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There is a smidgen of play that my safety will move rearward past SAFE. If you try to rotate yours a bit past SAFE, does it decock at all? Just wondering. Nope. On mine you go to complete safe position, no over-travel, and then nudge it slightly towards fire. Always been this way, even after the pl...

juniustaylor wrote:Did you put the slide back on the frame or did you just mean to say it was having a little binding in the slide?

Sorry, binding in the slide. Just a little bit.

Certainly your expertise is not a lot of crap. I appreciate it. Unfortunately, no videos load. 1. I worked on the plunger a little more. Not quite down to what you've go, but close. Two two more tries, as I didn't want to go to far. Seemed better but still binding. 2. Put the safety in without the p...

Thanks. I do have a similar appearance, and safety which is difficult to move. I'm forcusing on changing the radius of the plunger, but wondered about the peening issue as well.

If filing of the peened sections was to be done, what is the proper way to do so?

Thanks.

My apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but is the peening and issue? Should the peened areas be smoothed, or something else?

Thanks for the replies.

I'll focus on the plunger.

With the detents, I was just going to smooth the sides down a little, but not make a groove between the two depressions, so the plunger could slide out a little easier, kind of like a ramp.

Mine's a 1974. Looks like it was carried a fair bit, but not shot much as well. I'm going to have another go at smoothing the safety surfaces and creating a channel for the safety detent tonight. Hope it helps. I don't have weak thumbs, but it does need to be a little easier to work back and forth. ...

juniustaylor wrote:look to see if the bottom of the slide isn't peened into the safety.

The prongs are pretty sharp and seem to press fairly hard against the safety part.

I did take it apart last night. The plunger had a pronounced point on it, and the detents seem extreem (diamond shaped, sharp edges, and deep).

Not really gritty. Just hard to get going each direction, but in travel it feels fine. One other thing that may be related: When engaging the safety, to get the hammer to de-cock you kind of have to over-travel and scoot the level back ever so slightly back towards the fire position (really just a l...

juniustaylor wrote:Is it hard to get it out of the safe and fire positions or is is rough all around to get it from one to the other?

Both directions. Hard to de-cock and hard to put back in fire position.

Thanks.

Hello All. Having some trouble with the effort it takes to engage the decocker/safety. I'd like it to be firm, but still be able to work with just a thumb. I can work it that way, but I've really got to muscle that thing around, both to decocker and move back to fire. To make some improvements here,...

The one option to explore is the dimensional similarity to the PA-63 barrel. The PA-63 is a bit longer but stainless (416) PA-63 barrels are available from www.e-gunparts.com for $42.00. I've never had the barrel removed from a P-64 or a PA-63 but the OD measures the same for both. Shortening the s...

Thanks Fellows.

NORMSUTTON wrote:or it could be off the knoch

Thanks Norm. How would I check the "knoch"?

I'm guessing trigger return spring, but am hoping for some actual experience council, since I've not had this one long. Maybe that both of our problems.