Looks Good,,another one saved!
If there's any trick to the assembly of the trigger plate and battling that heavy top lever spring using the punch and V slotted screw driver method,,it's that you have the handle of the screw driver against your stomach and use that to push with.
That leaves both your hands completely free.
The trigger plate should be screwed down at both ends enough to give it some 'bowed' tension against the top lever spindle.
The spindle will then snap into it's hole when in place.
You are totally in control, no shaking wrists fighting heavy springs. No extra holes in the wood. Takes seconds to do.
This is the way it was done at the orig factory and at Marlin when they produced the LCS. The latter is where I was shown how in the early 70's in the Repair Shop.
