Browning Hi Power P35 Safety Catch

[Coehorn]

Is the small square tab on the shaft a retainer that fits into a slot on the frame?

If so, check the area/small gap between the tab and the circular boss on the safety.

If she's rubbing, she'll leave marks. Break out a magnifying glass and look closely.

Good luck with her.

 

[Browning Fan]

I’m a diesel, hydraulic and heavy duty auto trans tech of 38 years so I’m good with working with tight tolerance, just seems odd to me. They were nit building ultra finely fitted parts and on that line.
I have crocus cloth strips, bazillion Dremel bits and rouge polishing crème.

 

[Browning Fan]

Is the small square tab on the shaft a retainer that fits into a slot on the frame?

If so, check the area/small gap between the tab and the circular boss on the safety.

If she's rubbing, she'll leave marks. Break out a magnifying glass and look closely.

Good luck with her.

Negitive,Square key on shaft pictured here, goes through keyway in extractor plate. Plate must be pointing down when inserting. Once seated, it rotates up.
If I try to fit even without plate, she tightens up.

 

[Browning Fan]

Pictured here are both sides of ejector plate.

 

[Browning Fan]

Getting there.. Slow going polishing.

 

[smdub]

Why not weld the original back up?

 

[Browning Fan]

Why not weld the original back up?

Making the tit out of weld would be EXTREMELY ambitious. Removing a tiny bit of metal by way of polishing is far far less labor intensive and way way less time consuming.

 

[smdub]

You'd just tig a little spot to it and grind it back to shape.

 

[wabbit]

Top right is original with broken off slide lock.
Top left is the Canadian.
Bottom is the one from SARCO. View attachment 464250

I have a FM Hi-Power that was made under license in Argentina. The part on mine looks like the one on the upper left, but with a smaller serrated section. It's not as small as on the part on the upper right, but seems to be half way between the two. It might be possible to fit a FM Hi-Power slide release on your P-35, if you come across a FM Hi-Power.
Other than that, I don't know where you could find a replacement part that is an exact fit. I think that old guns like your P-35 would need to have parts made or modified to work.

 

[Browning Fan]

I have a FM Hi-Power that was made under license in Argentina. The part on mine looks like the one on the upper left, but with a smaller serrated section. It's not as small as on the part on the upper right, but seems to be half way between the two. It might be possible to fit a FM Hi-Power slide release on your P-35, if you come across a FM Hi-Power.
Other than that, I don't know where you could find a replacement part that is an exact fit. I think that old guns like your P-35 would need to have parts made or modified to work.

In hindsite, I THINK, another diffence in them with the barrel that blocks the sear, that little half moon cut out of the barrel’s profile allows the safety to be engaged when not cocked? Some do not have that. I don’t know, it’s together and put away. There are differences in age ( mine ‘42 if memory serves correctly), even in early P35s plus maybe company and country.