Yesterday the neighbor invited me to come over and shoot. I took my 1911 and we shot up about an hour. When I disassembled it for cleaning I got as far as removing the barrell. No go. I tried everything, turning it, lifting it, no go. Looked at it with a lens, as to clearance, looked okay. Removed the link pin and link, still wouldn't slide out. Finally in frustration I re-assembled it, cleaned the barrell from the muzzle and put it aside. This morning I tried again and could feel tiny (I mean tiny) burrs on the side of the lug.. I used a small warding file and dressed both sides down, then using a piece of dowel as a drift tapped the barrell free. Dressed a little more and I could put the barrell back in with taps with the palm of my hand. What problems would cause this? The barrell lug has always been a snug fit thru the slide but this is the first time it's been this extreme.
Do I have problems?
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1911Tuner
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Snug
Howdy jondar,
Nope. Sounds like you've squashed the bug. That's the SOP for a too-wide lug. Just don't cut so high on the lug that you cut into the radius where it joins the barrel. Other than that...Kudos!
Howdy jondar,
Nope. Sounds like you've squashed the bug. That's the SOP for a too-wide lug. Just don't cut so high on the lug that you cut into the radius where it joins the barrel. Other than that...Kudos!
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Widening
Howdy jondar...You musta been watchin' with bated breath.
If the lug is battered, it will be at the rear face...and if it is, you may have a linkdown/barrel drop timing problem. There will also likely be a little evidence of peening at or around the top of the frame vertical impact surface...where the barrel hits the forward edge of the curved bed. If it was mostly along the front and sides, it was probably a slow accumulation of a burr or burrs that resulted from it being a little too tight to start with, and repeated disassembly/assembly caused the lug to gall a little.
The link pin stickin' out a few thousandths on one side will also hang one up in the slide, but you eliminated that when you punched it out.
Howdy jondar...You musta been watchin' with bated breath.
If the lug is battered, it will be at the rear face...and if it is, you may have a linkdown/barrel drop timing problem. There will also likely be a little evidence of peening at or around the top of the frame vertical impact surface...where the barrel hits the forward edge of the curved bed. If it was mostly along the front and sides, it was probably a slow accumulation of a burr or burrs that resulted from it being a little too tight to start with, and repeated disassembly/assembly caused the lug to gall a little.
The link pin stickin' out a few thousandths on one side will also hang one up in the slide, but you eliminated that when you punched it out.
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