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Thread: Lost detent ball - help!
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October 5th, 2014, 09:22 PM #1
Lost detent ball - help!
I was removing the firing pin on my M57 Tokarev which requires removing the slide mounted safety. I had the slide in a big zip lock so I wouldn't lose any small parts. The safety came out and the detent spring went in the bag and the detent ball went.....somewhere else. I spent the last hour sweeping the floor with a magnet to no avail.
Any idea where I can get a replacement for that tiny safety detent ball?
Edit - Unless someone has a better idea I might just pick this up
https://www.gunpartscorp.com/ad/283700.htm
III% - Stand and be counted
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October 6th, 2014, 02:57 AM #2
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October 6th, 2014, 12:13 PM #3
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October 22nd, 2014, 08:00 PM #4
Re: Lost detent ball - help!
Saw a complete slide assembly on ebay for $50 and picked it up. It was an M57 slide with a slide mounted safety like mine. It was delivered this week.
The reason I was dissassmbling mine was I was getting light strikes with any ammo except PPU. I was going to clean the firing pin channel and remove a coil from the spring.
Put the new slide on and bingo - no more issues. I have a bunch (400 rounds) of surplus from the 50's that I gave up trying to shoot because it took 3 hammer drops to go off (if it went off at all). With the new slide / firing pin assembly I sent 50 surplus rounds down range w/o an issue. Also shot 50 S&B rounds w/o issue that used to give me one or two light strikes per mag.Last edited by Rblakely; October 22nd, 2014 at 09:01 PM.
III% - Stand and be counted
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October 22nd, 2014, 08:58 PM #5
Re: Lost detent ball - help!
Now you can disassemble the newly-acquired one, measure the ball, and know what's needed to replace in the first one
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October 22nd, 2014, 09:00 PM #6
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October 22nd, 2014, 09:01 PM #7
Re: Lost detent ball - help!
Rules are written in the stone,
Break the rules and you get no bones,
all you get is ridicule, laughter,
and a trip to the house of pain.
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October 22nd, 2014, 09:04 PM #8
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October 22nd, 2014, 09:06 PM #9
Re: Lost detent ball - help!
Rules are written in the stone,
Break the rules and you get no bones,
all you get is ridicule, laughter,
and a trip to the house of pain.
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October 22nd, 2014, 09:09 PM #10
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