kneelingatlas Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I got my first pistol at 11 and it was a Walther OSP2000 with a 47 gram trigger, so needless to say I'm hooked on light triggers. Right now my CZ75 TS breaks at 1#, 4oz with polished, stock internals, which I'm pretty happy with. On my Production Jericho, I finally got an 8.5# hammer spring running 100% with whatever primers I feed it; that one comes in around 2#, 4oz SA and 5#, 10oz DA. It has seemed to me, both intuitively and empirically that a heavy hammer can break primers more consistently than a light hammer driven by the same spring, but I see a lot of custom race guns with bobbed/lightened hammers? I understand that a light hammer spring is not as critical to a light SA trigger as it is to DA, but are these guns running heavy hammer springs? I would imagine a light hammer would make the fire and cycle faster, is that the reasoning? I am interesting in speeding up my TS (the slide is currently at fat camp losing two ounces), but before I start chopping up hammers, I thought I would seek some advice from the pros! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EkuJustice Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Light hammer travels faster than a heavy one with the same spring and gives it more if a jolt which makes it easier to set the primer. The heavy hammer is like a push the light one is like a jab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kneelingatlas Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 Thanks for the input, I've got some spare hammers I'm going to start cutting up this weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racer377 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I wonder why no one has done a "hammer energy calculator" that does the physics/math for light n fast hammer momentum vs. heavy and slow hammer momentum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltdmstr Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Light hammer, heavy spring. Most people use a lighter spring to try to decrease trigger pull weight. What they end up with is a mushy trigger and sometimes inconsistent ignition. A proper trigger job with a heavier spring yields crisp trigger and reliable ignition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 The lighter hammer decreases lock time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kneelingatlas Posted December 7, 2012 Author Share Posted December 7, 2012 I wonder why no one has done a "hammer energy calculator" that does the physics/math for light n fast hammer momentum vs. heavy and slow hammer momentum. I think that's a really complicated model into which you would have to plug a lot of assumptions; it's probably easier/cheaper to chop up some hammers and shoot some splits, I just wanted to save some time and ask others to share their experiences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kneelingatlas Posted December 7, 2012 Author Share Posted December 7, 2012 Light hammer, heavy spring. Most people use a lighter spring to try to decrease trigger pull weight. What they end up with is a mushy trigger and sometimes inconsistent ignition. A proper trigger job with a heavier spring yields crisp trigger and reliable ignition. This is becoming clear to me; before I started polishing parts I used light springs to lower the force needed to overcome friction and now I'm lowering the frictional coefficient for the same effect. I'm also toying with the idea of center milling the trigger plunger and disconnector on my Jericho to reduce the surface area the over which the friction acts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpolans Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 (edited) The lighter hammer decreases lock time. This is the only reason. Edited December 7, 2012 by mpolans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltdmstr Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Not the only reason. If you have a light trigger pull due to reduced hammer/sear surface, a heavy hammer (or trigger) can bounce and cause doubling. This is another reason for using a heavier vs. lighter hammer spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpolans Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Not the only reason. If you have a light trigger pull due to reduced hammer/sear surface, a heavy hammer (or trigger) can bounce and cause doubling. This is another reason for using a heavier vs. lighter hammer spring. My bad, forgot about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resjudicata Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 The revolver guys run lightened hammers to go along with lighter springs and get better ignition from it. It could have something to do with a difference between how the revolver hammer spring works on it's hammer vs. an automatic. I'm not smart enough to do the math. But, I got better ignition on my revolvers with lightened springs after shaving weight off the hammers. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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