Ok I had this small issue but did not really think about it much. Just figured it would clean up as rounds went through it.
Anyway, I was on the net doing some searches and came across a you tube vid about cleaning up the gritty trigger on the LC9.
He goes through how to remove the firing pin etc and taking a small file after the notch on the top of the firing pin to remove some of the material were the blocker engages the firing pin.
I thought about it a minute and went through his procedure to remove the firing pin etc. I looked at the tab and thought, why go through all this. I reassembled the slide and removed the rear site, pulled out the blocker, polished up the front side of the blocker using a really fine worn out belt in my belt grinder and walla. Less then half the time for the same job basically.
While I had the blocker out, I took the little spring out of the blocker and cut 2 winds off the spring. I then pull the spring out of the blocker lift arm in the action and cut two winds off of that also. This was as per another you tube vid I had seen in the past.
Also as per another vid on You tube. I had pulled the hammer out and ran the side of the hammer against my belt grinder with the same worn out fine grit belt on it. Actually did this quite awhile ago. Doesn't take much actually but it takes away some of the friction of the hammer rubbing against the blocker arm etc inside the action.
I will say one thing about ghostses You tube vid though. It gave me a chance to pull the LCI and remove some of the button on it that a case pushes on when it is loaded into the chamber. The LCI (loaded chamber indicator) still sticks up when loaded just not as much as before.
Gritty trigger is now a nice smooth trigger, The stacking feeling at the end of the trigger pull is also gone.
Anyway, I was on the net doing some searches and came across a you tube vid about cleaning up the gritty trigger on the LC9.
He goes through how to remove the firing pin etc and taking a small file after the notch on the top of the firing pin to remove some of the material were the blocker engages the firing pin.
I thought about it a minute and went through his procedure to remove the firing pin etc. I looked at the tab and thought, why go through all this. I reassembled the slide and removed the rear site, pulled out the blocker, polished up the front side of the blocker using a really fine worn out belt in my belt grinder and walla. Less then half the time for the same job basically.
While I had the blocker out, I took the little spring out of the blocker and cut 2 winds off the spring. I then pull the spring out of the blocker lift arm in the action and cut two winds off of that also. This was as per another you tube vid I had seen in the past.
Also as per another vid on You tube. I had pulled the hammer out and ran the side of the hammer against my belt grinder with the same worn out fine grit belt on it. Actually did this quite awhile ago. Doesn't take much actually but it takes away some of the friction of the hammer rubbing against the blocker arm etc inside the action.
I will say one thing about ghostses You tube vid though. It gave me a chance to pull the LCI and remove some of the button on it that a case pushes on when it is loaded into the chamber. The LCI (loaded chamber indicator) still sticks up when loaded just not as much as before.
Gritty trigger is now a nice smooth trigger, The stacking feeling at the end of the trigger pull is also gone.
