{"id":1223,"date":"2010-07-09T18:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2010-07-09T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:06:51","slug":"rossi-src-92-firing-pin-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Rossi SRC (92) firing pin replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the other day I was at the range with my Rossi SRC in 38 Special \/ 357 Magnum and I short-stroked the lever and pulled the trigger. *click* — that was to be expected.<\/p>\n

But the next trigger pull also resulted in a *click* — Hmmm, broken firing pin.<\/p>\n

Of course these things are not available locally, but a question on GunSite<\/a> put me in contact with\u00c2\u00a0 Adlow Engineering<\/a> (speak to Leon), and R700 got me a new firing pin.<\/p>\n

\"RossiFiringPin\"<\/p>\n

Of course some hand fitting (grindstone and file) was required. No, this is not a trick photograph, I ordered two, kept one for a spare.<\/p>\n

The pin is still a bit long, gives a very positive strike. I might have to stone it down a bit more.

So the other day I was at the range with my Rossi SRC in 38 Special \/ 357 Magnum and I short-stroked the lever and pulled the trigger. *click* — that was to be expected. But the next trigger pull also resulted in a *click* — Hmmm, broken firing pin. Of course these things are not available locally, but a question on GunSite put me in contact with\u00c2\u00a0 Adlow Engineering (speak to Leon), and R700 got me a new firing pin. Of course some hand fitting (grindstone and file) was required. No, this is not a trick photograph, I ordered...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}