Well, I suppose it depends on your attitude toward your tools. I take care of mine, and in return, they take care of me. I avoid using them in ways that will abuse them and I clean them up and lubricate them if needed before I put them away in their proper places.
How does he push the safety up with the slide back to the point where you can line up the slide stop assembly notch?
Like I said, I'm fuzzy on how he does it, but he does. I think you push the slide stop most of the way in with the slide forward and the safety up, then once it's started you flip the safety down and move the slide back to the alignment notch. Like I said, I just push the thing straight in.
If you're referring to my post, then you have it backwards. Engaging the thumb safety takes the pressure off the spring, so it isn't as hard to jam the slide stop in at the other end.
Maybe Im confused. The spring involved here has a plunger at both ends, one for the safety, one for the slide stop. Its the same spring for both.
The idiot scratch says the person who assembled it doesn't know what they're doing, and if they don't know how that one part goes in, what other parts (that you can't see) are similarly installed wrong?
I spent a decade as a tanker carrying 1911s on a couple of continents. I've used them as hammers and as last ditch, get-off-my-back-deck tools. Kept them as clean and as well oiled as possible given the circumstances. All of our 1911s were ugly rattle traps. They were provided by the tax payers so we didn't go out of our way to baby them. We had more important things occupying our time.
