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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Pics or it didn't happen.

d spring and a Steel hammer will make a big difference

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.

Pic - Tip polished only...

 

Pics or it didn't happen.

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.

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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what did you use exactly? stones or paper?

Paper, then various rouges and finally, toothpaste

 

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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.

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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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

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

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

Yep, ultra fine polish

 

Anyone use Flitz?

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.