Jewell trigger repair

[L.Sherm]

I worked for a guy who had 5 or 6 patents he told me patents were only good for 20 years after that they can be copied.

 

[jelenko]

monopoly on a product

Nah. To hold a monopoly would require you make all triggers.
Otherwise, Ford has a monopoly on Fords.

 

[boltfluter]

Sometime the sear breaks, sometimes the lower lever...sometimes both. The safety equipped models are pretty delicate. I just recently fixed this one.

Seems like that would take quite a blow to break where it did. I wonder if the heat treat is just a little to hard making for a brittle part. I am sure there is a fine line between a good wearing part and too brittle of a part. If I ever break one of mine I would attempt to make a replacement part just to see if it would be feasible. Break out the massive 1/16 inch end mill! Lol. It's a shame all these great triggers are on the sidelines for lack of a few repair parts.
Paul

 

[AlNyhus]

Seems like that would take quite a blow to break where it did. I wonder if the heat treat is just a little to hard making for a brittle part. I am sure there is a fine line between a good wearing part and too brittle of a part. If I ever break one of mine I would attempt to make a replacement part just to see if it would be feasible. Break out the massive 1/16 inch end mill! Lol. It's a shame all these great triggers are on the sidelines for lack of a few repair parts.
Paul

Paul, that was on a 700 with a factory pin hole and pin tip that pierced a primer. When the pin gets pushed back from a pierced primer, everything internally just stacks up. If the over travel is set to the minimum, the top sear connector piece can break. Normally, it's just the lower lever that fails. This one dinged the connector piece, middle lever, lower articulating lever and the spring.

I've never liked coming to a hard stop after the trigger breaks so give all my triggers plenty of over travel, anyway. This is another reason to do that...especially if the pin tip and bolt face haven't been accurized.

Good shootin' -Al

 

[boltfluter]

Paul, that was on a 700 with a factory pin hole and pin tip that pierced a primer. When the pin gets pushed back from a pierced primer, everything internally just stacks up. If the over travel is set to the minimum, the top sear connector piece can break. Normally, it's just the lower lever that fails. This one dinged the connector piece, middle lever, lower articulating lever and the spring.

I've never liked coming to a hard stop after the trigger breaks so give all my triggers plenty of over travel, anyway. This is another reason to do that...especially if the pin tip and bolt face haven't been accurized.

Good shootin' -Al

Thanks for the explanation Al . Lots of banging and clanging going on with that one ! Just sad to see all these fine triggers on the sidelines.
Paul

 

[AlNyhus]

Just sad to see all these fine triggers on the sidelines.
Paul

I have the contact info for the person that supposedly bought the remaining inventory from Jewell. I haven't talked with them to see if that's true or what that might mean. It would be great to have service and triggers available again. I'm just a dirt clod with a few bags of parts that can occasionally get these up and running.

 

[ELR LVR]

Nah. To hold a monopoly would require you make all triggers.
Otherwise, Ford has a monopoly on Fords.

So there should be no problem then making parts for them

 

[SilhouetteShooter]

So there should be no problem then making parts for them

Go and prosper

 

[Thegotoguytx]

Well if anyone does decide to make a few Jewell trigger parts I'm in need. Some 'nice gentleman' sold me a Jewell BR with VR guts in it and didn't tell me. I sent it off to Speedy to get blueprinted and he discovered it. Trigger is unsafe unless I can find a new sear release with the 'L' leg at the bottom and a new main spring.

Please let me know if someone takes that on (or if someone wants to Frankenstein one together I could buy or sell in that arrangement)