Does a bad extractor improve with break-in?

[Walkalong]

I apparently need to shoot and look at my 1911 more, I thought it was similar to others where it had a spring system that would make the jumping the rim part easier,

While it can take some abuse, it was never designed to slam home on a chambered round. As posted, it was designed for the rim to slide up behind it. Polishing the chamber lightly can't hurt, and may help.

Never be afraid to upgrade to better parts on a 1911.

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Might as well consider a good FPS if you do.

http://www.egwguns.com/firing-pin-stops/

 

[mljdeckard]

I've never doodled with an extractor heretofore. All mine have worked.

My Para P-14 also has an internal extractor.

 

[hdwhit]

Does a bad extractor improve with break-in?

Not in my experience.

 

[Walkalong]

I've never doodled with an extractor heretofore.

They should drop in. I had a Colt Series 80 .38 Super with a 9MM barrel with a crappy extractor. It was loose and clocked all over the place. Cases went all over and sometimes didn't get out of the gun. I wish I remembered which one I purchased (I think it was the Wilson "bulletproof"), but it solved the issue, even with my light load that just dribbles out. I also put in an EGW FPS. Now I have an extractor that stays put and a Colt that extracts beautifully.

 

[rskent]

with a single stack there is not so much variance between top and bottom round as there is with a double stack and the "constriction" where it transitions from double stack to single round.

Ok that makes sense.

 

[mljdeckard]

Ok. So.

(I also took apart my other 1911s to look at the slide guts. The Schwartz safeties were a little bit complicated.)

I did the thing with the shell casing, and it's TIGHT. Like, an empty shell casing won't sit straight in it. So, I tried to slide the extractor out, and it is jammed. I stopped short of getting a hammer and a punch that would make marks so obvious that the RIA customer service guys would insist that I messed with it. (Which I did.) So, I guess I'll finish up 500 rounds this weekend, call RIA, make them fix it, and then buy a better extractor and put it in myself.

 

[rskent]

I did the thing with the shell casing, and it's TIGHT. Like, an empty shell casing won't sit straight in it.

You may very well just have a bunch of crud packed in there.

 

[wally]

Another thing, the extractor "hook" generally hangs-up on the edge of the tunnel when you try to remove it because of the bend that gives it the tension you'd be adjusting. You have to either push the hook at ninety degrees to the extractor (parallel to the breech face) so it can enter the tunnel, or you need to rotate the extractor so the hook faces opposite the cartridge -- this can be difficult if the tunnel is filled with crud. In any event, trying to "punch it out" will damage it for sure!

Returning it to RIA is the wise choice.

 

[mljdeckard]

Shipped it back today. Tick-tock, tick-tock,

 

[mljdeckard]

Ok, so I got it back, they said in a note, that the tension was too lose, not too tight, but....whatever. I took it out and cranked out 50 rounds, and I didn't have any failures to extract, but I did have a few failures to feed. They were mostly with Hornady 115 gr CDs, which are somewhat conical. I will try some 124 gr JHPs, (probably HSTs,) and some non-divoted magazines, and see if that works. If so, I will keep the factory magazine with the TCM barrel and spring.