Target Talk

Trigger Weight Tester?

Posted by Jerry on September 06, 2001 at 22:44:29:
Greetings,
Does anyone know where a 500 gram trigger weight tester can be found/purchased? Anything simple, but accurate, will do...
Is it the case that :
Total Weight = First Stage Weight + Second Stage Weight
I would like to fiddle a bit with the Morini trigger, lighten the second stage a "smidgen" and increase the first stage weight a "tad". (And not have it go off whilst lifting the gun and pointing to the target :)
--Jerry

Posted by Cecil Coale on September 07, 2001 at 06:35:51:
Brownells at www.brownells.com has one that I use. See Chatillon "2# recording trigger pull gauge with hook". It has a dual scale of 0 to 1000 grams and 0 to 2.2 pounds.
Regards,
Cecil Coale
McKinney, Texas
We Have the Official ISSF One

Posted by pilkguns on September 07, 2001 at 07:39:11:
Posted by Larry Lohkamp on September 08, 2001 at 03:49:40:
I don't see no trigger weights listed on your WEB page. How many other goodies do you have lurking around the shop that we don't know about. I can't buy more stuff from ya if I don't know what's there.

Posted by pilkguns on September 09, 2001 at 10:28:15:   what we don't have in stock we can Eurosale

Posted by Bob LeDoux on September 08, 2001 at 20:35:26:
I went to my local scrap metal dealer and bought a chunk of scrap brass. I also purchased a piece of 1/8" brazing rod. I thread the rod to fit into a hole I tapped in the end of the brass.
The next job was to take this assembly to my local druggist (chemist for you folks across the pond) and have each piece weighed. I determined the approximate portion to cut off the brass bar, polished it up and took everything back. As anticipated, it was a bit heavy. So I drilled out the bottom of the bar to take the weight off. After two tries, I got the final assembly within 10 grams, on the heavy side, just for a little error leeway. Polished brass is very pretty, and the test handle perfectly fits my pistola.

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