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Ballard Triggers
Aug 31st, 2023 at 9:42am
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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... Grin 
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
  

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Re: Ballard Triggers
Reply #1 - Aug 31st, 2023 at 11:40am
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I like it Greg! Especially the use of coil springs! Neat!
How many hours do you think you have into making a close coupled set trigger assembly?
  

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Re: Ballard Triggers
Reply #2 - Sep 1st, 2023 at 1:26am
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Thanks Vall,
The one shown is the third version where we rotated the tigger sears to minimize the height of the trigger assembly.  To answer your question, now that I have kind of figured out the process, about 10 - 12 hours.  To get the first one figured out... probably 40+ and a fair pile of scrap.  Here's where they start from a piece of flat bar.
  

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Reply #3 - Sep 1st, 2023 at 10:21am
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Amazing work Greg!
  

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