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repairing the l46 or l57 safety

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safari1

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The safety lever on mine slips on the safety shaft. NFG for sure. Stonecreek has advised that there was a thread in here precisely describing how to repair it. There was apparently pics as well.

If you can steer me to that thread, I would be extremely grateful.
Cheers Safari1- Bob.
 
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safari1, Use the advanced search function at the top right side of the forum and search "L46 safety" that should take you to related threads. Look for thread " Riihimaki L46 bolt disassembly step by step guide " posted by topgear . hope this helps. Jim
 
The safety lever on mine spins on the safety shaft. NFG for sure. Stonecreek has advised that there was a thread in here precisely describing how to repair it. There was apparently pics as well.

If you can steer me to that thread, I would be extremely grateful.
Cheers Safari1- Bob.
There is a very small diameter pin that goes thru the lever & shaft. It may have sheared off or fallen out. Any steel pin of the right diameter can be used to replace it. If the pin is missing or broken you should be able to pull the lever off. Just an educated guess without a hands on look.
 
No pin on mine. The lever was press fitted onto the shaft. Too bad Sako did not use a tapered spline design on the shaft, something like the wheel lugs that are press fitted onto a brake drum of your vehicle. Mechanics have to use a cutting torch quite often to remove a broken wheel lug. They very seldom just pound out.
 
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My L57 did the same thing. It would never go on safety because the shaft would not rotate when the thumb lever rotated. No pin on it so the g/s had to re-solder it. The 1st time he tried it, it was not indexed properly but the next time he got it right.

This is is old school with metal-on-metal lifting of the firing pin off the sear under all that spring pressure...kind of like an old Mauser. So there's lots of pressure required to put it 'ON' safe compared to most rifles that only block the trigger. Mine works great now, if not a little stiff.

The heat will likely discolor/dull the thumb lever so be aware of that. I wish they'd stuck with the L46 design that had the pin.

Phil
 

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