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Posted: 8/30/2012 2:15:13 AM EDT
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I bought a Draco with the intentions of SBRing it. Long story short it sat I the back of the safe for a couple of years collecting dust. I recently took it out and fired it for the first time. First the firearm would not go all the way into battery. I chalked this up to an ass load of cosmoline still in the gun. I fired a few rounds when I could get the action closed all the way and called it a day. Cleaned the hell out of it an took her out again.
She was still doing the same thing but not quite as bad. I could almost make it through a magazine. I thought maybe it was the recoil spring so I swapped out the spring from my Krink...no luck. Then I noticed the trigger was not resetting all the way every once in a while. Not sure if it was doing that the whole time as I was focused on the other malfunction. I've cleaned the firearm thoroughly a few times and I'm still getting both malfunctions. Any suggestions? |
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Mine did the same thing as yours is doing.
My answer was to first clean the thing top to bottom, then I spend evenings constantly cycling the action over and over ( or you can keep putting rounds through it and do the same thing). This smoothed up the action and it cycles like a CHAMP! Its been Form 1 and SBR route and is a real keeper!!!! There was alot of roughness in my Draco.....  TH
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It does not seem that the piston is rubbing against the tube. As far as the trigger I removed the top cover and dry fired it several times to try and see what was going on. I can't get it to repeat the trigger malfunction when dry firing. I'll keep cycling the action by hand and see if that helps.
Thanks for the input. |
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Mine was failing to cycle because of a high trigger and too much contact/friction between the bolt carrier and the hammer while the bolt carrier was riding back and forth. I filed off the square edges on the hammer and then polished both the bolt carrier bottom and rail notches, as well as the newly filed hammer face.
Runs a whole lot better now. A lot of people will tell you to just keep shooting it, but ammo is expensive these days, and this process only took 20 minutes or so. You decide what's worth more to you, ammo or your time. Az |
| Add me to the list. My '68 Draco-C had to be hand-cycled a couple hundred times with polishing compound on the hammer because it would hang up. After that, no issues for about 1,000 rounds. Since then, I've switched to an RSA adjustable trigger, which didn't require any break-in but I polished all the bearing surfaces on it anyways for smoother operation. |
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