Good Morning,
Usually a silent reader on the forum, but I’m having trouble finding some information and I’m hoping someone can help.
I dropped a T5 disco into my Shadow 2 and the SA isn’t resetting. I did enough reading here to determine that I needed to take some material off of the CGW disco. Round one I went minimal and used 1k sandpaper. This DIDNT work as I’m sure any of would have told me, but I was nervous about taking too much off.
Called Thomas at CGW and he said to use a diamond grit file. This time I took quite a bit off—got it pretty much flat. At this point I tested the SA at home by cocking the pistol and pulling the trigger. It reset, but there was no way to test an actual cycle so I went back to the range.
Failure to reset in SA in the firing cycle. So now I’m back home—taking off some more. I have a theoretical way of testing this without dropping $20 to go to the range, but I’m not sure if it’s viable. If I pull the trigger, hold it, cock it, and then release the trigger I do get a reset.
My question is: is this the best way to test this outside of driving to the range and shooting it? Like is this a valid test? I’ve now dropped $60 at the range firing a total of 10 rounds (lol), and would prefer to be pretty certain before I go back.
Also have a 11.5# hammer spring and 11# recoil spring—these wouldn’t have any effect on the not resetting in SA would they? The only reason I ask is because the trigger works when I cock the pistol (SA) but not on the cycle? It also functions if I brass check after a cycle.
I apologize for any bad terminology here this is the first pistol that I’ve actually worked on myself so I’m still learning these terms.