AMT Automag III HAMMER STRUT

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	Good day all.


	I want/need to fabricate a hammer strut for my Automag III.  These are 
notorious for bending the struts and are extremely hard to find 
replacements for nowadays.


	I was going to post a picture but the url would be to a commercial 
business so not doing that.  It is a simple stem (.075) square on .075 
sheet stock, with a flat spade about half it's length and a .125 hole in
 it- not much to its shape or fabrication.


	Can someone enlighten me as to a material that would be best to make it
 from to resist the stem bending and the hammer link pin wear? Needs to 
be tough and resistant. Maybe 4130 Chromoly?


	Heat treating with a torch will be a challenge as the "stem" is about 3
 times smaller than the spade/hole end and difficult to uniformly 
heat-treat. The design bugaboo is where the stem meets and is the point 
of bending (failure). 

	It is a pretty straight forward piece and with the correct thickness of
 the proper material, it shouldn't be too hard of a project.  Even laser
 cutting or EDM may be viable.  After all AMT (apparently) did not do a 
particularly stellar job of manufacturing the part. 


	The Automag III in .30 carbine is a great piece, but there were a couple things that engineers could have been done better.


	Thanks kindly, much appreciated