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Hi,
hope to get some help.
I just purchased a P64 a few days ago...took it to the range, fired her off...all was good in the world.
Well, I then decided to break her down and clean.
Some how along the way I managed to do something to the safety which now will not disengage the hammer.
Better describing the problem, I cannot lower the safety lever.
I've looked at the manual, exploded views, and searched the web.
For what it's worth to say, the mechanism to pull the hammer back works fine and
the mechanism to pull the trigger works just fine.
I can disengage the hammer by lightly pulling the trigger with my thumb on the hammer, but that isnt the safest thing, especially when thers a bullet in the chamber. LOL

Can one of you who has maybe had this happen help me fix the problem.
Thank you
Frank

I figured it out.
Don't know what happened mind you, but it works perfectly now...a tad stiff...but working none the less.

Best regards

I had a similar issue with inability to put the gun on safety and decock the hammer. BTW, the exploded view and parts list helped greatly

You might want to make sure the disconnector is clean and causes the hammer to decock when depressed with a dowel or pencil. (NOTE: keep fingers (and thumb) away from that hammer--it will pinch like a crawdad.)

It (the disconnector) may be a little rough and need some very careful polishing (don't remove metal--just a nice polishing). Before I did this, it took both hands (both thumbs that is) to put the safety on and decock the hammer. Once I pulled off the slide and tested the decock function, it made some sense to me.

You may have had some fouling jam up the disconnector, it seems to have a pretty tight tolerance, and it isn't the smoothest part either.

I haven't had the problem since, so I suppose that I must've hit pretty close to the mark.

Regards,
Wile E. Coyote