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After moving my single trigger rearward for a much lighter pull, it is still too heavy. I have done much polishing on all parts relevant and still too heavy. My question is could I swap it out for a single SET trigger and be able to adjust to a very light pull which I prefer?
 
I put a Davis double action single set trigger on my last gun, and it was really a bugger to get just right.

With a set trigger, you generally want the blade pivot pin further away from the sear bar, so as to have a higher velocity with the blade when it contacts the bar. With a simple pivot trigger, you want it closer to lessen the force necessary to trip it.

When I installed the DASST, I made a jig to experiment and figure out where to place it. I placed it so that I had 100% reliability with the set trigger, and close enough to make the simple trigger as light as possible. If you are doing a set trigger only, you have much more flexibility.

DASST Jig 2.jpg
 
Love the jig col. I am going with a single set trigger from TOW. As the pistol is finished it should be "fun" getting it fitted.
 
The Davis DASST trigger came from TotW. My major complaint with it was that the blades were fairly thin, and, the holes (through the blades and trigger itself) for the pivot pin was larger than the pivot pin diameter, which resulted in a rattly trigger (side to side).. My remedy for that was to buy a numbered wire drill bit, and drill out the plate hole, and trigger and blade holes. Then snap off the shank of the bit, using that as my pivot pin. It wasn't a perfect solution,---it's still a bit rattly--- but it's better than it was.

I've learned to get used to it though, as, when it's loaded up and ready for the break, it doesn't wiggle during the break itself. It's almost a 2-stage sort of thing.

The other issue with that Davis unit was that the trigger plate was very very thick, and wasn't easily bent to conform to my stock profile. If you bend it too far, the catch hook won't engage the set trigger blade. A lot of that (too shallow of a sweep to the TP profile) could be modified and remedied with judicious filing, but it was a major major pain to get it all working correctly. It also necessitated a change to the trigger guard bow shape to accommodate the forward sweep of the trigger during the set process.

There are plain SST's out there with no primary pull feature. That is, the trigger can ONLY be fired when it is set.

If I had to do it all over again I would either use one of those, or go the simple hinged trigger route instead. By my guess, I probably had 12-16 hours worth of brain wracking in to that whole installation and modification--as well as the pucker factor) , and a simple hinged trigger would only be a couple at best, and could be done while maintaining normal blood pressure.
 
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