Marlin Cross Bolt Safety Replacement

[COSteve]

There's a guy on AR15.com who made a nice looking stainless steel replacement 'screw' for his Marlin. He's offered to make some for other people. You Marlin owners might want to take a look at THIS thread.

[muddydog]

what you did there.
I seen it.

he'll make 87 of them.

[Sarge]

That is definitely an improvement. I swapped into a button-holed 336 years ago for one of the boys; I was forever getting a CLANK instead of a BANG because my Old Dog Brain refused to acknowledge that dayum little button- where none had existed in my previous 20 years of levergun activities.

I might have to start seriously shopping for a 1895, now

[kimwcook]

Steve, this one's been here a long time. It's in the "One Sticky".

http://www.leverguns.com/articles/taylo ... safety.htm

Looks like the guy did a good job.

[COSteve]

Yep, I saw that and it's mentioned in the post but this guy's is stainless steel.

[Warhawk]

Many thanks Steve

[Ysabel Kid]

Guess I'm lucky. Three Marlin leveractions; no safeties!!!

[fordwannabe]

Three ...slacker! But some of mine have safties. Tom

[KCSO]

When I first did this and wrote it up for NCOWS I received HATE mail about removing a safety feature. I was threatened with law suits and denounced soundly. I won't even share my secret for doing this for less than $5.

[Mutt]

I bought from C. Ludwig . Works very good. Easy to install , comes with proper tool . and instructions. ,,,,,,,,, For MANY YEARS the SAFETY was the first notch back of the hammer ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Mutt

[J Miller]

What I want is a safety replacement I can use in my color cased Marlin 1894. One that does NOT have the screw slot in the right side, but DOES fit flush with both sides.

The Ludwig one I have sits .020" below flush on the right side and the screw slot makes it look busy.

Why everybody insists on the slots is beyond me.

KCSO, you can PM me your $5.00 secret. I won't tell

Joe