I disassembled and cleaned and replaced some worn/hand made parts on my father’s Beretta 92FS Inox. I am having some difficulties with re-staking the extractor and hammer release lever pins. My first question is:
Should I or should I not stake the extractor pin as the pistol with function just fine the way it is. But in the armorer manual it states that you should stake it, but how to do it, with what tool?
Also, regarding the hammer release lever pin, that large headed pin on the left frame rail, show should I stake it? I am afraid that I can accidentally crack the frame rail by slamming it with a hammer as it is an aluminum frame.
Please help
Looking at my 92E, the extractor pin has been staked at the top of the slide. The staking runs longitudinally along the axis of the slide on both sides of the pin. The bottom does not appeared to be staked. Does you slide have the same stakings? It almost looks like it was made by a flat head screwdriver. I believe this pin is tapered so I assume you drove it out from the bottom?
On the hammer pin, there is some staking on the left side but it does not look to be very effective. I would take a prick punch and just lightly stake both sides of the frame surrounding the pin. The soft aluminum should require only the lightest of staking.
As far as if it should be done. The hammer pin would not give you any trouble as far as function if it wasn’t staked. It will be retained by the slide during operation. However if not staked it could possibly work out when disassembled.
I would re-stake the extractor pin as you don’t want that working loose when firing. Instead of a flat tip screw driver, I would again just use a prick punch and lightly stake both sides of the pin in the original location. Also considering the fact that you slide is not exposed to as much heat as say is generated in the BCG of an AR-15, loctite might be a perfectly viable solution here.
Hopefully we will get some real expertise here instead of my “shade-tree armorer” advise You could also wonder over to the Beretta forums and see what they say.
You could also wonder over to the Beretta forums and see what they say.