inerlogic
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So i picked up a box of parts the *used* to be a CZ-82....
it was missing about 30 pieces.....
I placed an order with CZ-USA, shipping took about 3 days (Fed-Ex Ground)
for the most part (more on that in a bit) the CZ-83 parts are interchangeable with the CZ-82...
one hiccup, i ordered and was invoiced for a "Sear Spring" but whoever was doing the order picking
shipped me a Sear.... which is great... YAY!!! FREE SEAR!!!
but.... i still needed the Sear Spring..... so i called CZ-USA (apparently they stop answering the phone at 4PM CENTRAL time...)
-1 REP for CZ-USA
dude said they'd ship the spring right out to me.
didn't ask for the sear back or charge me for it or anything..... i offered but "nah, keep it, on us for your trouble"
+1 rep for CZ-USA
the spring arrived (arrove?) at the UPS Store Wednesday (3 day shipping... Fed-Ex ground)
i brought it home, commandeered the wife's computer and desk (mine has no free space), fired up both the Sailor Curt site and this dude's site and set to work...
neither site shows a good representation of how the main spring strut should go into the pistol....
and since i'd never taken a CZ-82 (or any other pistol for that matter) apart, i threw it in the way i *thought* it went in...
assembled the entire thing to the point where it was time to add the main spring and plug... then realized i had it backwards.....
i suppose i could've looked at the diagram, but eh.... who wants to trust a drawing?
that's ok, the point of buying this thing was to get practice putting it together and taking it apart!!
the auto-safety/sear spring part of the instructions are played up as being challenging and very hard to do...
it wasn't that bad actually..... 1/8" punch and about 4 tries to figure out the move i needed to make and it was a snap....
THEN, i spent 45 minutes trying to get the slide stop and slide stop spring to behave....
one problem.....
the Slide Stop Spring that CZ-USA sells is for the new version of the CZ-83 *not* my SHE89 CZ-82
the spring is "L" shaped (see below)
Some google research showed that the short part of the "L" sits in a small hole drilled somewhere in the frame of the CZ-83, apparently the factory was retrofitting '83s a while ago for free because the old style spring was prone to disappearing, but they don't officially support the '82, so people were saying their attempts were fruitless...
i don't want to be shipping guns to K.C.,K. unless i *really* have to, so a google search for "CZ-82 Slide Stop Springs" brought up an oolldd forum post from this guy Norm Sutton down in florida who makes an updated version of the spring which should stay put.... i emailed him to make sure he was still alive and still making springs, he assured me he was (on both counts) and sent me an updated forum link:
http://olderthendirt.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=buy&action=display&thread=313&
$5 for the spring and shipping, he accepts PayPal, i ordered half a dozen....
*he also makes springs for the P64 and i'm sure some other stuff....
i also tried cutting down a large safety pin that i happened to have on the wife's desk... it was too thick to fit though.... i'm positive it would've worked and i would've loved to brag for the MacGuyver points...
Norm said he'd mail the springs today... so... the saga continues....
NOW I NEED GRIPS!!!!
my thought is to eventually refinish both of my CZ-82s, and stick wooden grips on one, probably carbon fiber or kevlar on the other..... for now i'd settle for factory stock beat up plastic grips as long as they were in one piece...
(hint to anyone out there who may have a spare set they're willing to part with)
also hopefully this thread will be indexed by google so anyone wondering why the L shaped slide stop spring they got from CZ-USA isn't working will see this and have any easier path to finding the right spring (or enough info to make their own)
*also heard a nasty rumor that CZ is stopping production on the '83....
we should probably order some spare internal parts......
ETA: more photos and words added in post 20 and later
it was missing about 30 pieces.....
I placed an order with CZ-USA, shipping took about 3 days (Fed-Ex Ground)
for the most part (more on that in a bit) the CZ-83 parts are interchangeable with the CZ-82...
one hiccup, i ordered and was invoiced for a "Sear Spring" but whoever was doing the order picking
shipped me a Sear.... which is great... YAY!!! FREE SEAR!!!
but.... i still needed the Sear Spring..... so i called CZ-USA (apparently they stop answering the phone at 4PM CENTRAL time...)
-1 REP for CZ-USA
dude said they'd ship the spring right out to me.
didn't ask for the sear back or charge me for it or anything..... i offered but "nah, keep it, on us for your trouble"
+1 rep for CZ-USA
the spring arrived (arrove?) at the UPS Store Wednesday (3 day shipping... Fed-Ex ground)
i brought it home, commandeered the wife's computer and desk (mine has no free space), fired up both the Sailor Curt site and this dude's site and set to work...
neither site shows a good representation of how the main spring strut should go into the pistol....
and since i'd never taken a CZ-82 (or any other pistol for that matter) apart, i threw it in the way i *thought* it went in...
assembled the entire thing to the point where it was time to add the main spring and plug... then realized i had it backwards.....
i suppose i could've looked at the diagram, but eh.... who wants to trust a drawing?
that's ok, the point of buying this thing was to get practice putting it together and taking it apart!!
the auto-safety/sear spring part of the instructions are played up as being challenging and very hard to do...
it wasn't that bad actually..... 1/8" punch and about 4 tries to figure out the move i needed to make and it was a snap....
THEN, i spent 45 minutes trying to get the slide stop and slide stop spring to behave....
one problem.....
the Slide Stop Spring that CZ-USA sells is for the new version of the CZ-83 *not* my SHE89 CZ-82
the spring is "L" shaped (see below)
Some google research showed that the short part of the "L" sits in a small hole drilled somewhere in the frame of the CZ-83, apparently the factory was retrofitting '83s a while ago for free because the old style spring was prone to disappearing, but they don't officially support the '82, so people were saying their attempts were fruitless...
i don't want to be shipping guns to K.C.,K. unless i *really* have to, so a google search for "CZ-82 Slide Stop Springs" brought up an oolldd forum post from this guy Norm Sutton down in florida who makes an updated version of the spring which should stay put.... i emailed him to make sure he was still alive and still making springs, he assured me he was (on both counts) and sent me an updated forum link:
http://olderthendirt.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=buy&action=display&thread=313&
$5 for the spring and shipping, he accepts PayPal, i ordered half a dozen....
*he also makes springs for the P64 and i'm sure some other stuff....
i also tried cutting down a large safety pin that i happened to have on the wife's desk... it was too thick to fit though.... i'm positive it would've worked and i would've loved to brag for the MacGuyver points...
Norm said he'd mail the springs today... so... the saga continues....
NOW I NEED GRIPS!!!!
my thought is to eventually refinish both of my CZ-82s, and stick wooden grips on one, probably carbon fiber or kevlar on the other..... for now i'd settle for factory stock beat up plastic grips as long as they were in one piece...
(hint to anyone out there who may have a spare set they're willing to part with)
also hopefully this thread will be indexed by google so anyone wondering why the L shaped slide stop spring they got from CZ-USA isn't working will see this and have any easier path to finding the right spring (or enough info to make their own)
*also heard a nasty rumor that CZ is stopping production on the '83....
we should probably order some spare internal parts......
ETA: more photos and words added in post 20 and later
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