I tore the ClapperStorm (Thunder + FireStorm = ClapperStorm?) all the way down to its ill-machined bones.
Lets pause and find it a name:
- The Bersa Firestorm
- The California Thunder
- The CA-Blunder
- The Thunder-Clapper
- The Clapper-Storm
- The Thunder-Fail
- The Thunder-Blunder
- The Fire-Clapper
- …..
I mean, the thing is so ugly… that AFAICT it didn’t even earn a 15min update to the manual! You can’t even download documentation that references it !!?!$@@&. Nothing makes a man feel more confident…. Than tearing down a complex and fussy assembly… that sets off explosives in your hand… Based on the blow up diagram of a different model!
grrr…..
So with the Hammer Pin seat “adjusted”, I can finally get this thing apart to pressure-wash the booLit-goop and mud-dust out of it.
I Don’t own all the correct tools yet, so I just go after it like a savage. I don’t have gunsmith screwdrivers, sets of cool rods, stiff little brushes, or any of that crap. I have what I have and try what I have to.
I know… That this time around… I can eliminate almost all of the variables associated with oiling, cleaning, etc. In the video below I am caught using a 15-year-old bottle of bore cleaner and half of a patch to absolutely scour the inside of the firing pin chamber.
I of course get it stuck in there. Compacted into a tightwad. When you make that mistake it’s harder to remove than you might think. It begs to get scratched up, deformed, gouged….
Anyway… I’m just sitting here trying to figure out what changed in my WordPress install. Lots of new features, but I don’t think I really like the blocks format
… Next up is reassembly and testing
-Schindler