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Make sure you tell the guy that you 'know' it is misaligned , and therefore a factory defect in workmanship. If he thinks he can bamboozle you with that baloney about the micarta typically being that...

Went to Gimp image editor. Here is the problem, pinned on a skew, IOW, misaligned ;

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How about a photo of the pivot end looking down to see if the pin is misaligned, as Neil described. I bet it is. When I first read your post, before the photos , it occurred to me that I am always...