I've mentioned somewhere before that I was making different trigger plates for my Ballard builds, here's another such project.
I'm sharing some proprietary photos of a few designs we came up with so it is a secret...
The striker assembly and the CC trigger design is ours and we did a PP but the market will never justify production- making it a joke.
I had made a set of CC trigger for this breech block and used it on this particular rifle (a 40-90BN). It works OK but not a favorite of mine, setting the triggers requires an extra step that sometimes I forget... After wiping, and loading, lying prone in the grass, focusing on your next shot, set to touch things off and... crap, forgot to set the trigger... often times I forget what rifle I brought to the dance... whereas a single trigger - give it a jerk and away things go. Can anyone relate?
The first photo, is starting with a piece of 3/4" by 2.5" hot rolled bar stock. I flycut a radius on the bottom of the trigger plate, followed by flycutting each side of what was to become the trigger plate taking it to thickness. I then roughed out my width of what will be the lug for holding the trigger, scribed a hole for the single trigger location, drilled and tapped this. I flipped the material in the vise and duplicated the mill work on the other side. I use the mill to rough things to scribed lines followed by file work to fit the plate to the breech block.
The single trigger shown is one I use for fitting, a final design will be made later to fit this particular block. You'll notice the protruding setscrew that engages the sear, I'll probably use a similar method, just not quite as long of projection.
The last pic shows the plate clamped in position via the vise, and it functions. Now what's left is filing, fitting, a small trigger spring, and some screw holes.
Greg