wesnellans
Expert
Only thing I had was feeler gauges, which actually did the trick with a little patience. And did indeed find a fleck or two inside. The hand torsion spring seemed to pop past dead center when manually manipulated (number 71 in diagram) but I’m not sure that wasn’t because of being out of gun and being subjected to more of an arc of movement than allowed for when in place. Cleared out what I could see, lubed the BONE dry insides a little, reassembled. Gotta run for grocery pickup will test when I return.That's not good. I'd give Lipsey's a call...they went above and beyond to take care of some issues I had with my first one.
My guess...and it's only a guess, is that there may be some shavings or something left over from the manufacturing process in there binding up your rebound slide. I've not experienced the same problem that you are having, but my replacement gun did a weird thing at one point where it would advance the cylinder but not actuate the hammer. I opened it up and found some shavings (more flecks, really) that I believe were binding up the DA sear and keeping it from engaging the trigger. I cleaned it out really well and gave it a light polish and it's been 100% ever since (with a superb trigger, I might add). It's actually in my pocket right now.
Tapping the grips with a delrin hammer separated them enought that I was able to get a plastic wedge in between the panels and separate them without marring them at all. I've had them off a few times now, and while it's definitely more difficult that other grips, it's do-able and IMO speaks to excellent build quality by VZ.
ETA: Here's the write-up I did on my experience with the gun(s)...looks like that thread kinda died before I had the issue with the DA sear.
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