jrhines
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This was my Spring project. A client came in with her deceased Dad's Colt 1911, vintage 1947. He was a Navel aviator and carried the pistol in his career. He kept it and had it chromed (Oh well, it's his pistol) and passed it on to his daughter, who uses it to shoot pins. She brought it to me for a detail strip & lube and I told her that if she wanted to continue to shoot it, let me remove anything that might be worn or overdue and rebuild the gun with new parts. She wanted no changes to the frame, slide, sights or grips, and all parts to be retained so the gun could be returned to "Dad's specs". I installed a Kart NM barrel & bushing, Caspian hammer, trigger & sear, and replaced the grip safety with a beavertail model. New FP and heavy spring, Sprinco Recoil reducer, Ed Brown slide stop pin, EGW replacement pin set and FP stop. Lastly, I installed a Wolff 16.5 lb variable recoil spring. I set the trigger up to just under 3 lbs with about .040" of overtravel. Fitted up 3 new WC mags and ran about 200 rounds through it for break-in, no problems. Good for another 60 years... The trigger profile shows the trigger as it came to me (top, dark trace), and as I left it (lower, light trace). The verticle axis is in lbs. and the horizontal axis is in inches (full scale is 1/10 inch.