OMG - First Cleaning of 1911

[twitchyfinger]

Slide stops DO NOT ROTATE INTO PLACE. They should snap straight in. Occasionally with some colorful adjectives.

LMAO! Yeah ever since my first try I have never had a problem with installing one without putting a mark on my polished stainless 1911.

Ran across over on 1911.org and thought it was pretty cool idea. Here's a simple modification, done at Nighthawk and by others, on the slide stop that doesn't affect normal function but can preclude the "Idiot Scratch" upon reassembly. It's readily done with a needle file.

[wyzardd]

Dagnabbit, now I feel an urge to go fiddle with one. No good ever comes of such behavior, I'll decide to "fix" something that's not broken or something...
But they are due for an oil change!

[twitchyfinger]

Dagnabbit, now I feel an urge to go fiddle with one. No good ever comes of such behavior

I'm going to have to disagree with you one on that one. If you are not working on a $1k+ pistol or something the education and what you can learn by "doing" is well worth the experience to me. My 02 cents anyway.

[wyzardd]

That may be true for normal people, but I start out thinking there's a little too much metal there, or that part is a little rough, and then get frustrated that the whetstone is taking too long, and then I'm on Brownells ordering a new part.

Honestly, that only happened once.

[Troublco]

I got the tool from Brownell's to install the slide stop. Or, I've used the end of a wooden Qtip to do the same thing. But I recall seeing SA Friday mention that if you find a 1911 without the scratch, odds are you'll see a 1911 that hasn't been maintained. I'd tend to agree, it doesn't take much to scratch one that way. One little slip......

Once you're used to a 1911, though, they're not bad at all. It's just getting used to them, like stripping an AR, except a few more tricks and techniques.

[OgenRwot]

Check out youtube.com. I know there are video's on there on how to assemble/disassemble a 1911.

This is what I was gonna say. LOTS of info on there when it comes do take down and reassembly of firearms.