A couple years ago I purchased a para 1911 in .45. The first range trip ended after about fifty rounds when the slide started binding up. On disassembly, I discovered that the ejector was rising out of the frame and contacting the slide.
I tried another ejector because the original seemed to have a poor cut to accept the roll pin which I believed caused the problem, and after a few range trips the ejector appeared to rise but I had no issues in a couple hundred rounds until today shooting three gun. I purposely did not clean it in the last two hundred rounds or so in order to test the function due to the ejector.
After cleaning, the slide works as easily as it should, no binding. This leads me to believe that the ejector is not continuing to rise, but the amount it has risen has tightened the tolerance to an unacceptable point.
My conclusion is that the hole for the roll pin to secure the ejector may be slightly off. My question for the 1911 gurus is would it be prudent to slowly take a small amount of material off the top of the ejector to open up the tolerance? If not, what courses of action remain to fix a misplaced hole in the frame itself?
Due to deployments and moves I have troubleshot this on my own and have not involved para yet. So my next question is for anyone who has experience with para customer service. What have been your experiences?
Sorry for the wordy post and thanks in advance for the help.
I just measured it and the ejector has risen .023".
I tried another ejector because the original seemed to have a poor cut to accept the roll pin which I believed caused the problem, and after a few range trips the ejector appeared to rise but I had no issues in a couple hundred rounds until today shooting three gun. I purposely did not clean it in the last two hundred rounds or so in order to test the function due to the ejector.
After cleaning, the slide works as easily as it should, no binding. This leads me to believe that the ejector is not continuing to rise, but the amount it has risen has tightened the tolerance to an unacceptable point.
My conclusion is that the hole for the roll pin to secure the ejector may be slightly off. My question for the 1911 gurus is would it be prudent to slowly take a small amount of material off the top of the ejector to open up the tolerance? If not, what courses of action remain to fix a misplaced hole in the frame itself?
Due to deployments and moves I have troubleshot this on my own and have not involved para yet. So my next question is for anyone who has experience with para customer service. What have been your experiences?
Sorry for the wordy post and thanks in advance for the help.
I just measured it and the ejector has risen .023".
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