Emergency Remington 700 trigger pins

[OIF/OEF]

Im sure I may get flamed for this but I found out the hard way that the small bits that come with a dremel tool set the shafts of those bits are almost prefect diameter for trigger pins....cut them down and POW....trigger pins POW POW up late on night shift sleep depravation coming on

 

[ridgeway]

Just order a box of 1/8" diameter by XX" alloy dowel pins. Box of 100 will run around $10.

 

[Preacher]

I have saved and used Dremel tool shafts, and #31 drills that were broken for trigger pins for years...

 

[Rustystud]

Tig welding rods work in a pinch.

Nat Lambeth

 

[STS]

You guys must go through a lot more trigger pins than I do. I've been at this stuff for darn near 50 years and I've never need any trigger pins.

 

[XTR]

Kind of like emergency decapping pins. I forget what size broken drill bit lived in my die for months after I found a Berdan bastard on Thursday night before a match on Saturday.

 

[ebb]

I watched this thread with interest knowing that i would need to make trigger pins because i was building a 700 from a new receiver and an old bolt bushed by GreTan. and a bunch of parts i have accumulated over the years. Now the 64-thousand-dollar question. I am building a stainless rifle and decided I wanted stainless trigger pins, so last time I was getting wire or my MIG welder I got several .125 TIG rods that were stainless. How long is a trigger pin? Does anyone happen to have an original that would measure it and post the length??? Thanks Mark

 

[gunsandgunsmithing]

I typically keep a new trigger in a "timed" hanger, ready to go, with new pins installed, just in case. A sacrificial 1/8th in drill bit works just fine to make them.

 

[KMart]

I watched this thread with interest knowing that i would need to make trigger pins because i was building a 700 from a new receiver and an old bolt bushed by GreTan. and a bunch of parts i have accumulated over the years. Now the 64-thousand-dollar question. I am building a stainless rifle and decided I wanted stainless trigger pins, so last time I was getting wire or my MIG welder I got several .125 TIG rods that were stainless. How long is a trigger pin? Does anyone happen to have an original that would measure it and post the length??? Thanks Mark

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[ebb]

Thank you, Ken new trigger arrived in today's mail i will be cutting pins in the AM.

 

[Brians356]

sleep depravation coming on

Now that's kinky. Sleep deprivation, not so much.
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