I screwed up a trigger pin hole- a fix?

[Trboatworks]

Ok I’m an idiot.
I picked up a Cylinder & Slide trigger for my BHP and installed it.
The trigger came with a very slightly undersize pivot hole and as I was reaming it to size I went very slightly oversized.
It’s not more in fact than the fit on the original trigger which was in the gun but it gripes me that I was distracted while doing the work and overshot the fit.

Is there any reasonable fix?
-I could buy a new trigger and try it again.
-Leave well enough alone as it all functions fine.
-Peen the trigger to tighten up the fit on pin.
-Do some sort of plating to close up the fit.
-Get a larger pin/ream frame to tighten up things. (Really reluctant with this one..).

****Leave well enough alone****

I really get put out by these minute misses when I am doing work so I would like to recover but…
I am not seeing a simple fix here.


Thanks

 

[memphisjed]

Make new trigger with some engravings for fun.

 

[Trboatworks]

Fun he says….

 

[SScott]

If you feel slop in it, fix it, if not then I would not mess with it. Peening it will work, I don't see any serious stress points on that. The proper way would be to indicate and measure then tig weld and redo or go up a size on the pin imho

 

[Scottl]

have you measured the hole size vs the pin so you know how much "tightening" is needed?

There might even be a Loctite product that could be used to add a few thousandths to the holes and would wear well.

Another solution might be Tix low temperature solder which would not draw the temper of the hardened surfaces.

 

[Trboatworks]

I’m headed to the shop- I will grab the gear to measure this.
I think the factory pin is .117”

 

[HWooldridge]

+ 1 for peening over the edge of the holes. A slight reduction in the material thickness around the hole from the displacement won't hurt anything.

 

[mhajicek]

Yep, set a ball bearing on the hole and tap it with a hammer.

 

[Trboatworks]

OK..
So the trigger pin on this Browning Hi Power is .1182"
The specification for that pin is .117" so no doubt the Cylinder & Slide trigger was reamed for the OEM pin.

This gun is one of the Israeli military buy-backs and it is my understanding that these guns have a number of build requests to FN which make them a bit of an oddball.
This is a mid eighties type II BHP.

So I reamed the trigger pivot hole to .12" so I am .0018" oversized on the hole.
Not much eh but on this small bore it tosses the nice slip fit to the wind but... is exactly the clearance in the original trigger pin of this pretty much unfired gun.

So worth messing with it to close up that clearance a bit?
What size ball bearing is used on a hole this size?

 

[HWooldridge]

Most any size bearing that will sit on the hole without rolling off. 3/8" to 1/2" will likely work fine.

 

[GGaskill]

Use a spacer inside to prevent narrowing the space.