Old_Me
Ronin
hey, my buddy at the range has a 1911, it is an S/A 5", g'ment, and his spent shell casings were not being extracted properly a good number of times. (stove piping, dropping them to the ground, etc)
he asked me, if i knew how to fix this, i looked and could see where the extractor (internal by the way) was not holding a spent casing up to the breech face.
i said i had not worked on that before, but when i got home, i checked on how to tune and adjust them. Wilson had what appeared to be a super easy way to bend them.
is this something some of you guys have/had done before?
he really does not want to send it to SA if he can avoid to do so, or the local gunsmith, which isn't very local to him, and IF i can help him out, he'd appreciate that, as all he does is clean and lube, he's not "mechanically inclined" like some of us here.
thanks in advance to all that advise/help.
he asked me, if i knew how to fix this, i looked and could see where the extractor (internal by the way) was not holding a spent casing up to the breech face.
i said i had not worked on that before, but when i got home, i checked on how to tune and adjust them. Wilson had what appeared to be a super easy way to bend them.
is this something some of you guys have/had done before?
he really does not want to send it to SA if he can avoid to do so, or the local gunsmith, which isn't very local to him, and IF i can help him out, he'd appreciate that, as all he does is clean and lube, he's not "mechanically inclined" like some of us here.
thanks in advance to all that advise/help.