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Old 05-01-2024, 12:58 AM
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Default double action sear to trigger clearance, punch size update

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Originally Posted by halfmoonclip View Post
"Changed out a Bubba double action sear that was too short and too rounded off".
How much trouble was removing the pivot pin for the double action sear?
Nice fix, Ameridaddy! Take a bow!
Moon
Thanks for the complement
I put the hammer on a block with a relief hole below the sear pin location and knocked it out with a nice straight, flat-ended 1/16" pin punch. I used a 12 oz ball peen hammer choked up so the hammer weight did the work, not a hard swing from an errant arm. The pin came out with two taps very nicely.

The hard part was putting the pin back while trying to keep the new sear's pin hole aligned with the hammer pin hole while the sear spring underneath was making the sear move all over the place, and at the same time start the tiny pin.
I finally assembled the group by using the punch partly through the hammer pin hole and partly in the sear pin hole, held the punch in a vise with the hammer lying flat on top of the vice, then held the pin with needle nose pliers and tapped the pin enough to start it, then removed the punch and drove the sear pin flush with the hammer. I put some masking tape on top of the vise so I didn't mar the hammer case colors.

Once assembled, I measured the let out - it was OK as is, then put the hammer in the gun, checked the double action sear to trigger clearance and stoned the sear face (it needed hardly any) to get the clearance in the Kuhnhausen book, and lightly polished the trigger roundover where the double action sear contacts and glides over the trigger.

STAY AWAY from the single action trigger sear just below the roundover.
Everything I've read said that is sacred and messing with it without a jig is a quick way to a trigger for the scrap barrel.

The book is down in my shop at the moment, but IIRC, the clearance spec was 0.010" - 0.020" with a small chamfer on the point of the double action sear. If you need that number confirmed, wait and I'll look it up and edit this post tomorrow.
0.010"- 0.020" confirmed, start at 0.010" and work up to 0.020" if necessary. pp 50-51 Kuhnhausen S&W Revolvers, 4th edition. The 4th edition has a better explanation and clearer illustration of this area than the 5th edition.

Last edited by ameridaddy; 05-02-2024 at 12:20 AM. Reason: update confirm info
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