brass cracking on me

[Vaino]

I noticed in the pic of the cracked TG that the width edge was flat yielding a sharp corner....a nick in that sharp corner could cause a stress point and a crack could originate from the nick. A radius would eliminate this......Fred

 

[Hoyt]

Could be that would help..that guard is the one I got to replace the one I broke actually trying to shape. I didn't put enough pressure on the one in picture to break a kitchen match.
I just placed it on the stock to see how much I was going to have to bend it and after I placed the front tab into the inlet and the rear tab over the rear inlet I noticed it was cracked. I was actually just taking a look to decide if I was going attempt to bend it to fit just in case the one coming from Goering won't work with the inlets. There's a good chance now I'm going to have to get another trigger or longer trigger bar..or cut the tabs off the Goering and silver solder to fit inlets and I can't silver solder.
Oh Well..at least everything is going along normaly.