Customer complained that once in a great while safety would not go on in this new Win 94 with a tang safety. Refinished stock and put back together, tightened up butt stock and safety would not go on at all. Fitted safety and goes off and on every time but is kind of stiff just after firing. If I don’t fire it and work the safety on and off it gets easier to go off and on. Do you think I need to take a little more off the safety? The lever locks up good and tight with the safety on. I just hate to take too much off of the safety and end up with another problem.
Before you do any altering, I would check all the safety linkage and make sure it fits where and how it is supposed to. Make sure the trigger returns as it is supposed to as this will affect the safety assembly. Remember the safety worked one time so something is causing it not to work now, not just magic.
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Checked the safety linkage again everything ok. Checked the trigger return, ok. Put stock back on and safety wouldn’t go on. Backed out the stock bolt about 1/8 turn and safety worked excellent. I must have the stock bolt tighter than it was. Removed safety and took of about another1/1000 and stoned tit real nice and smooth. Reassembled stock and cranked tight. Safety now works smooth as silk. I have this thing about tighten screws and bolts, probably tighter than need be. But I don’t want anything coming loose on the customer either. Thanks Gregg
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Yeah I like to have the screws tight as well. Did you ever figure out why the safety wouldn’t work with the stock tight? Ken
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I think it’s like Bob talks about in the video. The tangs are flexible on these guns and he says that they never really go on the same every time.(the stock)I believe I was getting the stock tighter than it was. With the stock tighter it squeezes the tangs together a little more thus the safety linkage was binding in between the top tang and the trigger.
