...HK45c V1 BB to heavy LEM.
Successful in all bench tests...will get to the range this week for the real shakedown.
Thanks to many who have authoritatively posted about LEM (over the years for gosh sakes) but especially recently to HKfaninMD, Brownie, and of course Carrera with the videos.
Couple of observations from my effort.
None of the axles or pins would push out with just hand pressure on the punch. A soft wood "hammer" - 1x1X6 (inches - you weren't thinking feet were you) - to tap the punch with worked - one or two raps and then hand pressure was fine. Ya always pause before taking a persuader to anything, but I did not want a punch to slip and...I won't even say it.
The hammer strut fell out earlier than on video, and for some reason I ended up with hammer down and not cocked at that point in the video. No big deal as it turned out.
It's the shorter hammer spring in the universal LEM kit for heavy LEM on a 45c. Got that self - SHORTER SPRING!
I was gonna do the Todd Green Special, but decided to change out the hammer spring. May still do TGS, as the hammer spring is easy - compared to...
I've read that the heavy TRS (square stock) is the easiest to install with the obtuse angle of the spring feet. I can see that, but unless you have a second person to play gun vise then I'd suggest using a bench and appropriate gun vise. BTW - it's shown in the exploded parts view, but the trigger axle is a dual diameter piece - for the 45/45c anyway. The instructions correctly say to remove it right to left and install left to right and that's the only way you can do it. Exploded parts view indicates that, too. Even I'd have to try hard to mess that up.
I did the LEM conversion first before the TRS and with limited bench fiddling do like the increased effort - very noticeable - to take up the initial trigger slack with the heavy TRS. No trigger gauge so will not speculate on pull effort. Id' say the trigger reset is "crisper", but experience is less than limited.
But I'm gonna have to draft a local militia to help pull the new DA trigger - the one you can only optionally use for a second strike. If you thought the V1 DA pull took some effort...
More tap, rack, bang practice...
New exposed hammer is ever so slightly to the left of centered, but with good clearance and vertical - not crooked - so lucked out there I guess.
Cheers,
Pete
Successful in all bench tests...will get to the range this week for the real shakedown.
Thanks to many who have authoritatively posted about LEM (over the years for gosh sakes) but especially recently to HKfaninMD, Brownie, and of course Carrera with the videos.
Couple of observations from my effort.
None of the axles or pins would push out with just hand pressure on the punch. A soft wood "hammer" - 1x1X6 (inches - you weren't thinking feet were you) - to tap the punch with worked - one or two raps and then hand pressure was fine. Ya always pause before taking a persuader to anything, but I did not want a punch to slip and...I won't even say it.
The hammer strut fell out earlier than on video, and for some reason I ended up with hammer down and not cocked at that point in the video. No big deal as it turned out.
It's the shorter hammer spring in the universal LEM kit for heavy LEM on a 45c. Got that self - SHORTER SPRING!
I was gonna do the Todd Green Special, but decided to change out the hammer spring. May still do TGS, as the hammer spring is easy - compared to...
I've read that the heavy TRS (square stock) is the easiest to install with the obtuse angle of the spring feet. I can see that, but unless you have a second person to play gun vise then I'd suggest using a bench and appropriate gun vise. BTW - it's shown in the exploded parts view, but the trigger axle is a dual diameter piece - for the 45/45c anyway. The instructions correctly say to remove it right to left and install left to right and that's the only way you can do it. Exploded parts view indicates that, too. Even I'd have to try hard to mess that up.
I did the LEM conversion first before the TRS and with limited bench fiddling do like the increased effort - very noticeable - to take up the initial trigger slack with the heavy TRS. No trigger gauge so will not speculate on pull effort. Id' say the trigger reset is "crisper", but experience is less than limited.
But I'm gonna have to draft a local militia to help pull the new DA trigger - the one you can only optionally use for a second strike. If you thought the V1 DA pull took some effort...
More tap, rack, bang practice...
New exposed hammer is ever so slightly to the left of centered, but with good clearance and vertical - not crooked - so lucked out there I guess.
Cheers,
Pete