MIM? For a grip safety? You'll shoot yer eye out! Seriously, they cause cancer (in California) and have been known to spontaneously combust so careful with that welder! Not sure how well it will hold up under all those ounces of pressure.

Oh, and good for you on taking initiative, I tried that once, what I lacked was skill and knowledge. Welders have all the fun!

 

Funny! Ounces of force, the pressure is still 1/40th that of the minimum compressive yield strength, if you can pull 20 pounds on the trigger:biglaugh:

For the welding, it is a Miller Dynasty 200 DX. Using 0.040" tungsten, DCEN with 12 CFH argon. Air cooled torch with fingertip contact/current control. Other gunsmithing jobs have been extractor rebuilding when parts cannot be found and welding a Remington M24 cracked receiver (both .22 rimfire).

This is the machine for gunsmithing, hands down.

 

What to do when a grip safety horn is too short?

For those of us without tig welders, that little arm can be stretched to length with careful, gentle peening using the flat face of a small ball-peen hammer and a flat iron/steel backing surface .
Dress and refit...

 

Peening and welding are both good options. Peening a MIM part can go badly due to being brittle so welding was probably the better option.

Nice save.

 

Keith J,

On my P14-45 I had to have the grip safety tangs welded to add material.

 

Nice looking grip safety fit but we are talking about the blocking arm being short causing the safety to not work, not gap or fit on the frame.

 

Yes, just the nose. Very easy to see on wide-body Paras with the right grip removed, exposing the nose to trigger bow gap. But remove the GS to weld .

Just got back from range testing and no malfunctions. Felt good with the lower hand hold but still don't know if I like this one.

 

Sorry about that. I had a Springfield that I peened using a babbit block and cape chisel. If still too short yes I agree weld it up.