Stubborn ? A bit obstinate, maybe ? You know it's been raining for hours around here, so... First I tried a childish solution, consisting in a drop of epoxy glue on the hammer's edge, hoping this would prevent the hammer from sliding aside the center steel finger. But epoxy glue doesn't stick perfectly on a tiny piece of metal, and its surface is anyway quite slippery. First attempt failed...Then I assumed that, instead of correcting a movable part's alignment -i.e. the hammer, I could try it with the center steel finger (piece n° BK 136 of the HW 40). So I inserted a small piece of those circular seal in a very hard red material, with a square cross-section, used for gas tubing if I'm not wrong, between the left steel finger (BK 137) and the center one (BK136).You know what ? Till now, it works. Well, I don't know if it will last long but at least I can shoot my P17 again.Two remarks : 1) I could never put the tiny ball and spring into the safety housing. If you know a proper way...2) If you're a surgeon, a dentist or a precision whatchmaker, it may help. Yves
Thank you again so much, Ted, for your "4 steps cocking "explanation pictures, and Gary for your illustrated explanations. Without them, although I had read and seen a lot about the P17, I wouldn't have understood exactly how this trigger functions.
Yves, You've found a solution...Congrats! I'm not exactly sure what it was, but heck, if it works...Great! I tried to describe the way I did it in the attached picture. The piece of "gas tube seal" (sorry for my english, may be that doesn't mean a thing, I mean in technical terms) quickly slipped out, so I tried to insert a tiny piece of rubber material, using a small flat screwdriver. Seems to work better. Shot about ten pellets and it didn't move....Guess sears, cams, hammer tolerances are so close, any wear or slightly-off stamped\machining contact surfaces may eventually cause issues. (...) I'm a tinkerer and enjoy fixing my own stuff! That's obvious (I mean the influence of close tolerances on those marvelous toys reliability) but I'm not a tinkerer and it's a tough discipline for me. The only thing I enjoy is succeeding in my poor atempts, and not hurting myself!
Quote from: Theo98 on October 19, 2017, 08:42:03 PMYves, You've found a solution...Congrats! I'm not exactly sure what it was, but heck, if it works...Great! I tried to describe the way I did it in the attached picture. The piece of "gas tube seal" (sorry for my english, may be that doesn't mean a thing, I mean in technical terms) quickly slipped out, so I tried to insert a tiny piece of rubber material, using a small flat screwdriver. Seems to work better. Shot about ten pellets and it didn't move....Guess sears, cams, hammer tolerances are so close, any wear or slightly-off stamped\machining contact surfaces may eventually cause issues. (...) I'm a tinkerer and enjoy fixing my own stuff! That's obvious (I mean the influence of close tolerances on those marvelous toys reliability) but I'm not a tinkerer and it's a tough discipline for me. The only thing I enjoy is succeeding in my poor atempts, and not hurting myself!
Excellent pictures from Ted and excellent discussion... For less than $40 per pistol, heirloom quality can hardly be expected but they can function very well and they are fun to shoot and tinker with.