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I post this in the hope of deterring anyone else from the same error.
Friday while working on several different gun projects at the same time, a friend dropped by and asked me to look at his flint lock that had a some times "catch" hesitation when the cock dropped.
Thinking it was probably something simple I dropped what I was doing to take a look. I removed the lock out of the stock and examined it closely, finding nothing obvious I began disassembly by cock removal, main spring, stirrup , tumbler bridle, sear and spring.
I noticed the tumber/lock bearing was pretty sloppy and figured that is where the trouble lye. Turned out that the end of the tumbler that goes through the cock needed dressed a bit to allow it to go into the cock more evenly and a bit deeper.
Getting that corrected I reassemble the lock and got the stirrup in up side down.I linked up the mainspring and tried the lock. Feeling a bit of catch just before full cock I heard a small cracking noise and some metal dropped off into my palm. I had just busted off the stirrup finger on the end of the tumbler by getting the stirrup in upside down. I thought it was reversible but upon close examination I saw the the main spring purchase end had larger stirrup lugs.
Called L&R this AM , described the lock, measured the length and found out that it is a Durrs Egg lock.
Cost of the new tumbler was $22.00 plus shipping.
Hope this helps some one else not to make the same error.
The problem with the cock hesitation was that the fly was not operating correctly and hanging up the transition over the half cock notch.
Friday while working on several different gun projects at the same time, a friend dropped by and asked me to look at his flint lock that had a some times "catch" hesitation when the cock dropped.
Thinking it was probably something simple I dropped what I was doing to take a look. I removed the lock out of the stock and examined it closely, finding nothing obvious I began disassembly by cock removal, main spring, stirrup , tumbler bridle, sear and spring.
I noticed the tumber/lock bearing was pretty sloppy and figured that is where the trouble lye. Turned out that the end of the tumbler that goes through the cock needed dressed a bit to allow it to go into the cock more evenly and a bit deeper.
Getting that corrected I reassemble the lock and got the stirrup in up side down.I linked up the mainspring and tried the lock. Feeling a bit of catch just before full cock I heard a small cracking noise and some metal dropped off into my palm. I had just busted off the stirrup finger on the end of the tumbler by getting the stirrup in upside down. I thought it was reversible but upon close examination I saw the the main spring purchase end had larger stirrup lugs.
Called L&R this AM , described the lock, measured the length and found out that it is a Durrs Egg lock.
Cost of the new tumbler was $22.00 plus shipping.
Hope this helps some one else not to make the same error.
The problem with the cock hesitation was that the fly was not operating correctly and hanging up the transition over the half cock notch.
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