[applejackson]

I will second Red7's request for instruction on how to polish the striker pin.
How is that done exactly? Do you use a bench grinder with a cloth wheel or something like that? Do you use a specific kind of polish or compound? Is it just the striker pin or the the rest of the assembly?
I pulled mine out, pulled it apart, cleaned it up real nice, did not add any oil, put it back in dry and that smoothed the trigger out some, but based on reading this I have to think that there is more to be had.
Just looking for some guidance/explanation on how and what exactly is getting polished.

 

[applejackson]

to anyone who is about to pull the striker assembly apart for the first time:

Make sure you are working in an appropriate area. Meaning, NOT in the basement near the floor drain where HYPOTHETICALLY on reassembly, a delicate and spring-loaded mechanism could slip fr om your fingers, sending TINY AND FRAGILE parts flying to all reaches of your basement and to the floor drain, where you had one in a million luck and got SUPER LUCKY and recovered the 1/2 of the collar that was about to go down the drain and be lost forever.

Not that that happened to me or anything....

 

[applejackson]

I dismantled my striker as per the guide listed earlier. ...

Thank you, ewigeSchlangenkraft. That is exactly the level of detail i was hoping to get. Appreciate it and glad it worked out for you.