If you remove the grip panel you can take the safety lever out of the frame with any tools or further disassembly. Simply rotate it and lift out. You might be able to see a way to tighten it by bending, but I'd be very careful not to break it.

 

Thanks for the 'secret' to remove the lever. I'm assuming that it needs to be rotated down to line it up with a slot to pull it out. That means while assembled the grip prevents it from rolling down, allowing it to fall out.

Yep, sure don't want to damage this part.

 

IMHO I would leave it be. Breaking it would really devalue the pistol as these early ones even the safety was numbered to the pistol.

 

That’s what I’m doing with my “squareback” T-94. The safety tends to fall off. I’m surprised that it hasn’t been lost by now. It’s a really nice piece otherwise with two matching magazines.
Do no harm

 

I agree with all of the previous comments. It is very easy to break the back side of the safety.

 

Does anyone have some pictures showing the shape of this part (out of the pistol)?

Thanks.

 

Hello. I have removed many of the safeties on Showa 10 date to about Showa 14 dated pistols that have the straw-colored safety and the last two digits of the serial number stamped on them. (I am not exactly sure when the two-digits stopped being applied but I think it was around early in the Showa 14 date as per my limited observations.) There have been a few safeties that no matter how hard I tried, I could not remove. If my memory serves me correctly, a very knowledgeable Japanese pistol collector once told me years ago that sometimes the position of the hammer can aid in the removal but I don't remember if it was is the cocked position or forward (fired) position. Someone else on this forum may be able to provide better information than what I have said.

 

Here are some photos of a safety removed from a pistol. Note the protrusion that is the key to keeping the safety in the pistol when it is pointing in is "fire" position: toward 9 o'clock. To remove rotate it down so the safety points toward the 6 o'clock position.

 

Just buy a new safety. That part is notorious for breaking and I would be worried about trying to bend it into shape.

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I like shooting my 94 a lot more than Type 14. It will cycle about any ammo but my 14 won't cycle any light loads.

 

That's for sure. The last "factory" ammo that I bought won't work in the Type 14 but will in the Type 94. My hotter reloads work perfectly in all my Nambu's though.

 

One ammo I would like to try is Midway 8mm Nambu. I remember when they first started loading 8 mm Nambu, but at the time I wasn't into Japanese pistols so I didn't buy any. Now it's priced like collector ammo. The only ammo I found that cycled my type 14 was Shooters X it was loaded with 102 gr bullets. I am not sure where to find it now.