The tripless trip

[TARNATION !!!]

I have seen some interesting homemade repairs on the less than collectable Parker’s. It’s my mental health therapy to take these in and return them to at least a good shooter. Today I found a tripless trip. Somebody did a decent job of copying a trip but created just the solid shape. No spring or pin. Needless to say the whole purpose of the three parts of a trip was defeated. Kinda like watching a documentary on the Caribbean and believing you were on a trip. Sort of but not really. Cheers Jack

[Dean Romig]

Does it function?





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[TARNATION !!!]

No. It can’t hold the lever open. And looking at the top “knob” you can see it is marred a lot from forcing the lever open and closed. It wore down eventually. But you wonder when things don’t work what might be the issue. And this qualifies as an issue.

[B. Dudley]

All I see is what looks like a piece of welding slag. Or something that I can fish out of the chip tray on the lathe.