Unbeknownst to the customer in Part 1, the Winchester had a badly worn firing pin and would not have fired, if he had tried. I will be using my answers from Part 1 to respond to the following prompts.
Diagnosing an unreported malfunction:
1.At what point in the previous section did you perform a test-fire and why did you do so if it
was not brought to you for a failure to fire? If you did not perform a test-fire in the previous
section, do you believe that you should have?
At no point in my previous assessment did I perform a test fire of the customer’s rifle. Because the initial complaint was about feeding issues and not firing issues it was not necessary to fix the issue that was addressed. I stand firm in my not testing the firearms ability to fire initially however, if firing was addressed the first time, I would have done things with more focus on the firing pin and the rifles hammer and hammer spring as well.
2.Based on your answer to “Post-inspection and repairs”, Question 2, would you have
discovered the worn firing pin during your diagnosis of the worn lever?
No I would not have discovered the issue with the worn firing pin when focusing on the feeding, chambering, locking, unlocking, extracting, or ejecting parts of the cycle of operation. The initial complaint was about cycling not firing the rifle.
3.If the firing pin in this firearm needed replacement, where might you find a replacement and how much would this component cost?
The part would cost $36.75 on homesteadparts.com.
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