Polished the internals on my 92fs

[millsan1 3]

And the only thing accomplished is shiny internals.

 

I just spent 3 hours polishing the internals on my 92 in an effort to get a better double action. Used several progressively finer grits is abrasive, ending with polish.

 

All the right surfaces are shiny. I even polished some of the pins. The action is smoother, but no appreciable improvement in the pull and release.

 

I have the D spring. Ordered a bunch of stuff today, Wolff springs, and the like.

 

Let's see where we end up.

 

The goal is a nice soft and smooth DA first shot.

 

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[johnp 45]

Pics or it didn't happen.

[powerrockbill 0]

d spring and a Steel hammer will make a big difference

[Dan 177]

Good idea Anthony. I remember we were discussing the first DA shot at OB this past weekend. I may look into what I can do , if anything for the 226. Especially since I'm a DA/SA newb when it comes to gun games.

[bhunted 887]

Pic - Tip polished only...

 

Pics or it didn't happen.

[twong11219 0]

I did the polish on mine too. Worth the effort. Action is definitely smoother. Even though it wasn't bad to begin with, but now it's more refined. The D spring made a big difference too for me. Did you also smooth out the sear and hammer engagement area? Gives a bit of cleaner break. I haven't looked into replacing the trigger as I've heard that improves the action as well.

[millsan1 3]

It is smoother, no doubt, but not the night and day difference I had read about. Might be because I have 6-7000 rounds through her already. Have to play with a new 92 to feel the difference.

 

Yes, did all surfaces, sear, hammer, trigger bar, etc.

 

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[alec.mc 180]

what did you use exactly? stones or paper?

[millsan1 3]

Paper, then various rouges and finally, toothpaste

 

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[twong11219 0]

Wow. Toothpaste. That's a first. I used sandpaper which goes all the way up to 8000grit then follow up with red rouge, then mag polish. With 6-7,000 rounds, likely a lot of the contact points have already weared to a smooth finish.

 

The only next stage I heard was replacing the trigger. Haven't thought of cutting off some coils from the hammer spring, but I rather have reliable strikes on the primer. The D spring lightened up my DA pull quite a bit so I was happy. I know one guy when I was at a match having tons of issues with WWB and the D spring. I run CCIs and Aguilas. Not one failure.

 

Last thing you can do is send it off to a reputable 92 specialist to fine tune it. Not sure what magic they do.

[bhunted 887]

Toothpaste has been a minor fix for many things... Old school. Remove minor scratches, polishing, etc... Some more than others have a bit of fine grit...

 

 

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[millsan1 3]

Toothpaste has been a minor fix for many things... Old school. Remove minor scratches, polishing, etc... Some more than others have a bit of fine grit...

 

 

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Yep, ultra fine polish

[twong11219 0]

I think I need to start stropping my knives with toothpaste then.

[Johnk-NJ 4]

Does someone make internals that are much better then the factory ones.

[Black Ops 1]

Yep, ultra fine polish

 

Anyone use Flitz?

[GRIZ 3,369]

The goal is a nice soft and smooth DA first shot.

 

The fact is the mechanism used by most DA semi-autos (designed by Walther in 1921) does not lend itself to smoothing too much. Yes you can smooth it to a degree but you will never achieve the smoothness of a quality action job on a S&W revolver.

 

Using toothpaste? I heard of that 40 years ago and the only result I know of is it made the gun parts sticky.