Tried to get the mainspring housing on my 22/45 (Mark II) back into gun after Ruger replaced the bolt stop. I'd sent them the mainspring housing and it came back with a new bolt stop later last year. Hadn't gotten around to reassembly until today while hoping to shoot.
The mainspring housing fits, but won't close. It stops short just a the point where the small end of the latch approaches (but doesn't reach) the grip frame. There's a real solid feel stopping the housing from entering the grip frame.
The same mainspring housing also stops at the same place on my other 22/45. That other 22/45's mainspring housing fits and closes properly in the gun from which the newly repaired housing came. So, it must be the housing that Ruger "repaired" that's the problem.
I'm sorry to say I'm really ticked off about it. I can't express how bad this is for me in a competition sense, because I must start serious practice for big matches coming up much sooner than they did last year.
The new stop pin they used doesn't look the same as the one that works from the other gun. The bottom of the pin nearby its attachment to the housing, is splayed or flanged out all around - not unlike the rim of a 22 case is flared out (for primer materials). It's this way all around. The functioning pin from the good gun, is perfectly smooth visually and to a finger or fingernail run down the stop pin and over its bottom end.
Damn to hell, I didn't need a non functioning gun at this time.
Does it seem to anyone like this bottom flaring of the stop pin is the problem. In any case the repair job replacing the stop pin must be defective because it works in neither gun, and the unrepaired mainspring housing and stop pin works in both guns.
The mainspring housing fits, but won't close. It stops short just a the point where the small end of the latch approaches (but doesn't reach) the grip frame. There's a real solid feel stopping the housing from entering the grip frame.
The same mainspring housing also stops at the same place on my other 22/45. That other 22/45's mainspring housing fits and closes properly in the gun from which the newly repaired housing came. So, it must be the housing that Ruger "repaired" that's the problem.
I'm sorry to say I'm really ticked off about it. I can't express how bad this is for me in a competition sense, because I must start serious practice for big matches coming up much sooner than they did last year.
The new stop pin they used doesn't look the same as the one that works from the other gun. The bottom of the pin nearby its attachment to the housing, is splayed or flanged out all around - not unlike the rim of a 22 case is flared out (for primer materials). It's this way all around. The functioning pin from the good gun, is perfectly smooth visually and to a finger or fingernail run down the stop pin and over its bottom end.
Damn to hell, I didn't need a non functioning gun at this time.
Does it seem to anyone like this bottom flaring of the stop pin is the problem. In any case the repair job replacing the stop pin must be defective because it works in neither gun, and the unrepaired mainspring housing and stop pin works in both guns.