"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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I have been slowly retrofitting an old Westerfield thotgun, and in the
process I put to much strain on the trigger pivot pin and broke into 3
pieces. It looks like brass to me. The raw surfaces are very shiny like
brass, and have no hint of the pastiness I sometimes see in bronze. It
measures at about .090 as near as I can measure a twisted broken pin part
about an 1/8 inch long. I can't find any bronze that small, and the
nearest brass piece I can find from McMaster is 3/32 (0.09375). It looks
like the only answer I am going to have is to polish down a piece of 3/32
brass rod. The trigger is a pretty integral part of this mechanism with a
simple hook that holds back the firing pin when you close the bolt, so I am
trying to decide which alloy is going to give the best life for this
application. The gun is over 60 years old, so whatever the original pin
was it did a pretty good job.




Original pin would not have been bronze. It would have been steel.
Most likely a rebadged Mossberg. My books list a couple of trigger pins in
that size range .095 and .093.

Paul K. Dickman