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by justafixer
January 31st, 2012, 1:18 pm
Forum: Modifications, Fixes, and Repairs
Topic: Peening the slide
Replies: 14
Views: 11499

Re: Peening the slide

That's a great photo, all four of my guns look about the same. Don't forget to file that hammer a little as it shows in the photo on my earlier post, you don't have to remove the hammer to file it.
by justafixer
November 14th, 2011, 5:51 pm
Forum: Modifications, Fixes, and Repairs
Topic: Peening the slide
Replies: 14
Views: 11499

Re: Peening the slide

If the safety turns freely I wouldn't worry about filing the slide. Just file the hammer a little as it shows in the photo on my earlier post, you don't have to remove the hammer to file it.
by justafixer
November 14th, 2011, 4:32 pm
Forum: Modifications, Fixes, and Repairs
Topic: Peening the slide
Replies: 14
Views: 11499

Re: Peening the slide

The peening causes the safety catch to be hard to turn, or in my case I could no longer turn the safety catch making the safety usless. I have four P-64's they all had the same problems to varying degrees. See my post and photo it just take a little filing of the hammer to fix the problem, if your s...
by justafixer
September 30th, 2011, 4:59 pm
Forum: Modifications, Fixes, and Repairs
Topic: Peening the slide
Replies: 14
Views: 11499

Re: Peening the slide

Just a quick note: the photo of the hammer I submitted was AFTER I filed the radius going any further would make it round. My camera won’t take as nice of a close up photo as juniustaylor does. I also noticed the hammer shown in the disassemble manual was quite rounded compared to mine.
by justafixer
September 30th, 2011, 4:08 pm
Forum: Modifications, Fixes, and Repairs
Topic: Peening the slide
Replies: 14
Views: 11499

Re: Peening the slide

After firing about 20 rounds the safety catch started to get hard to turn after another 20 rounds I could no longer rotate the safety catch. I went out to the shop and disassembled the gun and found the hammer slide and safety catch were damaged. The hammer slide was severally peened, as you will se...