Firing Pin Retaining Pin

[Grapeshot]

I don't know about you guys & gals, but a broken/chipped firing pin is a sourse of frustration.  My 5.5 inch 1875 Remingto had a chipped firing pin that would pierce primers.  I got a hold of VTI and they sent me a replacement firing pin and a retaining pin for it as the original retaining pin was bent all to heck.

The firing pin was a no brainer and fit perfect, but the retainig pin was to small in diameter.  After calling VTI back, they sent me another and I sent the first one back to them.  However, that second was a smaller diameter as well.

I was a small arms repairman while an enlisted man and I wasn't going to let this set me back.  I grabbed a finnishing nail and chucked it in a drill and turned it down with a swiss file until it was a tight fit in that cross through hole in the hammer.

Once I had it at the propper diameter, I cut it to length with a dremmel tool cutting wheel and afixed the firing pin with my home made retaining pin.

Hope this fix helps out someone else.

[sundance44`s]

Grapeshot ..i have had much of the same experence from ordering parts from VTI and DIXIEGUNWORKS .. if you aren`t a gun smith when ya get `em ya will be when ya get them to fit !  lucky the small parts aren`t expencive , the shipping is uasually higher than the part , i think i`ll start ordering spares when i need one .

[Marshal Will Wingam]

lucky the small parts aren`t expencive , the shipping is uasually higher than the part , i think i`ll start ordering spares when i need one .

I agree on ordering spares. I needed a hand spring so I ordered 3. Still have two as backups.

[sundance44`s]

Marshall .. i didn`t know ya could get just the spring by its self .. glad i didn`t toss the hand i broke the spring on trying to bend it .. Charlie talked me through the second one i got .. it bent with out breaking .. of course i was gonna blame Charlie if`in it had of broke ..the first one didn`t take much bending at all and it snapped .

[willyboy]

It's been my experience that what ever part you have spares for will not be the next part to break....

[Marshal Will Wingam]

It's been my experience that what ever part you have spares for will not be the next part to break....

Wow, buy a whole gun to use for parts and you're covered.

[willyboy]

Plus you have a new gun to play with!