No auto safety. Luxury!

[Iain K D]

As mentioned above, the differing designs of the internal actuating lever on the HW40 and Beeman P17 (or at least, my P17).

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...man10-Copy.jpg

HW40 (on the left) uses a thin steel plate, with a fancy wire spring sitting around it.

P17 has a thicker alloy casting with a coil spring set in it.

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...man11-Copy.jpg

How the P17 lever works, fitting it outside the gun. As soon as the gun is opened, and the compression cylinder rises, the lever is able to rock back - forced by the spring, that is - and the right hand tip of it pushes the safety 'on'.

Bear in mind, of course, that the external button/slider of the safety catch extends further forward than it does inside the gun.

Iain

[peteswright]

As mentioned above, the differing designs of the internal actuating lever on the HW40 and Beeman P17 (or at least, my P17).

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...man10-Copy.jpg

HW40 (on the left) uses a thin steel plate, with a fancy wire spring sitting around it.

P17 has a thicker alloy casting with a coil spring set in it.

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...man11-Copy.jpg

How the P17 lever works, fitting it outside the gun. As soon as the gun is opened, and the compression cylinder rises, the lever is able to rock back - forced by the spring, that is - and the right hand tip of it pushes the safety 'on'.

Bear in mind, of course, that the external button/slider of the safety catch extends further forward than it does inside the gun.

Iain

I didn't know the internals were different but my two p17's and HW40 are working fine with the on off switch removed. Thanks for the info though. ATB. Pete.

[Aimstraight]

I have now removed the auto safety cam from my HW40, so now I have a fully working manual safety

http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...pscvjgzvmw.jpg

This was mentioned and shown in photos by Iain K D.

It took literally a couple of minutes (and will be easy to re-install as required):

- With pistol not cocked, safety ON.
- Knock pin out of forward part of trigger guard (this was not a particularly tight fit)
- Lift up top cover (not fully), place something under the cylinder to hold it up a little
- Remove the cam and spring (spring usually held in place with blob of grease), small bent nose pliers useful for this
- Close top cover
- Insert pin back in.

Manual Safety...as most other SSPs are!