AMT Automag III HAMMER STRUT

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   Did they by chance mention anything about sending me a sales commission check when you spoke with them? LOL

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AMT addict Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List International Auto Mag Joined: 05 Jan 2024 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 152	Post Options Post Reply Quote AMT addict Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Feb 2025 at 4:52pm
	Did they by chance mention anything about sending me a sales commission check when you spoke with them? LOL

OneWay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List International Auto Mag Joined: 06 Feb 2024 Location: North Idaho Status: Offline Points: 53	Post Options Post Reply Quote OneWay Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Feb 2025 at 5:20pm
	Said to give you a big hug... ...Not really but one would have to think they were following the thread, eh? Between Numrich and Interarms there are some key spare parts still available for the automag III and in my humble opinion they may soon be VERY (very) hard to come up with -if at all. So, along with a spare sear spring and a spare ejector from Interarms adding a couple $15 hammer struts to the order made the high shipping cost acceptable and a wise investment.
	The Older I Get The More "Keep It Simple Stupid" Means To Me "DENNY CRANE!"

AMT addict Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List International Auto Mag Joined: 05 Jan 2024 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 152	Post Options Post Reply Quote AMT addict Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Feb 2025 at 2:28am
	It never hurts to have some spare parts on hand for these aging guns. However you can easily get a lot of money invested in parts that you may never need. If you only knew the future. It is like when you look at the prices of an old parts price guide and think if only I could still buy up all of those parts for those prices. You could buy 10 springs for the price of one today. Spare mags for $25 new. Spare barrels, slides, frames.

OneWay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List International Auto Mag Joined: 06 Feb 2024 Location: North Idaho Status: Offline Points: 53	Post Options Post Reply Quote OneWay Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 12:16am
	Sad News about Interarms. Inc. (Ebay- Interarmstx) Hammer Strut for Automag III I just received two hammer struts designated for the automag III. I DO NOT KNOW if the Strut is the same or different from a automag II. (Aren't they specific to the III?) BUT- I can compare the strut currently installed (believed to be original) and the supplied replacement part. In my humble opinion it is a waste of money unless you are very desperate as it is not on a par with the factory Strut, even with its shortcomings. How so? First it is only .050 stock and the original is .075- meaning it is going to be more fragile and prone to bend than the already 'bend'-prone original was. Second it has a .135 hole and the original is .125 (sloppy pin fit) and lastly the top portion of the strut where the hole is is .375 long where the original is .450 (hammer spring tension changes). I would guess it would work.. maybe? But I'm not going to try it- sending it back as it was a poor attempt at making a replacement part. It does appear to be SS for what that's worth. Photo attached: The replacement is sitting squarely on top of the factory- sized part with the holes aligned..
	The Older I Get The More "Keep It Simple Stupid" Means To Me "DENNY CRANE!"

OneWay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List International Auto Mag Joined: 06 Feb 2024 Location: North Idaho Status: Offline Points: 53	Post Options Post Reply Quote OneWay Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 7:05pm
	UPDATE: Again, I an NOT any authority on AMT or the AutoMag III. I merely possess one and am the second owner. Any of the parts on it are presumed to be ORIGINAL as the first owner would probably not have had any local gunsmithing done- but the chance of me being mistaken exists. This morning I received a phone call from Alan at InterArms in response to my email reflecting my findings (noted in the above post). He explained to me that He had the original blueprints and that all of the AutoMags used the same Hammer Strut. Adding that they have sold hundreds of them and I am the first to complain. I questioned the .050 thickness and other dimensional variations from the Strut that was installed (and functioned) in my unit? Again he said it was made from original blue prints and that I should install it and try it- then IF it doesn't function correctly to contact him. Still questioning the thickness I was told "The part is hardened. He bought a large stock of parts that was found to be "half hard" that he had melted down. These parts are hardened and should stand up." I went on to explain that it wasn't the money that concerned me as much as it 'apparently' was not an AutoMag III part and was again told to install it and if it doesn't work to contact him. [email response prior to phone call] Alan Aronstein Tue, Feb 18 at 7:58 PM We bought the AMT Company Assets in 2006. Those parts are made to the Factory Prints. We have sold hundreds of them and produced AutoMag II Pistols with them with NO issues. I think that you should try them in your pistol. - Alan I may well be wrong and doing a lot of assumptions, but at this point I have no intentions of trying out a Strut that I "think" is for an AutoMag II in my AutoMag III, UNLESS I'm convinced otherwise first. IF I AM WRONG, MY APOLOGIES TO ALAN.
	The Older I Get The More "Keep It Simple Stupid" Means To Me "DENNY CRANE!"

jw4570 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Callahan's Auto Mag Joined: 08 Mar 2008 Location: FL Status: Offline Points: 1334	Post Options Post Reply Quote jw4570 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 10:32pm
	Alan is quite well known in the High Standard Pistol world and well respected. They did buy the parts from AMT (I think the last location was Sturgis). I just measured my Automag II and it's 0.050 wide. I didn't remove the hammer to look at the rest of it and I'm not going to. I've had mine before they bought the AMT parts so I know it's original AMT. I don't have an Automag III so I have no experience there. I will say mine misfired when I got it and found a bent hammer strut. I carefully bent mine back and it's been ok. Many people were not so lucky (they break). I may buy a couple from him for my Automag II because at least it appears correct for it. It comes from pulling the trigger with the slide off, the hammer overtravels and bends the stop. These guns (AM II) also have the stupid ejector you can just lose when you take the slide off. Don't ever take one apart at the range. Just adding information to this thread. However, you'd be surprised how well my Automag II shoots at 100 yards! Quite well. I had two of them and sold one. Wish I never had sold the other.

AMT addict Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List International Auto Mag Joined: 05 Jan 2024 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 152	Post Options Post Reply Quote AMT addict Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Feb 2025 at 4:18am
	My understanding is that interams is what is left of high standard arms. You only seem to hear bent hammer struts but i just realized that i need to take down all of my automag 2s and check all of them. Might be some of my inconsistency firing problems. Amt was never known for consistency so it makes you wonder if all of their hammer struts was the same. I didn't realize that there was some changes made. I bought one made by galena while still in california before they moved to south dakota. it wouldn't eject, 1st thing was they ejector was missing. ordered one, had to file on it to get it to fit in its home, then i had to do a bunch of filing on it and the slide because it was so tight the slide wouldn't go back. still had problems with stove pipes. the extractor felt sloppy so i ordered a new spring. well turns out the new spring wouldn't fit in the hole because it had a smaller hole and spring. i was nervous about drilling it out so i just came up with some other cut to length spring to use. point is that i thought galena just continued turning them out but it seems as they made some changes.

OneWay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List International Auto Mag Joined: 06 Feb 2024 Location: North Idaho Status: Offline Points: 53	Post Options Post Reply Quote OneWay Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Feb 2025 at 5:07pm
	Nice rendering of an AutoMag II (AMT-HOUSTON,TEXAS USA). Curious if there's any documentation of an AutoMag III, IV or V actually produced by 'InterArms Houston TX' under the name High Standard/AMT or whatever?
	The Older I Get The More "Keep It Simple Stupid" Means To Me "DENNY CRANE!"

AMT addict Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List International Auto Mag Joined: 05 Jan 2024 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 152	Post Options Post Reply Quote AMT addict Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Feb 2025 at 11:03pm
	Okay so this is what i am thinking. Oneway is correct that Interarms' hammer strut is not correct for the automag 3 4 and 5. Although i do believe that they are made off off the original blueprints of automag 2 as well as yes they did produce automags 2 with them. Now as far as will they work in the rest of the automags, i can't speak to that. I have a spare that came with a 30 carbine i bought and compared it to one i pulled out of a 2 and found same findings as oneway. Now, I think it would be a great question for Alan as to why did they only produce the 2 but no 3s 4s or 5s. Also why not still produce and sell amt's

OneWay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List International Auto Mag Joined: 06 Feb 2024 Location: North Idaho Status: Offline Points: 53	Post Options Post Reply Quote OneWay Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 2025 at 12:57am
	[Quote: AMT addict] "Now as far as will they work in the rest of the automags, i can't speak to that." Well Andy, neither can I with any certainty but you are spot on with my thoughts. The post I made back on February 19 was to that point. I got a brief email response from Alan then later, not realizing I was the same person, he called me. After I told him it wasn't the same as the one in my AutoMag III, I was told that I was the first to 'complain' about his hammer strut. He went on to say, "that I must have the wrong part in my gun. He makes the part from the 'Factory Prints' and THEY ARE CORRECT. We have built hundreds of guns with them and repaired III's, IV's, and V's with them and they functioned correctly." When I tried to press him further about the difference in size and a .025 thinner stock with a larger pin hole he become defensive and insisted the part was correct for a III, concluding with "just install it and try it, then get back to me if you have any problems". So, even though "the man" says they are all the same and I can not argue with any certanty (only my common sense) I just decided to give the struts to people with II's, which I believe they are correct for, and move on Nuff Said..
	The Older I Get The More "Keep It Simple Stupid" Means To Me "DENNY CRANE!"

AMT Automag III HAMMER STRUT

We bought the AMT Company Assets in 2006. Those parts are made to the Factory Prints. We have sold hundreds of them and produced AutoMag II Pistols with them with NO issues. I think that you should try them in your pistol. - Alan