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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Springfield Amoury Toy Broke ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.073134.15624@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:59:40 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Circle 'C' Shellfish Ranch, Shores of the Pacific, California
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- Well,the luster is off a little bit... I was changing the grips
- on my new SA 1911-A1 and the little fittings that the grip screw
- screws into came of of the frame. (It is like a bushing with a
- small threaded hole in the middle for the grip screw and a larger
- set of threads on the outside that screw into the frame. I presume
- this is so that grip screws that strip the threads don't take a
- frame with them ...)
-
- Well, I think, just loose. I'll put them back in. NOT!
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- The 3/16 inch or so diameter holes that the bushings screw into
- are only slightly threaded. It looks to me like the holes are
- slightly too large and the threads were cut in the hole with a
- regular tap, but not enough metal was there to make a decent
- full depth thread.
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- Being VERY CAREFULL, I can get them seated enough to sort of
- hold if I don't tighten the grip screws too much... but this
- is just bogus. It had to be visible to the folks installing the
- grip screw bushings and/or cutting the threads.
-
- Now I have the problm of deciding to ship it back to the factory,
- or just coating the bushing with epoxy, or finding out if there are
- oversized bushings available and taping a larger hole...
-
- Tomorrow I go talk to the GunSmith at the store where it was bought...
-
- --
-
- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
-
- 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
- genius, power and magic in it.' - Goethe
-
- I am not responsible nor is anyone else. Everything is disclaimed.
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