This gun is just a range gun to me, not something I'd carry, so I'm not concerned with the safety working, but rather - if it's installed, I just wish it would sit there and behave and not interfere with the functioning of the gun, if that makes any sense.
There’s no reason to remove the safety and leave an ugly hole in the side of an otherwise new gun…
I have a pair of M57’s and my first one works perfect. As nice as the second one is – it had the “safety problem”, as it wouldn’t drop the hammer when pulling the trigger. It works perfect without the safety, so it was easy to identify the problem.
I did some Google-searches and found photos of sears having been ground! There’s NO WAY that I was going to go that! After messing around a bit, I noticed that the FCG (fire control group) didn’t want to drop into the frame and sit nice like my first one does. The problem was too little space between the flat on the safety and the back of the sear.
There’s two “flats” ground onto the rod that comprises the safety – one faces forwards and the other faces upward when the safety is in the gun in the “fire” position. Additional clearance was required between the sear and the
forward facing flat on the safety. I just used a magic-marker to keep the flat from getting cut wrong. For each coat of ink, about 1-thousands was removed (using a jeweler’s file). It took 4-thousands to begin working and another 6-thousands for the FCG to sit at rest in the frame properly.
Since I already have one of these pistols, I wound up taking a total of 12-thousands off of the forward facing safety flat. Both pistols now have triggers that function close to identical.
Now before you (or anyone else) goes to grinding on your gun parts – check to be sure your situation requires the same if you do this. I had the advantage of having a perfectly operational copy – and tried switching a lot of parts around. What I determined (probably) was that the hole for the safety was drilled just a little bit off and that required a little fitting. Fortunately it was a case of having too much metal (which is preferred) instead of there not being enough. All in all, it a very easy fix as trigger work goes and anyone who is careful and takes their time should be able to handle the job.
Here’s a photo of mine..

My guns came looking like new, but the holsters were covered in mold. That cleaned up fine, then I dyed them with Tandy oil-based leather dye and went after them with a tin of Kiwi boot polish. Now I'm a happy boy.
Oh yeah - that small piece of black metal on the ammo box is (was) the "magazine safety". Only the commies would put a magazine safety on a pistol that had no safety to begin with!
