Sticky Edgun .25 Long Trigger…
A tip if you are having a bit of trouble with the Edgun trigger not returning to the full forward position after being fired.
Mine was not returning to full front position after each shot. This would sometimes prevent the bolt from cocking. Now, the trigger was set to perfection on first and second stage. After examining it, I found the trigger is held in one place by a pin that goes through a brass washer on each side of the trigger, with the trigger wedged in between.
One of the brass washers had gotten “corroded” somehow, and the trigger was being held back by friction.
The fix was easy. Knocked out the pin, the trigger and both washers dropped out. They don’t attach to anything, just three separate pieces. I took my dremel and polished the sides of the trigger where it met the brass washers. Then I polished the brass washers, both sides. Reinstalled everything and the trigger still stuck in the fired position.
So…I took the assembly apart and dremeled (ground) both of the brass washers lightly on one side, the rough side, probably removed 1000th of an inch total. Siliconed them, stuck them in place, popped in the trigger and in went the pin.
Now the trigger moves back into firing position/cocking position without any problems at all. It was simply too tight between the two brass washers. It didn’t take much to fix it, and there is NO way you can go wrong because the three pieces and one pin don’t attached to anything, just each other.
It’s a small triumph, but a hard one to find. It was one of several trigger adjustments made to this gun. Two owners before me, and they really screwed the trigger adjustment up bad. Now it shoots as good…better in fact…than any New Edgun I’ve owned.
This might help someone if they happen to be having fine detail adjustment problems with the trigger assembly/linkage. One of many problems that can take place but are not readily identifiable. This also indicates the necessity to occasionally lube the trigger retention pin and washers…those brass washers corrode.
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You told me before I bought it, that your New Jersey “cousin” most likely stole it…and that’s why I could get it for cheap!
And I quote you: “My cousin is so crooked, when he dies, they’ll have to screw his ass into the ground!”
No I didn’t….never did! It was never there.
Kindest regards,
Uncle H 😯 😯 t
I’ve got the exact same problem currently, and have my trigger assembly apart. My gun has white plastic washers on each side of the trigger rather than brass washers. I have removed the pin and I’ve got some of that pink looking goo that apparently Ed puts on the two trigger adjustment screws to keep them from moving that ran into the trigger pin assembly which has gummed up the entire works. I haven’t gotten around to reassemble it yet to see if that’s taken care of the problem.
Did you really create this post at 3:46am? I thought I had bad habits. 😀
Hoot
It was Obama and Nancy Pelosi that screwed up that trigger washer! They’ve pissed on everything else in my life…why not my gun?
Hoot
HOOT, I didn’t remove the trigger and polish the washers when I worked on your Matador. The trigger moved freely when I had the gun and I didn’t think that it needed any polishing.
My bad!
I also didn’t waterproof your package when I sent it UPS back to you.
I should have realized that UPS meant Underwater Package Shipping during the final leg of its journey to your hovel on the hill on the other side of Toad Suck Lake!
Next time; PLEASE specify that the row boat delivery man have your package IN the boat instead of dragging it along behind by rope!
It had to be either the underwater delivery that corroded the brass washers OR; you loved the tuned trigger SO much that you slept with the Matador and had a nocturnal emission (probably the first in 20-30 years) that gummed the trigger up.
You should now be safe sleeping with the Matador, last nights NE will probably be the last one that will ever plague you. Just to be safe, you could always wear your red depends to bed every night.
PS: I found it SACRILEGIOUS and also very disturbing that you would enclose a Matador in a Cricket box!
Some people just don’t have any fetchins up! 😯
Hey hey hey watch your mouth hoot..my cousin didn’t even open the gun up so you can thank the first owner for the trigger adjustment…lol….sorry slayer for throwing you under the bus.
It’s not “a small triumph”, but big improvement and much safer. :8: :8: :8:
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Perhaps once they are “clean” you won’t get bound up…with them being plastic. However, there is precious little clearance between the trigger and those washers. If it still doesn’t move back and forth freely, you can dremel a tiny bit off the washers, and/or buff or polish the sides of the trigger where the washers meet. Don’t remove much at all. No need to end up with “slop” in the trigger moving sideways. It only takes about a 1000th of an inch to make the diff.
Good luck, and if you haven’t, be sure to watch Ernest Rowe’s Youtube “adjusting the Edgun trigger”. He makes it look so easy! Also, see Old Goat’s post up above. Tiny tricks make it all come together.