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Offline tmccray45

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A Trigger Job Video
« on: June 08, 2013, 03:22:08 PM »
In these days of YouTube videos, I got to wondering if there was a online video of someone doing a trigger job on a Handi?   I've always wanted to do a trigger on one of my Handis, and have read the various descriptions on how it's done.   I'm sure that the descriptions are complete, but my career path has not lent itself to mechanical fields.   Besides, I've always been a visual person.

If there's not an online video, would someone on Graybeard step forward and make one?   Perhaps it could be posted on this site, or that's not possible, perhaps a link could be posted to the FAQ section.  I really think there are a number of people out there like me - people that can more easily learn something if they can see it done.
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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2013, 05:47:09 AM »
Quote from: tmccray45 on June 08, 2013, 03:22:08 PM
In these days of YouTube videos, I got to wondering if there was a online video of someone doing a trigger job on a Handi?   I've always wanted to do a trigger on one of my Handis, and have read the various descriptions on how it's done.   I'm sure that the descriptions are complete, but my career path has not lent itself to mechanical fields.   Besides, I've always been a visual person.

If there's not an online video, would someone on Graybeard step forward and make one?   Perhaps it could be posted on this site, or that's not possible, perhaps a link could be posted to the FAQ section.  I really think there are a number of people out there like me - people that can more easily learn something if they can see it done.

From your description of your lack of mechanical ability, you should NOT attempt to even start. Getting it apart to start the trigger job is  best done by somebody that has done it before. Springs under tension will take off to parts unknown. THEN getting it back together is the next giant hurdle. It will most likely be a basket case for some poor gunsmith to reassemble.

I won't cut the throat of any gunsmiths on here to tell you how to do it.
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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2013, 05:49:35 AM »
Best to download Perklo's instructions, better than a video IMO, hundreds of members here have done their first trigger jobs, it's not as hard as you'd think, I've done dozens of em, the first one was the hardest tho, took a couple hours, ˝hr now.  ;D

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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2013, 06:07:54 AM »
Maybe someone could talk Harry Potterfield into doing a video.  ;D

I know how it would end. He would say, "and that's how it's done." "I'm Larry Potterfield from MidwayUSA, thanks for watchin." ;D ;D

Thanks, Dinny
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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2013, 04:07:49 PM »
Quote from: -Dinny on June 09, 2013, 06:07:54 AM
Maybe someone could talk Harry Potterfield into doing a video.  ;D

I know how it would end. He would say, "and that's how it's done." "I'm Larry Potterfield from MidwayUSA, thanks for watchin." ;D ;D

Thanks, Dinny



No, no, no, it's  "and that's the way it is."
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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2013, 05:00:23 PM »
Quote from: craigster on June 09, 2013, 04:07:49 PM
Quote from: -Dinny on June 09, 2013, 06:07:54 AM
Maybe someone could talk Harry Potterfield into doing a video.  ;D

I know how it would end. He would say, "and that's how it's done." "I'm Larry Potterfield from MidwayUSA, thanks for watchin." ;D ;D

Thanks, Dinny



No, no, no, it's  "and that's the way it is."
Only if Walter Cronkite made that video. ;)
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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2013, 11:42:31 AM »
I thought it was... "And that's the way the cookie crumbles!"
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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2013, 02:27:12 PM »
Or as Adrian Cronauer said  to Roosevelt E. Roosevelt in Good Morning Vietnam, "what it is, what shall be, what it was."
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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2013, 03:18:42 PM »
I guess I should explain my original request . . .

While I haven't made my living workin' a metal lathe, I'm not a dolt around tools.   It took me about 40-45 minutes to put together my AR-15 lower - no mistakes, worked the first time.

I was just thinking that there are people on this forum that might have done several trigger jobs and could put together a video that would explain their findings and shortcuts.   Kinda a service for the (great) Graybeard community.   This would be an adjunct to the existing text in the FAQ section.
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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2013, 03:36:50 PM »
I have one that needs to be lightened.  Let me see what I can do next week after this field exercise.

Thanks, Dinny
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Re: A Trigger Job Video
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2013, 10:17:52 AM »
Quote from: -Dinny on June 10, 2013, 03:36:50 PM
I have one that needs to be lightened.  Let me see what I can do next week after this field exercise.

Thanks, Dinny

Thanks, my man.   I knew I could count on a fellow vet.
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