[cemoto]

I was installing my new Timney Trigger in my 581 this afternoon. All seemed to be going fine till I discovered the tang that the retaining pin for the trigger goes through was inside the trigger body. Not sure what I did wrong, I supported the trigger before drifting out the pin and did not apply any twisting motion but there it was. It looks like the tang was soldered to the reciever although there was about one third of the contact area rusty which leads me to believe it may not have been a thorough solder job.

Regardless, has anyone else had this happen and if so how did you resolve it?

Cemoto

 

[cemoto]

Broke 581

cowboy4, Thanks for the quick reply. This repair seems much more complicated than I expected. In hind sight I should have sent it to Timney. Live and learn.

 

[cemoto]

I have visited a couple smiths in the area and they don't have the time. I get the feeling they don't think it is worth fixing. I am considering epoxy. I know it is a hack way to fix it and it may not hold but that may be my only option unless I can find a smith that wants to take the time to repair it.

 

[cemoto]

I did some more checking on the net and found this is a problem on the 788 also. It appears that experienced gunsmiths have had the stud break off. One guy had a broken stud after having trigger work done by a smith. He found out the stud was broken after removing the action from the stock to try and figure out why the rifle would go off when he engaged the safety. I think the epoxy is out of the question, I don't want to take any chances. I'm still not sure what I will do.
Maybe buy a CZ?