Firing Pin Striking Incorrectly, Should I Be Concerned? PICS

Okay, I fired the 9mm Hungarian Tokagypt and kept the brass. It does have a very light primer wipe, but nowhere near as severe as on yours.

I was using Sellier & Bellot commercial 9x19, but I noticed that this uses silver-coloured primers and not brass like on your S&B commercial 7,62x25; perhaps the rounds you have use a very soft primer.

Next step I will put calipers to the firing pin dimensions and protrusion, to see if the older pistols show a difference.

capercanuck said:
there was no cosmoline in the action at all when i took it apart. it was spotless.
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You did take out the firing pin, and found no Cosmo on the spring or in the channel?

so, any help on where i can get a pin and spring, just in case?
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Wolff operates at Gunsprings dot com, and they ship to Canada. Put something for every gun you have in your cart.

New firing pins are made by Gun Parts Warehouse [dotcom], but they don't ship. You'd be looking at spares stripped from existing pistols if you need a replacement.

I have heard that under heavy use, TTs do tend to fail at the firing pin.
 
"You did take out the firing pin, and found no Cosmo on the spring or in the channel?"

- yes, spotless. i was surprised. these pistols wouldn't have been broken down that far when cleaned originally, before being sold owuld they?

Thanks for the Wolff sping information.....I'll be ordering this week.
 
one other thing.....

i've never shot surplus ammo. i've got 250 rounds here that i will be shooting this week.

i read that at the range i should spray a little window cleaner with amonia down the barrel after shooting. is this correct?

there's plenty of other threads about cleaning up after corrosive ammo, but since this seems to be a captive tokarev audience i'll ask what other owners do.

thanks

mike
 
capercanuck said:
one other thing.....

i've never shot surplus ammo. i've got 250 rounds here that i will be shooting this week.

i read that at the range i should spray a little window cleaner with amonia down the barrel after shooting. is this correct?

there's plenty of other threads about cleaning up after corrosive ammo, but since this seems to be a captive tokarev audience i'll ask what other owners do.

thanks

mike
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The consensus seems to be hot soapy water or hot water and simple green. But it is corrosive salts than are the problem, so whatever you use it's the water that does most of the work.

And clean it after shooting it, not a few days later, rust will start forming within hours.
 
the pistol will definately be cleaned the evening of firing.

it's an outdoor range, so just take a thermos of hot water? what about the ammonia thing, any truth to that?
 
Ammonia (products) should work as it's a base and it can neutralize the acid.

Assuming you use the DNR range in upper leitches creek...can a vehicle make it up the hill?
 
caperbound said:
Ammonia (products) should work as it's a base and it can neutralize the acid.

Assuming you use the DNR range in upper leitches creek...can a vehicle make it up the hill?
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nope, no vehicle traffic up there this time of year.

we walked in last week. i'm glad i only had a couple of pistols to carry, lugging rifles wouldn't have been any fun!
 
I use boiling water, remove the barrel pour the water around and down, and wipe down the slide etc and after drying oil to taste

Same process with sks
 
My firing pin was dragging heavily initially. I cleaned and cleaned and it got to the point where it didn't look too bad (to me anyway). Today it broke, after maybe 1500 rounds through the gun. Fun times finding a replacement.
 
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