Lol, I was already thinking that way but the pin for the original lever is not moving at all. Looking at the repaired one that pin is a little larger and comes out easily. I bet that he drilled the pin out and made one a little larger. Thus I would have to drill it out and fabric another slightly larger pin to get it done. Don’t really have the machine tools to do this properly I think?Originally Posted by Garvin
Steve, since the example with the broken lever is otherwise excellent and has a lovely original-looking matt blued finish, it would make sense to swap over the release lever from the second pistol. You would probably be making a mistake not too IMO! Cue the horrified purists...
The spring looks like a modern one to me.
Other issue is I really like that repair for some reason, it just works well and tells a story. I also think that I could get a better price for the pistol with less finish but all orginal, not sure that I want to have to say that its had a broken part repaired?
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