BSA L Pattern

[Chippendale]

Hi Mel----Probably mesuring your mainspring might be a starting point. Not talking specifically about the light, but most older guns are nicer to shoot with a softer mainspring (Talking plinking etc here) as it puts less pressure on the sear. Also many benefit from a little work on the trigger and sear with a stone or a bit of wet and dry paper. If the piston rod looks a bit iffy where it latches, clean and rough bits and scratches off but dont change the angle. The same with the holding face of the sear. On the back of sears, when they engage with triggers, a bit of work with wet and dry here can work well. If you take both bits in your fingers and rub them against each other , you get an idea of how smooth it is. Check that a trigger spring is not bent, battered or closed up------------as is often the case when other bits of trigger ir sear springs have been fitted.

If you cock the gun , open the tap and hold the underlever and pull the trigger and slowly release the underlever, you should get an idea of how good the tap is sealing. If the lever moves slowly it is a good seal.

Other than that a new piston washer might help soften things.

Edbear has put things up about tightening dovetails up----------which if they are not well and truly b-lloxed, usually involves removing the sight and tapping the top of the dovetail in the barrel with a small polished hammer. Sometimes a thin bit of shim steel (or placky milk bottle ) under the sight will raise it enough for the dovetails to grip.

There were different heights of foresights. If you cannot get a taller one, someone on here will probably well a bit on top of your exisiting one.

Sorry we cannot chat on the phone these days.

Cheers for that advice Guy, i'm hopefully getting a new phone with a speaker thingy on it, my hearing has deteriorated so much in the last two years its unbelievable. The Audio nurse at BGHospital says I will eventually go completely deaf.
Keep safe in these trying times Guy.

Cheers

Melv