[Mr. X]

While I felt disinclined to dismantled the new RA trigger mech, I did want to see what might be wrong with the old one. It proved surprisingly easy to dismantle the cassette & re-assemble. I don't think I would encourage folk to do this but I thought you might find it interesting to see what's the inside of the old mech. looks like [see below].

There is actually nothing visibly wrong with any of the parts shown. The seer had some cosmetic rusting in two areas and some mild wear where the spear engages but nothing significant enough to cause any failure. Discussing with RA, it sounds like the fibre reinforced plastic in the original probably became worn and fluffy (due to release of fibres from the plastic surface) as I had encountered particularly gritty water conditions on several occasions last year (on one occasion finding 4 mini pebbles drop out of the trigger mech., several days after what I thought was a thorough cleaning, when I gave the gun a good shake).

The issues I encountered were:
- difficulty loading the spear into the mech. sometimes (this was I think due to the line release not dropping back into place due to fluffing).
- occasional release of spear while loading (again probably due to parts not slipping back into place properly due to fluffing)
- safety usually stuck (ditto) BTW push down, against the spring, when changing the safety position - this will unlock the slider at the back.

[Note: this "fluffing" is not visible].