Daystate Delta/Alpha Wolf PSA

[scotton]

Do not move the trigger all the way back! I was adjusting the position of my trigger and I moved it to the end of the adjustment range towards the butt. The trigger apparently won't work in that position. Then I went to move the trigger forward and the tiny screw stripped out. It appears that the bar that the trigger slides on is narrower towards the back and it locked the screw up.
So now I have a gun that won't shoot and a screw that won't budge the day before a match. Not sure what I'm going to do. So don't do what I did.
I guess I'll go look for a tiny reverse drill bit tomorrow and maybe I'll be up and running next week.

 

[Stubbers]

Do not move the trigger all the way back! I was adjusting the position of my trigger and I moved it to the end of the adjustment range towards the butt. The trigger apparently won't work in that position. Then I went to move the trigger forward and the tiny screw stripped out. It appears that the bar that the trigger slides on is narrower towards the back and it locked the screw up.
So now I have a gun that won't shoot and a screw that won't budge the day before a match. Not sure what I'm going to do. So don't do what I did.
I guess I'll go look for a tiny reverse drill bit tomorrow and maybe I'll be up and running next week.

Reverse drill bit, and re-tap for a size up? Sucks you learned the hard way, c'est la vie!

Harbor freight carries them if you have one nearby for about 12$.

-Matt

 

[scotton]

I don't think sizing up will be an option. I think I'll wind up cutting it off an ordering a new trigger.

 

[scotton]

Well, I got it working but in the process the safety spring snapped off. That means you can't wake up the gun by flipping the safety off and on or unlock the control panel. Short term fix, I hooked it up to the programmer and set the time out to an hour. I threw a little phone charger battery in my shooting box that I can use to wake the gun up. So I'm good to go for tomorrow (except for the inability to change any settings, but I've been using the same setting for 2 weeks so it should be ok) and I'll order a new trigger on Monday.

An addendum to the PSA: Be very careful when removing the trigger from the block. The safety spring is held on by two very thin plastic ears that will break if you look at them funny. And when removing and replacing the trigger, go ahead and take off the top rail to give yourself a little slack in the wires. It will make your life much easier.

 

[MysticalDragon]

Well, I got it working but in the process the safety spring snapped off. That means you can't wake up the gun by flipping the safety off and on or unlock the control panel. Short term fix, I hooked it up to the programmer and set the time out to an hour. I threw a little phone charger battery in my shooting box that I can use to wake the gun up. So I'm good to go for tomorrow (except for the inability to change any settings, but I've been using the same setting for 2 weeks so it should be ok) and I'll order a new trigger on Monday.

An addendum to the PSA: Be very careful when removing the trigger from the block. The safety spring is held on by two very thin plastic ears that will break if you look at them funny. And when removing and replacing the trigger, go ahead and take off the top rail to give yourself a little slack in the wires. It will make your life much easier.

Good luck in the match. That had to be a sick feeling. I knew I had it for you when you first posted about this. At least you got it going.

Thanks also for sharing the info for others. I hope it will help them. Also loved hearing that you can change the timeout. I might call aoa and ask them to set this on the rw I have on order. I had several mention they wouldnt get an rw because they often saw people lining up for a field target shot only to see their screen go dark when the gun went to sleep. I had wondered if there was a way to change the sleep timeout. It always seemed that the default was far too quick.

 

[scotton]

Well, happy ending. After I shot the match and got home, I decided to take the trigger apart again to see if I could just replace the safety rather than the whole trigger assembly. Once I got the safety out of the trigger, I realized that the little metal bar on the safety just sits in a groove, it doesn't really lock in like I thought it should. So I got every thing back together and it is now back to 100% (except for the trigger screw still being stripped, but I can live with that until I get a new one). So the final moral to this story is this: Don't try to fix a complicated machine when you are tired, frustrated and in a hurry.

 

[MysticalDragon]

Well, happy ending. After I shot the match and got home, I decided to take the trigger apart again to see if I could just replace the safety rather than the whole trigger assembly. Once I got the safety out of the trigger, I realized that the little metal bar on the safety just sits in a groove, it doesn't really lock in like I thought it should. So I got every thing back together and it is now back to 100% (except for the trigger screw still being stripped, but I can live with that until I get a new one). So the final moral to this story is this: Don't try to fix a complicated machine when you are tired, frustrated and in a hurry.

Great news. How did you do in the match? Did you have a good time?

 

[scotton]

Not as good as I hoped but better than expected. Off-hand went poorly and I didn't trust the scope a couple of times when I should have. And I didn't stop and reset on a couple of targets when I wasn't feeling it. On the other hand, the gun bailed me out a couple of times on poor shots.
But it was a good time and some great BBQ afterwards. OKC puts on a good match, worth the 3.5 hour drive.