Does anyone have any information about a safety designed by H. E. Anderson for mausers? I have only one internet tidbit, an old ad from google docs. I do have part of the mechanism but it obviously is incomplete. I find attaching pics here to be prehistoric.

Well I'm a prehistoric dinosaur and I can attach pictures here or on other forums at will.

As they say pictures say a thousand words. Never heard of an Anderson safety for Mausers but a picture may jog memories.

Never heard of it.

Copperlake,

Since it appears H.E. Anderson is still in business, you might try calling them. You'll maybe get stonewalled since it's not in their current focus of water-treatment/valving. But maybe you'll find somebody willing to look for you.

I've received a couple of PM's one of which said they'd post the pics which I will do. One of them is a screengrab off googdocs from a newspaper years ago. I have been off and on noodling something similar for years. I prefer a two-staged trigger for hunting and wish I had a mauser trigger on my Weatherby.....

Also, my apologies it's H. B. Anderson, not H. E.

Copperlakes pics.....



Roger

wow! I mean what can I say a picture is worth a 1000 words...

I can understand how it works but I'm obviously missing a part that fits in the stub with a hole. It must have, I think, something to do with controlling movement.

Tip-o-the-hat for help with pics! Why do pics need a web address?

I imagine it was probably a spring and detent of some sort.

I get the concept now too. But that ad pre-dates 1963; no zip code, and the abbreviation for Washington is Wn.
However, that is going to make your wrist weaker, and do you need to inlet a steel bar for it to sit/slide on?

dpcd yes, that's how I see it. That bar inlets further into the relief notch in the action that allows a square cut to be made for the back of the magazine box. If my benefactor is willing, I'll send him a pic of it against a 98. How it is stabilized is a mystery to me. I like the idea that the boss with a hole is some sort of detent but its location puzzles me. As I said, I've been working on my own similar thing for years (did I say that here or there?). Mine as the current has a bit of milling to form a plumb surface for things to run on and I'm looking at water jet in phosphor bronze for the parts because of 'spring'. Just another rabbit hole for retired tinker to go down...

I think an extended tang would be necessary to both stabilize it and look cleanly done. Maybe?

looks like a ball detent. I guess it presses against the underside of the tang to tension the mechanism? The parts have the appearance of a shotgun safety button paired with parts of a slide action bar assy.

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Originally posted by copperlake:
I can understand how it works but I'm obviously missing a part that fits in the stub with a hole. It must have, I think, something to do with controlling movement.

Tip-o-the-hat for help with pics! Why do pics need a web address?

I did this for myself.. mostly