Jewell trigger tune
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Dusty Stevens
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Just lube it. Itll stick real good.
tmwinds
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Hope you mean "slicking" instead of "sticking". If not go with Dusty's suggestion. I've found letting Kroils drip into the trigger and setup for a few days does a excellent job of gumming one up.
Seriously, a good cleaning with cigarette lighter fluid and blow dry with air should be all that is needed along with proper adjustments. I guess you could polish the internal parts and side plates but you could do more harm than good if not careful.
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
I polish side plates on a piece of glass with 1000 grit sandpaper and water. After they get 100% contact i use fine lapping compound straight on the glass
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
No but jb blue will. Id go to the local oriellys and get a tube of fine valve lapping compound for $7 though
butchlambert
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The ultimate would be to Melonite the side plates.
DaveTooley
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I built a fixture to hold triggers. Nothing more than two 1/8" dowel pins in a chunk of steel spaced properly. Steel so I can hold in my vice and nothing is moving and everything is in focus. I put the trigger in the fixture and remove the side plate. Stone it then one piece at a time I remove and stone the sides of the internals. Reassemble, flip it over and remove and stone the other side plate. Reassemble
So, exactly what is the benefit of all the polishing, stoning and lapping? Sounds like a solution in search of a problem. I admit I have never dealt with a factory Jewell, but I have built 3 benchrest versions from scratch for my personal use. I made the internals about .003" narrower than the sideplate spacing. They would adjust down to 1.5 oz. with good repeatability and no tendency to false trip. I made the surfaces smooth on the surface grinder but certainly not polished. Why polish?
RWO
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butchlambert
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DaveTooley
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For much the same reason that you're surface gring the plates...it just smoothes the feel a fair amount. You probably won't gain much if anything by polishing, over your ground finish.
Good work, btw. I've considered trying to design and build my own trigger but just found it much cheaper to buy an already proven trigger. But I also understand the "I did it my by damnself aspect. Lol!
Good work, btw. I've considered trying to design and build my own trigger but just found it much cheaper to buy an already proven trigger. But I also understand the "I did it my by damnself aspect. Lol!
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
The internals drag on the sideplates with not enough clearance AND too much clearance. Can you see this sling shooting or offhand? No. Some disciplines can see it on paper when they drag so it may not be for everybody
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