NIB Colt 6933 - Safety Won't Move To Fire...

[Uncas47]

I give equal weight to the feel of the safety selector and the trigger. I have an expectation of what I want from each and I'm willing to chase it till I get it. As a result all my guns feel the same both under my thumb and behind my booger hook. With my eyes closed, I couldn't tell you which gun it is.

[Hammer_Man]

I give equal weight to the feel of the safety selector and the trigger. I have an expectation of what I want from each and I'm willing to chase it till I get it. As a result all my guns feel the same both under my thumb and behind my booger hook. With my eyes closed, I couldn't tell you which gun it is.

I’m OCD when it comes to my safety selectors, and for a while I would only buy Colt ambi safeties with the Schmid Tool markings. In my kind there is a difference.

[SteyrAUG]

Aren't all Colt's test fired before leaving the factory? If that's still the case, then how would this have been missed seeing as the selector couldn't be moved off of safe to do the test fire?

Barrel smells like it was test fired.

Best guess, test fired, put on safe, put in box.

One would think they'd manipulate the safety half a dozen times, pull the bolt half a dozen times, drop the hammer a half dozen times, but I guess that didn't happen.

Only reason I started this post is I'm not 100% familiar with installation / removal of the ambi safety so when it wouldn't move at all, I had to put up a "how dumb am I?" post just to make sure there wasn't something obvious I was missing.

[Waylander]

I’m OCD when it comes to my safety selectors, and for a while I would only buy Colt ambi safeties with the Schmid Tool markings. In my kind there is a difference.

Before I realized truly ambi safeties were a thing I found the reversible Colt safety made by Schmid with detent channels on both ends. I put those on most everything because I’m wrong handed. It seems Colt at the time was the only one at least that I know offered those.

The ambi Colt/Schmid we’re talking about here are also the only ones that can be totally reversed due to having the detent channel on both ends. The factory Schmid ambi are not reversible. I bought one and found out the hard way. I assume the Colt safeties must be special runs Schmid does for them.

[davidjinks]

Steyr,

I may have missed it, was the safety marked Schmid?

This is a factory 6933-EPR from a LE supplier so if a nylok patch is current Colt spec, that's is probably what it is. I assumed it was red loctite. Either way the installation would have been done at Colt as the rifle is a NIB factory SBR.

ETA: Also put the selector under a large magnifier. It really does look like they drilled the detent area too deep which would cause the detent to lock the selector up.

[SteyrAUG]

Steyr,

I may have missed it, was the safety marked Schmid?

Where would that marking be and how is it marked?

[mark5pt56]

[GTF425]

Where would that marking be and how is it marked?

They're marked with an S on the long lever.



Short lever has the Colt cage code. (c. 2013, anyway)

[davidjinks]

There will be an "S" on the safety lever. If it's a Colt, it will be cage code marked.

Where would that marking be and how is it marked?

[SteyrAUG]

There will be an "S" on the safety lever. If it's a Colt, it will be cage code marked.

Not seeing the S anywhere on the ambi lever I removed, also not seeing it on the 6920-EPR I bought almost 2 years back. However both short levers do have Colt cage code.