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After reading the great posts from Hilton, prvt Ryan, and so many others, I
couldn't leave well enough alone.
I fit a new brown fp stop, which was totally painless -- a little filing on the
right side, and then a bit to clear the ejector. I slightly rounded, polished
and tensioned a new Brown extractor (still not sure about the tension, but
I'll test fire it on Friday night), and installed a Brown safety -- following
one of the threads here and a borrowed copy of the Kunhausen book. All that
was easier than I thought. OH, yeah, I replaced the plunger tube spring as
well. The safety is nice and positive...snick, snick.
Next, I had a wild hair to bob/reshape/dehorn the gi hammer that came on the
pistol. I could have just replaced it with the ubiquitous commander style. I
just wanted something different, and I wanted to do it myself. I just cut a
couple of serrations off the back with a hack-saw, and cleaned it up with a
fine file and a couple of stones. I used a soak-in-water slip stone to clean
up the back side. I broke the sharp edges with sandpaper wrapped around a pink
eraser. It actually looks better in person. The bluing is just some cold blue
rubbed on it before I'm going to bed (I know it is blotchy and crappy).
I also polished the breech face, with some 600 grit wrapped around an old
small file, and polished the recoil spring guide rod, which was *really*
rough.
What's next? I had a trigger job done on this pistol about 8 years ago, but
the trigger is the stock gi part. I'm going to install a Nowlin trigger, when
it gets here.
Sorry about the poor quality photo.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Kenneth Bowen on 2001-11-15 03:44 ]</font>
couldn't leave well enough alone.
I fit a new brown fp stop, which was totally painless -- a little filing on the
right side, and then a bit to clear the ejector. I slightly rounded, polished
and tensioned a new Brown extractor (still not sure about the tension, but
I'll test fire it on Friday night), and installed a Brown safety -- following
one of the threads here and a borrowed copy of the Kunhausen book. All that
was easier than I thought. OH, yeah, I replaced the plunger tube spring as
well. The safety is nice and positive...snick, snick.
Next, I had a wild hair to bob/reshape/dehorn the gi hammer that came on the
pistol. I could have just replaced it with the ubiquitous commander style. I
just wanted something different, and I wanted to do it myself. I just cut a
couple of serrations off the back with a hack-saw, and cleaned it up with a
fine file and a couple of stones. I used a soak-in-water slip stone to clean
up the back side. I broke the sharp edges with sandpaper wrapped around a pink
eraser. It actually looks better in person. The bluing is just some cold blue
rubbed on it before I'm going to bed (I know it is blotchy and crappy).
I also polished the breech face, with some 600 grit wrapped around an old
small file, and polished the recoil spring guide rod, which was *really*
rough.
What's next? I had a trigger job done on this pistol about 8 years ago, but
the trigger is the stock gi part. I'm going to install a Nowlin trigger, when
it gets here.
Sorry about the poor quality photo.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Kenneth Bowen on 2001-11-15 03:44 ]</font>