting the stock spring back in after compressing it. I also used my dermal to
cut a notch to seat the spring, it took the bend out of the spring.
I think it works better. ???
I agree ACE is the place!
Harbor Freight also sells a box of assorted springs, don't know that anything in the box would be close.
But you can catch it on sale for next to nothing.