It Gets Worse
Jan. 20th, 2019 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayAfter telling my daughter that, if it was still on despite the snow, I'd go to Maizie's soccer game, I went out and shoveled a fair amount of the white stuff. Then, as a reward for doing something that I really had no choice about doing, I headed back down to the basement workshop, this time with my factory-modded 2300KT.
As I suspected, the trigger pull was not nearly as light and smooth on the 2240 that I'd just worked on. But when I removed the custom stock to get access to the trigger assembly, I discovered something that I should've remembered--that the 2300 actually has an adjustable sear spring as part of the factory upgrade. AND I'd already adjusted it to its lightest tension.
Since the adjuster assembly consisted of a couple of nicely machined brass pieces, I first tried to find a lighter spring the same size as the one in the factory install. But the only one I found, in any of the assortments I have on hand, was the same one I'd used as a replacement in the 2240.
So, just out of curiosity, I cranked the adjuster all the way in, put the old spring back on top of it, and compared the height of this assembly to that of the, ahem, Harbor Freight spring I'd used in the 2240. And, of course, they were about the same since the two guns are built around virtually identical frames.
Then, I went ahead and installed the HF spring and, with the stock still removed, tried the trigger a few times. And liked the result. The gun still cocked the way it's supposed to and the trigger had a much lighter feel to it. So I put the pretty brass adjuster and spring in a spare parts bag and put the stock back on the 2300.
And, as much as it kills me, I owe another shout out to Harbor Freight for their great hardware assortments. Like our friend Patrizia, I feel like I'm walking the streets of a post-industrial crazytown, lol.
LPK
Dreamwidth
1.20.2019
As I suspected, the trigger pull was not nearly as light and smooth on the 2240 that I'd just worked on. But when I removed the custom stock to get access to the trigger assembly, I discovered something that I should've remembered--that the 2300 actually has an adjustable sear spring as part of the factory upgrade. AND I'd already adjusted it to its lightest tension.
Since the adjuster assembly consisted of a couple of nicely machined brass pieces, I first tried to find a lighter spring the same size as the one in the factory install. But the only one I found, in any of the assortments I have on hand, was the same one I'd used as a replacement in the 2240.
So, just out of curiosity, I cranked the adjuster all the way in, put the old spring back on top of it, and compared the height of this assembly to that of the, ahem, Harbor Freight spring I'd used in the 2240. And, of course, they were about the same since the two guns are built around virtually identical frames.
Then, I went ahead and installed the HF spring and, with the stock still removed, tried the trigger a few times. And liked the result. The gun still cocked the way it's supposed to and the trigger had a much lighter feel to it. So I put the pretty brass adjuster and spring in a spare parts bag and put the stock back on the 2300.
And, as much as it kills me, I owe another shout out to Harbor Freight for their great hardware assortments. Like our friend Patrizia, I feel like I'm walking the streets of a post-industrial crazytown, lol.
LPK
Dreamwidth
1.20.2019
