bpjack wrote on Jun 1^st, 2023 at 11:14pm:


If the trigger and the hammer are both attached to the receiver it's self, it is likely that they could be attached to the exterior of the receiver using the same pins and screws, making the relationship easy to see. On the hand, if the hammer is attached to the breech block (winchester), that will not work and you will need to cut your old hi-wall apart to see the relationship; an image I will try very hard to get out of my mind!

Nice work on the block HarrisHighwall.  I wish that I could claim to be an old school machinist, but alas, I am just an old hobbyist.

On the vise sear stoning jig, the only time it has failed me was on an M1 carbine.  There is some odd geometry on the carbine hammers, and they need some camming to avoid going full auto.

The vise can be used as a fixture for stoning the trigger as well, I just don’t have a picture handy.  The setup is the same, except the engagement surface is made to just barely stick out the side of the vise.  The vise is then rotated so that the trigger sear engagement surface is up, and it is stoned parallel with the vise.  I generally the break the trailing edge slightly at about a 45 degree angle which has the same effect as making the hammer notch more shallow.