Question about firing pins.

[Seaspriter]

can anyone recommend another source for these parts?

Try Sarco in Pennsylvania http://www.e-sarcoinc.com/
Liberty Tree Collectors http://www.libertytreecollectors.com/
or Brian Dick http://www.bdlltd.com/

[gsimmons]

Why don't try our very own Brian Dick?

[ssj]

35thou is a bit short, 50thou more like it.

Love how Bruce says you "select a striker", me I have been looking for a spare for well over a year with no joy, like Hen's teeth...

[5thBatt]

35thou is a bit short, 50thou more like it.

Love how Bruce says you "select a striker", me I have been looking for a spare for well over a year with no joy, like Hen's teeth...

No1 or No4?

[ssj]

It is the same primer that it is striking, so I dont quite understand you?

[Kiwi]

It is the same primer that it is striking, so I dont quite understand you?

The striker for a no.1 and no.4 do not have the same thread, so it's important to know what striker you are after. As Bruce in Oz noted earlier on:
"Check that you indeed have the correct pattern of striker. Both SMLE and No4 are .250" diameter and have "fine" threads. HOWEVER: SMLE thread is 1/4" x30 TPI "Enfield Special"; No4 is 1/4" x 26."

[Peter Laidler]

Warpig, you surprise me (thread 7………..) RGE0012, please listen to me……….. There is more to fitting a new striker than you think or are being lead to believe. You CAN do it, so can everyone else but the striker and bolt head together control 7 important aspects of CORRECTLY setting up a bolt the correct way.

PLEASE read and then read again a short article wot I writ a year or so ago about how to do it properly including the permissible overturn (affected by the striker) lift (affected by the striker) and so on and so on. Including the all important firing pin protrusion of between .040 low and .050 high.

[WarPig1976]

Warpig, you surprise me (thread 7

Sorry........One has to do what one has to do when there aren't bins of parts about. I'd have already chucked this striker in a drill, polished it and be giving a report back by now, all for free.

[Peter Laidler]

I appreciate that warping. The same applies when people feel that they want to screw-on a larger bolt head for reasons that they and I don't quite understand!!!!! It's not quite that simple. There's MUCH more to it than that and……. You know what I mean and bang on about!

I have just heard (at a US gun show) that the true way to increase striker protrusion is to machine the face of the bolt head back '…..a bit'. I'm learning……...

[Brian Dick]

Firing pin protrusion specification
Minimum = .040
Maximum = .050