Tamara
Senior Member
...lately:
I've had mine now for about a month, and work proceeds apace, handled by Shannon Jennings in TN.
Good things from previous owners:
1) The cheesy factory plastic MSH had been replaced.
2) The factory guide rod and recoil spring had been replaced.
3) The factory grips had been replaced.
4) The front sight and plunger tube had been restaked.
5) The ramp and throat area had been nicely touched up.
6) The factory grip safety had been replaced with a beavertail unit.
7) The factory extractor, which had the tension of al dente angel hair pasta, is gone and has been replaced with a Wilson unit.
Indifferent things:
1) The factory guide rod had been replaced with a full-length unit, 20# spring and shok-buf. I'm not real cool on FLGR's, normally, but that "Sean" dude (10mm 1911 freak that he is... ) convinced me that they may have a small benefit on Deltas. What the heck, I'll keep it.
2) The wood grips are prettier than the factory rubber ones, but not much. I ended up yanking them and replacing them with the factory units, albeit with the frontstrap part cut off and replaced with skateboard tape.
Less than good things:
1) The replacement MSH was an icky, arched cast "checkered" unit from JoeBobCo's House Of Mainspring Housings. It's gone and replaced with a 30-lpi flat Ed Brown unit.
2) The "drop in" beavertail is ghey, and has to go. I see another Ed Brown part in my future.
3) It needs an extended thumb safety if it's going to go into heavy rotation in my carry battery.
4) The standard Colt sights, while equipped with three dots, are less than optimal. I have a scheme to convert a set of Trijicons into a set of "no-snag" CCW sights that are rounded in the proper direction, yet will still allow using the sights for field-expedient one-hand cocking. Watch this space...
I've had mine now for about a month, and work proceeds apace, handled by Shannon Jennings in TN.
Good things from previous owners:
1) The cheesy factory plastic MSH had been replaced.
2) The factory guide rod and recoil spring had been replaced.
3) The factory grips had been replaced.
4) The front sight and plunger tube had been restaked.
5) The ramp and throat area had been nicely touched up.
6) The factory grip safety had been replaced with a beavertail unit.
7) The factory extractor, which had the tension of al dente angel hair pasta, is gone and has been replaced with a Wilson unit.
Indifferent things:
1) The factory guide rod had been replaced with a full-length unit, 20# spring and shok-buf. I'm not real cool on FLGR's, normally, but that "Sean" dude (10mm 1911 freak that he is... ) convinced me that they may have a small benefit on Deltas. What the heck, I'll keep it.
2) The wood grips are prettier than the factory rubber ones, but not much. I ended up yanking them and replacing them with the factory units, albeit with the frontstrap part cut off and replaced with skateboard tape.
Less than good things:
1) The replacement MSH was an icky, arched cast "checkered" unit from JoeBobCo's House Of Mainspring Housings. It's gone and replaced with a 30-lpi flat Ed Brown unit.
2) The "drop in" beavertail is ghey, and has to go. I see another Ed Brown part in my future.
3) It needs an extended thumb safety if it's going to go into heavy rotation in my carry battery.
4) The standard Colt sights, while equipped with three dots, are less than optimal. I have a scheme to convert a set of Trijicons into a set of "no-snag" CCW sights that are rounded in the proper direction, yet will still allow using the sights for field-expedient one-hand cocking. Watch this space...