Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-30049823-20190903022423

Okay, I took some pictures to ask a question, since this blue Zeus was DOA and I'd opened it up and tracked the circuit failure to the switch for the combination unjam door and mag inserted safety. (which I call the "lock box" since it has its own cover and contains TWO locks)

Basically, it didn't seem to be working as intended, but I couldn't find any broken pieces, nor was I able to figure out how it was supposed to work (almost seemed like a missing spring, but still, with the mag detector pushed in and the jam door detector pushed up, it STILL wasn't fully engaging the switch.

So I shrugged and wrapped a twist tie around the switch to force it to be always engaged.

Unfortunately, during the course of reassembling, I managed to break the fragile little arm that extends from the unjam door and actually pushes the lock up (which, as it turns out, needs to happen ANYWAY because even with the switch perma-engaged, that same lock tooth prevents the trigger from being pulled).



So I just stuffed the broken piece of unjam-door under the lock to keep it held open and let the trigger move, and put the cover back on the "lock box" so the loose piece can't go anywhere.

Not my best work, but hey, it's a usable blaster now and wasn't before. I normally try to keep all the locks in place, though, so I'm curious how the internals of that "lock box" were SUPPOSED to work, if anyone else has had theirs apart and can shed some light... 