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DW Cyl Latch Not Moving Down Enuff ?
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TOM44
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January 20, 2018 - 8:45 am
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Hello

A buddy's 44 (Monson) is a little hard to get the cyl to open. The latch/rectangular-piece doesn't seem to move down enough, away from top. It's not the cyl gap, nothing else is stopping it. The top of the angled part of the sliding latch just needs to move down another .020" or so.

Is there an ez way to make it move more ?

What keeps it from moving downwards more than it does ? Compressed spring ? Hard stop internally ?

How does that piece come apart ? Is that an allen screw on the front face or a (rolled) pin ?

I'm also reading other posts to see if I can find previous answers...

TIA

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Not sure what superdans response was, but there is likely possibly a buildup of powder residue, gummed up lubricant... under the cylinder latch. disassemble and clean?

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