After owning a 22/45 Mk. 2 for a number of years and never having problems reassembling after a field strip, I've recently been having more and more cases where I ended up with a dead trigger following a cleaning - and the accompanying inability to remove the mainspring housing.
I went onto Youtube and found videos showing that if you point the gun down, hold the trigger back, and hit the back with a mallet, the hammer will fall, allowing you to disassemble. That worked.
But, given the fact that I'm now running into that situation following almost every cleaning now (regardless of assembling while looking directly at the instructions), I figured I must have something broken. So, I did a detailed strip, found nothing broken, then reassembled. I again ended up with a dead trigger, and even after doing the Youtube trick, now can't get the mainspring assembly out! I assume I reassembled the detail strip incorrectly, ending up in this state.
What can I do to recover? How can I get the main spring out? Is there some other miracle solution someone can turn me on to?
I went onto Youtube and found videos showing that if you point the gun down, hold the trigger back, and hit the back with a mallet, the hammer will fall, allowing you to disassemble. That worked.
But, given the fact that I'm now running into that situation following almost every cleaning now (regardless of assembling while looking directly at the instructions), I figured I must have something broken. So, I did a detailed strip, found nothing broken, then reassembled. I again ended up with a dead trigger, and even after doing the Youtube trick, now can't get the mainspring assembly out! I assume I reassembled the detail strip incorrectly, ending up in this state.
What can I do to recover? How can I get the main spring out? Is there some other miracle solution someone can turn me on to?