saltydog452
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Rec'd a Fred Kart barrel for the Nork yesterday evening. This morning after the necessary caffene infusion, I tried to walk through the instructions provided by Mr. Kart.
His instructions, like most instructions, assumes that the reader is at least 'conversational' with the terms and that the reader is following the same train of logic as the writer. That ain't exactly true.
Suggestions as to fiting the barrel bushing were noticably missing. Following 'search' threads here on THR, I found lots of comments regarding fitting barrel to bushing, but not anything that I could find regarding fitting a bushing with a larger OD than the ID on the slide.
I've brought the fitting pads down to where there is only .025 left. The barrel is no closer to starting to approach lock up as when I started. I'm kinda confused as to just when I should start fitting on the barrel hood. If the hood is long, no matter how much the fitting pads are reduced, it would seem that the longer length of the hood would prevent the barrel from STARTING to get in lockup.
So, do you file a bit on the pads, then file a bit on the hood?
salty.
His instructions, like most instructions, assumes that the reader is at least 'conversational' with the terms and that the reader is following the same train of logic as the writer. That ain't exactly true.
Suggestions as to fiting the barrel bushing were noticably missing. Following 'search' threads here on THR, I found lots of comments regarding fitting barrel to bushing, but not anything that I could find regarding fitting a bushing with a larger OD than the ID on the slide.
I've brought the fitting pads down to where there is only .025 left. The barrel is no closer to starting to approach lock up as when I started. I'm kinda confused as to just when I should start fitting on the barrel hood. If the hood is long, no matter how much the fitting pads are reduced, it would seem that the longer length of the hood would prevent the barrel from STARTING to get in lockup.
So, do you file a bit on the pads, then file a bit on the hood?
salty.