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I think I know what happened to Frisbee's P83. I just picked one up and the same thing happened to mine. It quit working in D/A. I discovered that when I removed the grips to clean the weapon, a small spring under the right hand grip became dislodged. The pistol would work in S/A only. I got the D/A...

Norm,

I found that thread while researching my problem. This site and the pictures posted on it have been invaluable to me in helping with questions about my P64.

Joel

I tool the safety out yesterday and everything looked good. I cleaned it again and got it back together. If the weather holds, Tropical Storm Fay is looming, I will take it to the range and try another 50 - 75 rounds through it and see what happens.

Joel

The safety fails to disengage if I use it to drop (de-cock) the hammer. With the hammer cocked, I engage the safety to lower it. When the safety is taken off, red dot exposed, it still acts like the safety is engaged. This happened about every sixth time I used the safety to drop the hammer. I will ...

Norm,

It only acts up about once every six or seven times using the decock lever to drop the hammer. If it was a cracked safety lever would it work occasionally or not at all?

Joel

I purchased a P64 from MCS two weeks ago and have been able to take it to the range twice. The weapon was field stripped, cleaned and lubed before firing. To practice double action firing, I would use the decocker to drop the hammer and then push it back up (safety off). On my first trip to the rang...