52-2 question

[Jeppo]

Gimme a break!!!!!

These photos and the discussion are driving me nuts. I probably have another week or two to wait.

 

[g-dad]

These photos and the discussion are driving me nuts. I probably have another week or two to wait.

Patience grasshopper.

Easy for someone to say that already has their 52-2! LOL

 

[donadler]

donadler, I'm curious. With the magazine removed,What is the stamp on the edge of the magazine well? My stamp was a C or an O.

Mine has the letter Y stamped there. Assemblers mark?

 

[donk52]

Mine has the letter Y stamped there. Assemblers mark?

yeah, I wish I could remember the guys stamps I used to work with, there were seven of us back in the late seventies. I loved making those guns.

 

[Rowlf]

A 3/4-inch 12-point socket is THE tool you should use to very carefully remove your 52 barrel bushing. And for reassembly, finger tight is absolutely tight enough. You do not need a socket wrench or any hand tool — just the socket in your hand. It will safely grab the bushing teeth and it will depress the pin for you also.

When you think 52 barrel bushing, think like the oil filter on a motorcycle. Hand tighten only and the only time you need a wrench or tool to remove it’s because some idiot previous owner put it on gorilla tight, which nobody should ever do.

Just to improve your success rate, I would suggest introducing your new M52 barrel bushing socket to Mr. Belt Sander or similar device to remove any bevel before reaching the wrenching surfaces.

As a mechanic I used to buy Craftsman sockets and wrenches from pawn shops and keep them in my roll-away toolbox so I had a supply of tools I could custom configure for specific tasks.

 

[Sevens]

Sevens, you perked my ears up when you said adjust the lips on a 52 mag.
Pls., do tell how you do that.

Oops, missed this one.

Occasionally a magazine will come to me with the feed lips too tight — it won’t release a round as easily as it should, and this condition can cause a fail to feed when it simply doesn’t need to. It’s most noticeable when you are just trying to load the first round.

I don’t do anything amazing, I simply grab one of my magazines that I know works well and I use my dial caliper and measure the feed lips in 3 or 4 places and then I take a pair of pliers with the jaws wrapped tightly in duct tape and then I carefully bend the feed lips and measure measure measure.

If you have never attempted to bend the feed lips on a 52 magazine, you might be pleasantly surprised at how damn difficult it is and how much strength you have to impart to get them to move a measurable distance.

 

[gmborkovic]

Hello Sevens, thanks for hint. Do you strip the mag down to just the shell?
Do you use needle nose and duck bill pliers?

 

[Sevens]

Nope, haven’t yet taken a 52 magazine apart. And the pliers I use are the large size standard classic. They probably have a proper name, I don’t know what that name is. In lieu of wrapping the jaws carefully in a couple layers of duct tape, I have used layers of cloth, like small piece or strip of cotton t-shirt.

Anything that allows me to grab without gouging the metal.

 

[donadler]

I have a feeling now that even though the trigger is correct, someone has been fiddling around inside. The more I handle it the more concerned I get. The hammer will follow the slide when racked, frequently, the hammer appeared to slip off full cock once while not being touched, and when cocked and the gun held in one position but moved to another the hammer dropped.
Starting to be less a enchanted with it!

 

[Sevens]

That definitely stinks but... these things can be fixed.

 

[donadler]

That definitely stinks but... these things can be fixed.

Yes, they can. I was hoping to actually find some ammo and shoot it, but will have to postpone it until I get it fixed. Meanwhiile, the 39 and 59 might need some range time!!