![]() ![]() I had a serious WTF do I do moment? Under no circumstance was I going to ask my wife to come help me □ A second set of hands would have done the trick for sure but I needed to figure out a quick and dirty way to do it myself. ![]() With my carpal tunnel, I could not compress the spring enough to reinsert the pin. The recoil springs for a 10mm start at 16 pounds and are more likely to be 20-24 pounds. In my case, I haven’t launched the reverse plug yet but I did release the tension to see how it was made. The first and most difficult one is putting the ignition system back together. Yeah, you may be laughing now but wait until you hear that “tick” sound of a part landing on the other side of a congested (fancy way of saying “messy”) shop. One of the reasons I wrote my own guide to detail-stripping a 1911 is because all the others tended to get lazy at this point and say, 'reassembly is disassembly in reverse.' This is true enough, but there are a few gotchas that need to be kept in mind. I vaguely remember losing one at point.īig word of advice, if you are working on a spring loaded part, do it in a place were you can find the parts if you lose control. Well, that’s not exact true, I did find an AR buffer detent in the tool caddy of my ShopVac last week. ![]() I can’t tell you how many parts I have lost control of and heard a faint “tick” sound as said part lands on the other side of my shop never to be seen again. This kind of stuff happens to me way more than I care to admit. Boy, that sure is nice and neat isn’t it?įolks, there are a million and one reasons why that pin can get knocked out of the hole and the reverse plus is going to come flying off at the speed of light. ![]()
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