[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Sidefolder latch instilation.

**Posted: 1/12/2009 1:55:17 PM EDT**

You can do it, but it's a pain in the ass. At least it has been every time I've done it.

**Posted: 1/12/2009 4:05:11 PM EDT**

Quoted:
. Please tell me you can do it after the front truion is installed! Tiggy.

It usally goes on before ..

Have fun.

I did with small hemostates and alot of cussin.

2 days later when I calmed down.
It was in

**Posted: 1/12/2009 4:09:17 PM EDT**

It's a bitch.

**Posted: 1/12/2009 5:17:57 PM EDT**

Drink heavily, then try to install it.

Let me just say.........................FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK

**Posted: 1/12/2009 6:52:32 PM EDT**

Hey, it is your lucky day:

Latch Tool

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**Posted: 1/12/2009 6:58:17 PM EDT**

Quoted:
Hey, it is your lucky day:

Latch Tool

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I saw that thread earlier today and thought it looked pretty cool.

**Posted: 1/12/2009 8:22:21 PM EDT**

Thanks all, that tool is the
KEY! To my sanity as well as the latch! Going to start on it tomorrow after a good night sleep. Thats 2.5 hours of my life ill never get back.

**Posted: 1/13/2009 7:43:45 AM EDT**

Why kit are you installing it on? Some, like a romy, would need a modification to the trunion before the trunion is riveted.

**Posted: 1/13/2009 2:20:04 PM EDT**

nice tool,

I made a similar one out of a wrench, but it doesn't have the stop. I haven't had any problems installing with it, but that little stop is something I'll try

also made a tool modeled after a USGI M1 Carbine hammer spring tool to compress and install the rear spring - just need to find where I filed the pics.

**Posted: 1/13/2009 5:12:17 PM EDT**

Gunplumber, if you find the pics for the rear spring compressor let me know here I could have used that as well, total pain in the ass. I ended up feeding the tag end of the spring thru the side of the receiver. Oh well live and learn.

**Posted: 1/14/2009 5:28:33 PM EDT**

found it.

The paddles are just fender washers I welded to a $3 harbor freight needle-nose plier.

the spring pry tool is a brad nail puller opened up.

the front spring wrench is an unmodified 5.5mm

the slit screwdriver is self-explanatory.

It looks like the tool the other guy made would replace the wrench and screwdriver.

the hook is for when the front latch axle cants toward the rear of the receiver, I can pull it forward a bit to find the hole in the trunion.

If you are making the folder from a non-folding kit, make sure you drill the hole in the trunion before installing it in the receiver, or the barrel in the trunion. Much harder to do after the fact and higher risk as you can drill through the chamber.

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**Posted: 1/14/2009 5:33:00 PM EDT**

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found it.

http://www.arizonaresponsesystems.com/webpictures/aktool100spring01.jpg

Wow! That "tool" (left top) looks like a lobster clow

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Sidefolder latch instilation.

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