'Hamish' - Wow!

1. Somebody must have taken your Safety-Lever apart and reassembled it incorrectly.

Or:

2. Somebody put tremendous force on the lever and stripped the corners off the 'pentagon' shaped end of the shaft. (Unlikely)

As you can see, the lever was fitted on to a 'pentagon' shaped shaft, the shaft-end was 'peened' to lock the parts together, and the parts were 'dressed' to hide the connection.

This sub-assembly (Safety-Lever) was not intended to be taken apart.

(p.s. - You can shoot your Krag at the Range without the Safety. I would advise simply replacing your 'messed up' Safety. The part shows up on ebay or you can try the vendors in the KCA 'Classifieds').

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