So I finally got around to slapping together my White Oak upper and scope onto one of the PSA lowers I recently picked up (thanks again, MDS member rfawcs!) and it was with no mean amount of glee which I pulled the “G” High Speed Natl Match (HS NM) trigger assembly off the pegboard rack above my bench. I mean, it’s only been hanging there since this past March …
Everything is going smoothly that is until … wait a minute …. Unfortunately, the pins that came with the assembly are intentionally oversized and measure .156.
The trigger and hammer pin bores in my receiver measure .154 and the pins that were in the milspec PSA assembly I pulled out of the lower measure .1545 - nevertheless, they go in and out snug but, with little actual force required. Hammer and punch taps yes but, no “pounding” blows.
At the point I was beating on the .156 steel pins with way, way too much force and they still were not going to go into the .154 hole in the aluminum I stopped and called “G”
The guy that answered the phone confirmed the pins they include with their High Speed Natl Match assemblies are even more oversized than the oversized pins they include with their other target, match and DMR assemblies … he said he’d gladly go through a mess of pins in front of him and find two that are .155 and send them to me.
But an hour later, I get an email from another employee, equally pleasant and no doubt way more experienced than I, who actually suggests I use whatever force necessary to drive the .156 steel pins through the .154 holes - in an aluminum receiver …
At this point I’m crossing my fingers the first employee actually follows through on his promise and sends me some pins under .156 diameter
I mean, I think (hope) each of us has at some point in the past realized, “Even though ‘as snug as physically possible’ will benefit whatever it is I’m assembling, I am at a point right now where one of the two parts I am trying to smash together is going to be destroyed!”
Q - have any of you ever encountered “pin to receiver bore” conflicts that caused you to take a “timeout” and find other pins?
Just curious if any one has an alternative I may be missing….
Everything is going smoothly that is until … wait a minute …. Unfortunately, the pins that came with the assembly are intentionally oversized and measure .156.
The trigger and hammer pin bores in my receiver measure .154 and the pins that were in the milspec PSA assembly I pulled out of the lower measure .1545 - nevertheless, they go in and out snug but, with little actual force required. Hammer and punch taps yes but, no “pounding” blows.
At the point I was beating on the .156 steel pins with way, way too much force and they still were not going to go into the .154 hole in the aluminum I stopped and called “G”
The guy that answered the phone confirmed the pins they include with their High Speed Natl Match assemblies are even more oversized than the oversized pins they include with their other target, match and DMR assemblies … he said he’d gladly go through a mess of pins in front of him and find two that are .155 and send them to me.
But an hour later, I get an email from another employee, equally pleasant and no doubt way more experienced than I, who actually suggests I use whatever force necessary to drive the .156 steel pins through the .154 holes - in an aluminum receiver …
At this point I’m crossing my fingers the first employee actually follows through on his promise and sends me some pins under .156 diameter
I mean, I think (hope) each of us has at some point in the past realized, “Even though ‘as snug as physically possible’ will benefit whatever it is I’m assembling, I am at a point right now where one of the two parts I am trying to smash together is going to be destroyed!”
Q - have any of you ever encountered “pin to receiver bore” conflicts that caused you to take a “timeout” and find other pins?
Just curious if any one has an alternative I may be missing….