12-04-2014, 02:27 AM
(12-03-2014, 01:45 PM)alanganes Wrote: Late breaking edit: You got my curiosity up, so I went out to have a look. I put the trigger/sear assembly in the receiver with all of the safety components out of the gun and found that the sear does, in fact double as the bolt stop.
Here are a few pics. Sorry for the marginal photos, was using my phone camera:
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Would these typically be hardened or case hardened? Any idea?
Looks simple enough in form, but you can see where the once sharp edge has been chipped or just mashed over. A replacement is only around 15 buck, so I'm not sure it is even worth trying to effect any sort of repair on the existing part, unless one just wanted to do it just to say you did.
Some of what I read suggests that this is an "improved" replacement part, but I'm not 100% sure that is true:
New Sear
Ahhhh, you are right Al. The front "hooked" portion of the sear is indeed the bolt stop. That is why pictures are good for nailing down details. I didn't have the toggled trigger/sear link arrangement in my head. I agree with David. For $15 you can't loose on a new sear. As far as I know both the sear and firing pin surfaces are case hardened. What is the condition of the underside of the bolt, where the hook hits it? I'm guessing you may have to clean that up a bit as well judging from the looks of that sear?
By the way - your phone pictures are pretty good IMO, compared to a lot of others I've seen.
Willie