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Re: The Twenty-Year Pistol... .450 SMC 1911 Longslide
« Reply #50 on: February 02, 2025, 10:55:20 PM »
Now you're getting somewhere.
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Re: The Twenty-Year Pistol... .450 SMC 1911 Longslide
« Reply #51 on: February 03, 2025, 02:09:12 PM »
And having achieved full slide travel even if it took hammers to do it, now the nightmare begins.

Any advice on working the barrel lugs when all you have is hand files?
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Re: The Twenty-Year Pistol... .450 SMC 1911 Longslide
« Reply #52 on: February 04, 2025, 12:16:00 AM »
Do you have files with a cutting edge and a safe edge so you remove metal from one surface only? I bought one a long time ago for filling rear sights. I can open up the width of the notch without messing up the depth.

My only advice is to be careful and take it slow. It's a lot easier to remove more metal than it is to put it back on. And when the lugs fit, you can get a variety of different length barrel links to get a tight, consistent lockup. But I bought a Dwyer Group Gripper instead. I saw a hand tool for scraping away metal between the lugs in a slide a long time ago. A carbide blade maybe, but it was way too long ago to remember. That's all beyond my area of expertise.
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Re: The Twenty-Year Pistol... .450 SMC 1911 Longslide
« Reply #53 on: February 05, 2025, 10:39:00 AM »
Yup, I have the Brownells one that has a safe edge, a cutting edge, and the flats are split in half safe/cutting to oppose the adjacent edge.

Also working with an EGW set of five different-size links. I'll worry about them when the barrel freely moves in and out of lockup in the dismounted slide. :)
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Re: The Twenty-Year Pistol... .450 SMC 1911 Longslide
« Reply #54 on: February 05, 2025, 09:34:22 PM »
Sounds good, DB.
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Re: The Twenty-Year Pistol... .450 SMC 1911 Longslide
« Reply #55 on: Today at 07:56:25 AM »
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Re: The Twenty-Year Pistol... .450 SMC 1911 Longslide
« Reply #55 on: February 06, 2025, 04:23:55 PM »
It's not the friction-free "glass smooth" I want, but with a section of dowel rod as a temporary link-pin I have the right link dialed in and the barrel cycles between full linkup and linkdown.

Gonna try to clean it up and polish internals a little more, and see if I can figure out what's binding at maximum rearward travel occasionally Then get the ignition system ordered after I pay down some bills...
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Re: The Twenty-Year Pistol... .450 SMC 1911 Longslide
« Reply #56 on: February 08, 2025, 02:35:23 PM »
Paying bills sucks. I've been buying gun parts a little at a time in between bills, for 3-4 years I guess. I've been working on several things at a time this week, but when I'm done with everything my 20" AR will be complete, and my paintball marker will be fixed again.
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Re: The Twenty-Year Pistol... .450 SMC 1911 Longslide
« Reply #57 on: Yesterday at 07:43:09 AM »
Yeah... it gets even worse when you have to balance billable hours with live-in care for a parent who has the attitude of "I brought you into this world, I paid your way through college, until I'm in the dirt I OWN YOUR ASS." (How do I balance it? I have a huge L-shaped desk that's both my computer workstation and hand-tools workbench wrapped around the sofa so while I'm stuck waiting for the Ill Tempered Mutant Landcrab's beck and call I'm working with either digital files or physical ones. I wouldn't say she's as morbidly-obese immobile as "Pearl" in the first Blade movie but it's not for lack of trying... under these conditions I consider getting myself back under 210 even with the extra-calories winter diet an accomplishment.)

Next stage, I'm thinking install mag catch and see if I can get feed. So far my Wilson ETM's aren't playing well even downloaded from 10 to 8... hoping I didn't take too much off decking the top of the frame.
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