I recently got out a Canjar single set trigger I’ve had for decades, installed it, and found that it functions correctly unset, but it canl no longerbe set. Push the shoe forward and the center blade comes forward as it should, but there is only feeble ‘click’ sound and it does not latch. The trigger has had very little use, despite its age, and always used to work perfectly well, so nothing should be worn out.
I tried soaking and flushing it with lighter fluid, but this made no difference. It did look a bit dirty around where the shoe connects with the main trigger lever, so I removed the pin, detached the shoe, and gave all the surfaces I could reach a thorough clean. I did not remove the small ‘sear’ in the top of the shoe as I do not have a punch small enough, but it looked clean and moved freely under the pressure of the tiny coil spring acting on it. Once the parts were clean, I reassembled the mechanism, and found that it still does not set, and it does not make any sort of click sound now.
Has anybody else had this problem and knows how to fix it? Or can anybody direct me to some place where there is a diagram of the inner workings of the set shoe? I could probably figure things out myself if I could find such a diagram. I have searched and ‘Googled’ until I have nearly gone cross-eyed, and found numerous articles on how to ADJUST the trigger unit, but nothing relevant to my problem. Nor any diagrams of the ‘innards’ of the set shoe.
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I tried soaking and flushing it with lighter fluid, but this made no difference. It did look a bit dirty around where the shoe connects with the main trigger lever, so I removed the pin, detached the shoe, and gave all the surfaces I could reach a thorough clean. I did not remove the small ‘sear’ in the top of the shoe as I do not have a punch small enough, but it looked clean and moved freely under the pressure of the tiny coil spring acting on it. Once the parts were clean, I reassembled the mechanism, and found that it still does not set, and it does not make any sort of click sound now.
Has anybody else had this problem and knows how to fix it? Or can anybody direct me to some place where there is a diagram of the inner workings of the set shoe? I could probably figure things out myself if I could find such a diagram. I have searched and ‘Googled’ until I have nearly gone cross-eyed, and found numerous articles on how to ADJUST the trigger unit, but nothing relevant to my problem. Nor any diagrams of the ‘innards’ of the set shoe.
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